How To Use The iPhone Files App 

This guy has become my favorite for Mac advice. He answers questions and is extremely knowledgeable. Your video was an answer to prayer! THANK YOU!

The red cursor helps allot. Thank You for keeping your pace at a comprehensible pace. Good video. 👍!

Informative video, Gary. Thanks. I've been using Files for a long time. Watching this confirms that I wasn't doing anything wrong but definitely showed me more things could do (I particularly like all the preview capabilities you alerted me to). Big fan! Please keep it up.

A very useful video tutorial and very informative! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️

Good job with the video. A lot of information packed into a short period. I spent two hours trying to teach the same thing.

Gary goes deeper in the apple ecosystem. You will never get such productivity and better suggestions anywhere on youtube. Thanks gary for making our lives easier.

These are the best Apple Tutorials in the Web. Thank you soooooo much Gary.

Your video was full of information laid out logically. I enjoyed very much and I learned some new things.

Thanks Gary: Very informative video with great tips. I found using the iOS file system as it was designed has been working for me lately. I have completely abandoned the hierarchical, nested folder methods employed by macOS. Fact is iOnly use iOS these days. Letting the iOS mange and organize files via the apps works very well. As you have demonstrated.

You are the best in giving out detailed accurate info ...👍 bless you sir!

The Best of all. The most clear, comprehensive and well-explained video I have ever seen.

Always a great video! Thanks Gary.

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for!

Very informative and useful for me! Thank you 😊

And people say Android is hard to use. Almost 3 years since I moved to ios and i still struggle copying files from one folder to another. I never needed to watch these kind of videos to learn something when I was on Android.

God bless you abundantly Gary for these tons of information you have shared in this video.

This guy is The guy. Thank you for all of your videos!

Gary, as always, you are the man.

This video has helped me a lot… thanks 🙏🏾

Very useful. Thanks Gary!

Fantastic tutorial! Thanks!

Thank you! That was a life saver.

If this keeps up I'll be tech savvy in no time lol. Thanks Gazza.

Thanks! Please, more iPhone and iPad tips!

Would love a 2022 update on understanding and how to use Google Drive! (Just checked out your video from 2012 - MacMost Now 709)

Great review.

Great content Gary thank you 👍🏼

Thank you Sir! 😀

pretty good to know... thanks

Gary - You are amazing!!! Now I know how to use the Files app. Thank you ^n

Very useful, thank you.

Yes! Very useful

thanks Gary for this video on Files app.Been using it but you showed me more functionality than I thought was there.Wondering why dint iPhone just name it Finder app like on Mac? thanks John

Great practical video!

Really very helpful Thanks a lot

Well done and much appreciated

Thank you for the video it was extremely helpful.

Regarding tags, I usually use tag with the folders so I can have same file with maybe 2 or more different tags.

keep up the good work -it helps.

Mad knowledge and schooling! BIG UPS G MONEY

Thank you very much 👍🏻

Another very helpful video. I have one question, how to rename added servers in files app. I have added three servers but it shows them by ip address. Is there a way to change this ip adresses to names? Thank you.

Useful. Thanks.

Good to know. Thank you.

Excellent sir👌

nice job. Useful info for me.

Gonna get the se 3 soon, nice vid idea!

Thanks bunches

Your videos are the best and I never would have survived my switch to Apple products without you. I was watching a video of yours from 2019 and you said you can use Time Machine with a hard drive connected to a router. If you ever do a video about Time Machine again, would it be possible to show how it’s done? I can’t find anything on how it’s done. Look forward to all your videos and thank you for all the help you give ✌️❤️

Clear and understandable presentation. Once again, this is a feature that I should be using more, and now that I have a better understanding of the Files app usage I just may do that.

Gary - useful tips, as always. Thank you. I have a question about the location of a file. When I travel, I like to have a copy of important documents available on my iPhone (passport, vax card, foreign health pass, boarding pass, etc.). I am always concerned that I won't have internet access at a critical time (standing in front of an immigration and customs officer, for instance!), so I always store those copies in the location "on my iPhone". But it would be nice if those same docs were available through the iCloud Drive. Is there a way to force the iPhone to both store a document in your iCloud account, but also have it always available on your iPhone (even when you have no internet access)?

Hello. Is it possible to access any files stored locally on the iPhone when it is plugged into a PC/laptop? I want to copy files from Files->laptop. Thank you.

I’ve been using Files a bit more recently. I have a new iPhone and a new Mac Mini and am excited about keeping orderly and not filling up local storage. That said, I notice that my music files haven’t transferred from the old phone to the new. I’ve been trying to figure out how to use Files to make the transfer. (I think iTunes is gone now - good!) These music files aren’t all purchased through downloads. A lot of them come from CDs (remember those). I have them stored as mp3 (etc) and they are organized into albums (folders) - some “music” content are audiobooks - and I would very much like to figure out how to listen to them on my phone via the Cloud. I hope this is a pertinent question -perhaps I missed an episode in which you address this very thing?

Thank you, I have learned interesting features. I have a request. I used Spotify for several years now, but there are a bug and a lack of features that I find annoying. So I decide to give a try to Apple Music (I used to be a Itunes Power user.) What a disappointment. Smart playlists don't work. For example, I have 602 loved songs, but the loved songs smart playlist has only 179. Some Mac playlists do not appear on my iPhone. Last played and numbers played do not synchronize between iPhone and Mac. The least recently played does not work on the iPhone. The least recently played is the most annoying bug, because the playlist restarts always with the same songs (Spotify does not have the feature neither and it is annoying) A loved song playlist should be standard. I would like to see what you think of it. Thanks,

Sir one related question/observation. Though files shows Google drive on files and enabled, search does not work on iOS 16.2 both in spot light and even within files. You search a file from files - it is not showing. Even when I copy all my drive files into iPhone locally - then file manager show but spot light fails to show. Is it that apple is forcing us to use only iCloud.. or is it some settings issue. Any video link on this topic...? thank you

Hi Gary, Thank you for these very informative videos. I have a problem with my IMac. I bought it from Best Buy and asked them to transfer information from my old computer to the new one. One of their geek squad put his user ID on the I Movie and I can't get into it to make a movie now. Am I going to have to get someone at Apple to change this for me or could I pay someone like PCMatic to go in and help me change it? The guy is no longer with Best Buy.

Awesome！

Great video!! Do you have a Video showing how to store anything to the Files? I am new to IPhone. I switched from Android, which was very easy to do download to files.

Long time fan. Do you have a video on among hyperlinks on iOS? Oddly difficult. I have a few shortcuts but sheesh it’s complicated.

Subbed. Thanks

Gary, the information you give is insanely useful. Be careful or Apple will want to buy your channel!

How do you get back the download folder under favorites once you accidentally deleted “-“ it from the favorites/browse categories tab?

Hi Gary, is there a way to do "OCR ed" PDF search? as you can on a desktop?

Love the content! Question! I am looking to purchase the mini Mac, but I was thought apple was introducing a new model during the recent event or did I mis something? What is your recommendation on which model to purchase in the Mac mini?

If there was ever a time to double “like” a video . . . this would be the one! Beautiful job on this one, Gary!

I’m trying to add google docs to my files app. Any videos on that?

How can macbook access and manage the "Files" on iPhone ? I want to copy and paste files (pdf, txt, ...) between iPhone and Macbook, how can I do it ? "Files" is ok on iPhone, but when iPhone and Macbook connect by cable, I cannot do anything with "Files" even view it.

Is there a way to transfer files from my Windows PC to Files app in the iPhone/iPad? I don't see the Files app on the "file sharing" section on iTunes software too

Do you know the way to clear recently list file, with some sensitive files that i dont to want see those in front recent tab

Great

Gary, thank you for such an informative video. Can you share how you can have an image of your phone on-screen in real-time?

Hi! I don’t see my downloads in the File app, where are they? I changed the location to “my phone” but there are not there either.. thank you so much!

Hi, is it possible to modify any of the Playback settings of the Files app, things like to start the video when you open it and to repeat it? Thanks this is a very informative video!

If you want to transfer large files to one of your Mac’s external drives, you can go into Files -> Shared and connect to your Mac using SMB. Unlike DropBox or some other internet location, you can save things to your Mac’s shared external drives without it being ultimately sent to a cloud location on the internet (or being stored on your local boot drive - which can be of limited size due to the current use of SSDs). This means that for large files like ProRes documents, you can use a Wifi 6 router - I have a Netgear Orbi Wifi 6 mesh with a satellite in my office - to transfer to a shared external drive on my Mac at full Wifi 6 speeds which can approach a gigabit/sec. This is _much_ faster than the USB 2 speeds offered by the lightning port. My Mac’s ethernet port is connected to a LAN port in the office satellite so it gets full gigabit speed to the network, and my iPhone 13 Pro Max connects at Wifi 6 speeds to the satellite’s Wifi 6 network so a copy from the iPhone to the Mac becomes a simple local connection (like two ethernet ports on the same switch, with data never leaving the satellite or having to traverse the mesh network's backhaul). Of course you'll probably never reach that theoretical gigabit/sec speed, but it's still much faster than the USB 2 speed of lightning.

Can You import directly from Files to Itunes? so frustating when working with various os on computer

Is there away to hide recent tap?

Can we search for and remove duplicate files in the file system? in the Files app? and also, I'd like to be able to search for a file type regardless of what folders it's in and easily manipulate them move them but there's no select option when you do a search like that.

Clean and straight to the point. Finally. So many infos. I'm planning to leave GDrive and go with iCloud Drive but... I'm not able to preview videos. Plus: do you think that in the future will be possible to preview Adobe Illustrator (AI) files as in GDrive? Thanks (subscribed!)

Okay, I'm six minutes into this and I came here to see how to use it for the first time. This is my only Apple product. I don't have other files in the cloud or on a Mac. My File folder needs to be set up and this video seems to make the assumption I want to manipulate files (you may have) that exist. So how do I get started?

I need help with trying to get two soundtracks to work on my files app I downloaded them but it won’t work what should I do?

Thank you for helping me out now I know how to use it and now I’m learning so much from you now I’m a new subscriber. I can’t wait to learn more more about your videos ❤😇

I worked for an ad agency in the mid to late 90’s and had just started using a Mac shortly prior to that. One of the managers said the best and fastest thing I could do was learn to use the keyboard and key commands as much as possible. It’s always held true and still does. It’s the fastest thing I could have ever learned. It’s amazing what you can do these days! I’m always learning something new.

Very useful video! I have a question: is it normal that some app (2 app in my case) automatically create folder and files (.realm,.json,.mx) in File? I found two folders (with the App icon) and these kind of files inside

Hey! Nice video, but, the file i want to use looks darkened and it’s not working. i imported it from my gallery. what do i do?

Great vid Gary. Just discovered and subscribed. Do you have any vids on using it as a receipt manager? I need basics as I’m minimally computer savvy!

I have to change my Password all of the time!

Hello . I am a new user of iOS. It was a very useful video - thank you. I do not understand why my photos are not in files app ( like in file manager on android for example) ? Thank you

Gary-I found this video very useful because I have been putting off organizing the files app on my iPhone 13 mini Question for you: I have images in Notes that contain information and data and important information. How can I take those images in notes and put them in my Files App? I didn't see you cover that here but I prefer to have those scans/images in the Files app if possible. Keep up the great work!

Yes that’s all well and good but I want to download or take things off and save them to a thumb drive how does that happen using phone to usb tool as I can’t find any way to do it can you help? Please.

Hi I love your videos, i have a problem, when i want to save video to my gallery from files, it doesnt have the option, i already clicked share, but it doesnt show save video option, it is weird since it is mp4 files, which supposedly can. The reason i want it in my gallery, because the apps cant read it if its on files folder

Being that I have many audio mp3s on my file. How can I get them ² play one after another? w/ out unlocking phone each time one of my audio MP3's stop playing just ² manually press the play button.

i just moved from android to ios and got my stuff transfered but its all not in folders like it was and i literally have thousands idk how to sync it if i can even do that

Is it possible to remove files from the “recents” area on iOS without deleting them?

Is there a method to ‘preview’ or quick view a group of images on a USB Key using IOS? I would like to show them on my Samsung TV.

What do I need to do to make the Files app go to the last selected folder? When I am using it in a DJ app, it defaults to anywhere but!

How to add photos I took to folder . I find difficult to filing related photos into project folder. Thank you

Thank you for your post! I am a musician who wants to view Lead Sheets and music at gigs. I don’t want to depend on the internet to view files. Should I put files “on my phone” so that they’re local? Thx again!

Great video, thanks. How to connect to remote AFP server?

Hey! Anybody wanna help? I just transferred 40 plus Docs from iFiles to USB. Now my PC doesn't read text, and comes out as Mac Text. Any quick fix? Change file type, etc...

Thanks Gary. Do you know why the Files app doesn't require a PIN of Face ID? If someone steals my phone and the screen is not locked, they can easily access files within the Files app.