You can’t search subfolders in iPadOS. Neither can you search folder names. It’s unusable for anything other than moving files around and watching Netflix and RU-vid
Hi! The lack of eject button HAS caused issues for me. iPadOS has corrupted one of my hard drives, which wouldn't mount anywhere and made Macs crash systematically. The solution was to use HFS+ on a windows computer (not a virtual machine because... the Mac would crash 🙃) and I recovered the drive (after a year of thinking all my projects on it were gone!) Clearly, it seems to be exception to the rule and there surely factors that played in that I don't fully understand (was I on a beta? Was it the format of the drive? A specific app?) I just wanted to bring some nuance to the "ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE" argument in your video. 💛
You can’t search subfolders in iPadOS, neither can you search folder names. It’s unusable for anything other than moving files around and watching Netflix and RU-vid.
I really hope we see some big improvements with file management on the iPad in the next version of iPadOS. I also really wish tags worked with cloud services such as Dropbox. If we could just get to where we could keep the files we choose on our iPads without any of Apple algorithms, that would be magic!
Absolutely hate the Files app. It’s horrendous. I have been using Documents by Readdle for years and well before Files was released. Documents is powerful and exactly how a file management system should be.
I’m currently facing an issue with the safari downloads .it downloads in iCloud I try to change to download on my iPad storage but it automatically switches to iCloud. I talked to customer support of Apple twice but 1st said it’s a bug and 2nd said it’s a new feature. Can you please tell me if you are also facing the same issue after iPadOS 17.4.1 . If not, do you have any solution for it .
Hi Christopher. Thanks very much for this Files App tutorial I learned a lot on here. One thing I noticed , when I tired to change my default downloads location to my one drive, it would not let me choose that location. This happened with Google drive as well. It did allow me to choose iCloud though. Is this an apple thing where it only wants you to choose iCloud ? Anyways, thanks . Rob
Chris, thanks for a great video. Do you find any benefit to scanning docs into files vs. notes? I’m currently organizing all of my instruction manuals, downloading the digital versions. Trying to figure out if I should leave them in the files app or organize them in notes.. thanks.
Using Files app on my iPad Pro M1 11" is the worst experience I have ever had... iPadOS 16 is Ok, but since I updated to iPadOSs 17, my pride drops... - Randomly freezing: Sometimes, it just freezes, can't do anything, rotating just make it glitch. Force closing the app become more frequent after 17.2, 17.3, and now 17.4.1. - File not found: Oh dear... After 17.3 update, I start getting this weird problem. All the files just disappear. "On my iPad" is no longer there. It's just like unplug an external hard drive while browsing the files. And all I can do is restart my iPad to get it back to normal (for a short time)
@@joselucnico I did. But still those bugs. I use my iPad for exclusive taskes, which cause a lot of time to setup. So I'm not happy if any annual OS update requires resetting the whole machine...
@@joselucnico LOL yesterday I went to Apple Store. And boom, that staff guy in iPad zone, uses same model like me and he got the bugs too. He said many guests mention the bugs, he thought it's nothing to worry til he got it himself :))
Hi Chris, Does your iPad sometimes freeze? I now experience the frozen iPad again. My M2 iPad pro freezes when I open Lumafusion to edit some videos this morning. What I think I need to do is to restart it or charge it again even though the battery is full. Is there any other way to fix this? I searched for support from Apple in my country, but I think I should ask other users instead. Thank you in advance for any response. And thanks for your many important videos about iPad.
Great video. Q: I’m about to go travelling so want to keep some files Both in iCloud and on device. If i drag and drop to ‘On My iPad’ folder will it move them out of iCloud? (I’d prefer to keep in both. So helpful, thanks Chris😊
I love using the Files app but when I'm accessing my OneDrive documents through the Files app, it will add some numbers to the back of my file names (presumably the date the file was modified). This only happens if I move documents in/out/around my OneDrive folders through the app, or if I make some edits to the documents like opening the PDF or Word files. It does not happen to the files I have stored locally or on my iCloud Drive. Anyone knows how to prevent this from happening? The only workaround I have for this is to use the OneDrive native app on iPad but I'd much rather only have to stick to one file management app.
Thanks for this video. Is there a reason Files renames any folder I try to call Desktop or Documents to untitled or what ever the old folder name was. Only for these 2 names
I’m pretty sure it’s because on a Mac, when you allow the Desktop and Documents folders to be synced to iCloud, those names are taken. I put a space after the “Documents” text and then removed the space, that seemed to do the trick
I have a shortcut for Google drive. And it doesn't disappear like other shortcuts do. I know you will need Chrome installed. As I recall, it was added as a network server. But I can report that it works.
It is the worst iPad app made by apple. It is glitchy and crashes VERY often. iPad os 18 must fix the Files app it is the essential piece of software like the gallery app.
Yeah, you can search subfolders or even folder names. Anyone who has actually used computers will find it for kids. It’s just useful for Netflix and RU-vid and simple moving files around. Forget search.
@@WeberBaker personally I agree with the dude too. Too buggy. Right now when I open it its a black screen. Like what? I have to restart iPad for it to open again
