iPhone Files app is GREAT when you know how to use it! (full tutorial + iOS 18) 

What an amazing life-hack that PDF page(s) delete 👍 Thx for sharing 🙏

Yes, recents shows all recent files from all sources - I just verified since I use Google Drive with Files.

Only the items in “On My iPhone” are always in the phone’s storage. Items in other locations like “iCloud Drive” are stored in the cloud and may only be in iPhone storage temporarily. So if you need more space on your phone you should copy or move anything in “On My iPhone” to a cloud location such as “iCloud Drive”, before you delete it from “On My iPhone”.

I’ve set my iPhone and iPad download folders to be saved in iCloud and not on the device so I have one synced downloads folder for iMac, iPhone and iPad.

Thank you very much!

Thank you! And they're Genelec 8010s. Oldest items in my entire setup, owned them for around 10 years now, and they sound as good as they did the day I first plugged them in.

@@jojolerigolo one for the iCloud downloads and the other for the iPhone’s local storage. Edit: the third one is not downloads folder as far as I know. I assume you are referring to the ‘Recents’ section. Which does what it says.

Rename the Download Folder to Local Download or your own name choice

True, although the ability to lock apps is coming in iOS 18, due out in September.

@@ProperHonestTech Yeah, I’m just hoping that app will be included as all apps won’t be lockable. I haven’t found anyone who knows for sure if the Files App will be included and able to be locked. Something Apple should have done way back when they made the Notes App. lockable.

Just tested it on the beta - Yes, it can be locked to Face or Touch ID.

@@ProperHonestTech That’s awesome! Thanks for taking the time to check that out. I appreciate it😀

I use an M1 MacBook Pro for work and a (yuck) Intel based MacBook Pro for personal use.

Colloquially one could say, attempting to understand Apple's apps is like trying to understand a woman's mind.... More moody and emotional than logical.

I'm an "Apple shill" because I didn't mention Amazon and Microsoft (whilst also mentioning Google, Dropbox and Box)? Nope, I'm looking for the logic in your comment, but just can't find it...

@@ProperHonestTech To be clear; I’ve loved a lot of your videos. I’ve picked up a ton of tips. But to be clear, the vast, VAST majority of enterprise tier organisations make use of M365. To ignore that is questionable. In and of itself is somewhat innocuous and acceptable. To go on to promote / advocate for the files app (admittedly you aren’t saying it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but conversely you aren’t giving it the “it’s actually dire” treatment it deserves - yes, it deserves that assessment), that leads any critical viewer - and I use “critical” in its most constructive sense - to believe that you are in the “Apple can do no wrong” camp. That may well be inaccurate, and I accept that. But even the most ardent Apple fan can (arguably should) be calling them out on what is frankly a substandard solution to a long known, well understood problem. File management is critical in many, possibly most, business work flows. I wouldn’t give up my Apple devices unless I had a gun pointed to my head, but the file management options in iOS, iPadOS and (to a slightly lesser extent) MacOS are frankly inferior to any alternative you care to mention. You may justifiably claim to be calling out the positives that do exist - and that’s fine, laudable even. But to not call out the fact that the overall solution is dire…that’s what generates the “shill” vibes for me at least. I don’t wish you harm, discomfort or any form of ill. I really don’t. You seem like a top bloke doing his best to make a living on RU-vid. And more power to you that you can. I genuinely wish you well. But this video and its overriding positivity while excluding the main Apple competition from your comments leads me to believe that you are overly focused on promoting Apple, its ecosystem and downplaying the primary competition - inadvertently or not is up for debate. Dropbox is NOT (wish I could underline that) a competitor to Apple in a meaningful way.

Honestly. Leading with, “The iOS Files App experience is dire, but here are some ways to make it tolerable”, would be more than fine. I dislike Android intensely. But I would take the file management experience in Android over the current shambles in Apple’s mobile OSs - arguably over the Mac’s - any day. The vibe feels disingenuous, that’s all.

I hope I’ve clarified where I’m coming from to acceptable level and you can take the comments in the spirit that they’re intended. As a father to a young family - as you’ve mentioned you are - again, I wish you nothing but the best. I just hope that you can temper your videos to acknowledge that the experience that the users of these operating systems / applications are sub-par.

If you've appreciated my content in the past, perhaps don't begin your comment by calling me a 'shill'. You lose my respect immediately with a comment like that. You don't know me, and you're also ignoring the many, many times where I call Apple out for mistakes I believe they've made. Secondly, you seem to have totally misunderstood the purpose of the video. If the video were titled 'An honest review of the iPhone Files App', I'd accept your criticism. But it's not, it's a tutorial. It's designed to show people how to get the most out of the app that we have. Thankfully, it appears the majority of viewers have understood this. I'm not saying that your criticisms of the app are wrong, unfair or invalid - I'm saying that pointing the finger at me and being angry that I didn't add those criticisms to a tutorial video is misdirected anger.