Unlock the Secrets of the Files App: 10 Pro Tips for Apples Insanely Powerful Program 

Thanks so much. Great to hear you learned a ton!

Thank you, I will

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With Dropbox you can copy the link from the Files app via context menu (long press on file). Unfortunately, not with Google Drive and OneDrive, there you must jump into the app. There is not a predefined sticker button for PDFs in the Markup section of the Files app, but you can add (via the + icon in the markup palette) a square shape and add text to it. You can then edit the color (i.e. use the traditional yellow or any other color) as well as change border size and color and even make the fill color opaque. Text size, font and formatting can be changed by selecting the text and then through the Aa icon in floating text tool bar at the bottom. You can then copy that and paste it to create an identical look for all your „stickies“.

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The magnifying glass was retired (unfortunately) throughout all apps with the new pencil palette. I have no problems scrolling through PDFs using iOS17 though. Copying and moving a file works differently if you move it between file providers. If you move your file within the same file provider (i.e. within iCloud) moving should work, however if you move from iCloud to Dropbox or Google Drive, then a copy happens, instead of a move. It is the same like in Apple Mail if you want to move say mails between two separate Exchange accounts (not working).

Yes, I understand, that from Dropbox files are copied, but files are also copied when moving from iCloud drive to local storage. So it seems always to copy when not moved from the same root. What I meant about the PDF is, that rearanging a page is only possible, when it is not already seletect, thus not showing the 3 dots. A bit stranage but that‘s at least how it looks on my iPad. After I figured this out, rearanging works fine :-)

That is exactly how it works.

While there is no such functionality (and it would be great to have this), Downloading the folders I need before a trip actually always worked for me. But, of course I have enough space on my device that it rarely needs to offload anything due to space constraints.

I never have a Problem with lag in the Files app. I use some very large PDFs - for instance complete stage plays, where I do lots of markup with the Files app. Are you really talking about the Files app? How do you know about 20% zoom? There is no percent indicator in the Files app.