Files

Files

Utilities
68 reviews
⭐️3.0 / 5
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📦w/o updates
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🗣❌ unsupported
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All Versions of Files

1.4

September 16, 2020

Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements

1.3.3

September 19, 2019

Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements

1.3.2

January 11, 2019

Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements

1.3.1

September 17, 2018

Bug fixes.

1.2.1

September 15, 2017

Bug fixes

1.0

June 5, 2017

Bug fixes

0.1

May 17, 2017

Price History of Files

Description of Files

Access and organize your files no matter where they’re located — on your device, in the cloud, on an external drive or file server— with Files. The Recents view displays the files you’ve been working on lately in high-resolution thumbnails. Use the powerful Browse view to navigate folders, organize your files with tags, move files between folders, and search. Files also makes it easy to access iCloud Drive and third-party cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive. Features • Press the Files icon in the Dock or Home screen to quickly open a file from anywhere • Connect an external drive or SD card to your device to access the files • Connect to a file server at work or a home PC using SMB from Files • Use tags to organize files stored with different cloud providers and across different apps. • Pin your favorite folders in Browse view for quick access to the ones you use most. • Give people access to any file stored in iCloud Drive by sharing a link from the Files app • Drag and drop to select files and organize them into folders
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Files: FAQ

Is there an iPad version available for Files?

Yes, you can use the Files app on iPad devices.
Apple Inc. is the creator of the Files app.
The Files app currently supports iOS 11.0 or later.
Currently, the Files app has a user rating of 3.0 } and receives mild reviews.
The App Genre Of The Files App Is Utilities.
1.4 is the most recent version of Files.
The date of the latest Files update is June 30, 2024.
Files became publicly available on February 6, 2023.
The content advisory rating for the Files app is Apple Inc..
Files is now available to use in Arabic, Catalan, Croatian and 30 more.
No, Files is not on Apple Arcade.
No, Files does not feature in-app purchases for users.
Certainly! Files is fully compatible with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of Files

  • Shameful

    Apple should change their motto: “single-handedly keeping Google in business.” This app is absolutely useless. Remember the old “there’s an app for that” ads in the early iPhone days? Well, that’s only relevant if you don’t want to store and retrieve files on this device. Steve Jobs could solve our energy needs if someone would hook up a generator to his corpse as it rolls in his grave. The Apple brand quality has become an echo lost in time. Now we have the same useless outsourced garbage software that other brands are known for. The “solutions” offered up to address this defective app are just as absurd as the app, itself. Uninstall / reinstall? Tried that. Useless. Airplane mode? No help. Reboot? Yeah, take a number, that’s been tried too. Un-sync iCloud? First thing I did. This software is supposed to be very basic and fundamental. They couldn’t even get the UX right. And now it doesn’t work at all. What happened to “It just works?” Apple: “It just fails”
    BadWolf2112BadWolf2112

  • Morbidly Unstable

    Crashes half the time I use it, requiring me to restart my whole phone just to get it to work again. Critically, all file management even within other apps is broken when files crashes so I have to restart my phone to do much of anything at all.

    Search is also pretty bad, sometimes when you search a substring of the name of a file, including correct capitalization, nothing shows up.

    Additionally, it is missing many important file management features like "keep downloaded to device" for icloud drive. Many file attributes are just not displayed when you get info on a file. There is no way to show hidden files (dotfiles).

    While you _technically can_ open, say, a .mkv file in VLC from the files app (the files app doesn't support playback of many common video formats), you have to go through the share sheet, which makes no sense because i am just viewing the file and not sharing it. This is one of the many ways that the files app is awkward to use even besides the missing features and frequent instability.

    These issues have existed for quite a while now so in my opinion they have no excuse for not fixing them. Apple has the resources to do so, they have just chosen not to.
    greg2.71828greg2.71828

  • One of the Worst Software Experiences Ever. Not Just from Apple.

    Before I begin, I just want to state that I say this from a place of hope that Apple will address these issues in future updates. I have seen iPadOS progress in the past few years and, hopefully, this slow but necessary progress and evolution will continue.

    That being said…

    The Files app on iPad is quite frankly one of the most frustrating experiences I have ever had. To use this app to transfer, access, download, upload, and even export to is painful. I have lost footage, I have lost projects, I have had to cancel projects that I have wanted to work on, and I have never in my three years as a college student experienced something as excruciating as using the Files app on a daily basis.

    I say this as someone who has to deal with ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD.

    The access of servers on Files is broken. Using this to access servers, even when connected directly to it via a cable, is frustrating to be kind.

    Having to access RAW files is painful. The fact that iPads are said to be video editing dreams by some, yet some file formats still cannot be supported WHATSOEVER, drives me insane.

    The UI is also trash, I get confused as to where things are located and what specific area it is in. This is especially painful considering file management is somewhat good on macOS, but here it feels like Apple has sent me to the dark ages when the Black Plague existed. Everything feels like a mess.
    Matthew falletichMatthew falletich
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