can’t even search anymore. WTF!
just to check this, I literally saved a document named it, copied and paste the exact name and paste it into the search bar and nothing came up. I don’t know what’s wrong with it but it’s absolute garbage now and Apple doesn’t care because they have already made their trillions of dollars.
Not opening
The app doesn’t open
Download
It randomly deletes the covers of me downloads
I hate u
It won’t let me download it
Most Improved Award ⭐️
App is now great, haven't had many problems with in the past while.
Old Review:
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.
Old Review:
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.
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