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Micah Sargent (0:00)
Coming up on Hands on Mac, let's take a look at the files app for iOS and iPados. Stay tuned.
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Micah Sargent (2:08)
Podcasts you love from people you trust. This is Twit. Hello and welcome to Hands on Mac. I'm Micah Sargent and today I want to talk about a powerful application that's a finder on Mac os, but for your iPhone and your iPad. You may have heard about the Files app. Maybe you've even opened something within the Files app. But I want to give you an understanding of what is possible with the Files app on these devices. So here we are on iOS and I should note that you can also access this app from your iPad as well on iPadOS, but let's take a look at things from here. So first and foremost, we will launch the Files app by looking for it, by swiping down to look for it. And you will probably see the Recents page when you first open it up. At the bottom of the screen you'll find Recents, which shows you the recent files that you've interacted with the Shared option, which shows you stuff that you've shared with other people. And of note, if you create a family folder, then people who are family members will be able to access that folder if you have an Apple family. And then last but not least is Browse, which lets you actually look through your documents. And by default when you choose the Browse tab, it's going to show you the icloud Drive section. Now let's go back to recents because you're probably knowing that if you've tuned in before my I can't help but be drawn to the top right corner because it's my favorite button. The More button. If we tap on the three dots in the top right corner, you'll see some options here. Select is first. Select lets you choose multiple files. You'll see a circle appear over each of those file icons, giving you the ability to select multiple files at once that you can interact with. It'll show you a count up at the top you can choose to select all, and it also pops up four squares in the top right corner as well. This lets you switch how these icons are being viewed as icons or instead as a list. You can also change how it's sorted by name, by kind, by date, by size, by tags. And there are also View options which lets you choose how they're sorted by default. If they're grouped in a certain way, like by kind for example, if they are, whether you go with an icon and a list size as the default, which is kind of larger or compact, which makes them smaller and then if you will show all file name extensions. So seeing at the end what type of file it is. Now again selecting Multiple is going to let you at the bottom use the share sheet, move them into a folder, delete them, or hitting the More button down here lets you copy these items, add tags to them, lets you choose to keep them downloaded or remove the download and we'll talk about but I'm going to go ahead and tap done and immediately you'll notice that that takes away the four squares if we tap that More button again. Our next option is Scan Documents and then Connect to Server. We'll take a look at Connect to Server in a minute and Scan Documents as well because I want to move down to the rest of the list, which is a little bit more of what we saw with those four squares. We can choose to display these items as icons, as a list, and then also sort them based on name, kind, date, size, tags, et cetera. Let's take a look at what Scan Documents does before we move on. If I tap on Scan Documents, it pulls open the built in scanning functionality for your iPhone or your iPad. So I have a document here. It's a manual from Ring and if I hold over the top, it's going to automatically scan that page and then I can have it scan the next page. Doing this here with one hand is a little difficult, but I think we can pull it off. Let's see here. And we're just going to go with it being a two page document. Now you'll see. Whoops. Okay, that's kind of tough. But if you're watching this as opposed to listening to it, you will see. But even if you are trying this just from the audio, you'll see a blue rectangle appear over the file and that is showing you the actual detection of the edges of this document. Now that is because I have auto selected in the top right corner. You can also choose Manual which will let you snap the photo to actually gather that image as a scan. We can set up filters so whether it's color, grayscale, black and white, or a full on photo. And we can change whether the flash is on or off. Let's say this was a two page document. I can quickly look at the two parts of it that I've seen thus far. I'll tap on Done and choose Save in the bottom right hand corner. And then it says okay, great. Where do you want to save it? I'm going to choose Documents and I'm going to call it Ring Manual because that is what it is. And choose Save. And now it automatically creates a PDF for me of this document. So I was able to capture that very easily. That is what the Scan Document functionality does in the top right corner. Now again, in shared, if I were to take a folder and share it with other people, those would show up here and we'll take a look at that in a moment. Lastly, browse now in the Browse tab. By default it's going to show you your icloud drive. In it, you are likely to find desktop documents downloads because those are equivalent to the desktop documents and downloads folders on your Mac. But then also you will see folders with app icons on them. Those are the app icons for apps on your phone, your iPad, your Mac that actually store their files in these special folders. So if I choose Keynote, we've created two presentations in the past. Whenever I've done Hands on Mac, those will show up here. So you're always able to access them. And in fact, if you are in Keynote and you go to open a document, it's coming from this folder if it's saved online. What I want to point you to though is in the top left corner of this icloud drive page there's a browse option and we'll take a look.