Or anywhere in the Files app, for that matter, but the thing is, I’ve got gigabytes, possibly terabytes, of data in iCloud. Now, I could just as well have saved that exported file (step 4) to, say, the Downloads folder in the Files app.
Thanks to the fact that the Files app support multiple sources, I can just pick Yoink here, and easily pick the file.I pop over to Substack, which I use for the newsletter, and use their interface to pick an image from the Files app.Said export gets shared to Yoink, which sits there in my share sheet.I open the photo in Pixelmator Photo, possibly for touch-ups, but more often to resize and export it in a more web friendly size.I take a photo that I’ll use for an issue of Switch to iPad.I can’t say that it does something crucial that I couldn’t do with the Files app only, but it makes my life so much easier. I’ve been using Yoink, an app available for both iOS/iPadOS and macOS, for the past couple of months, and it’s wonderful. And the Files app has the benefit of being tightly integrated into iPadOS, meaning that it’s easy to, say, upload a file in a web interface from the Downloads folder.ĭoes that mean that there’s no room for file drawer apps anymore? You can easily get to the most recent files added, which means that downloading and/or saving a file of any kind to Files will make it easy to find. I’ve written about that in the past, in one of the earliest issues of the Switch to iPad newsletter ( please subscribe).įast-forward to today, and the Files app will actually do for most people. So, you installed a file drawer app, and shared (using the share sheet) your files to said app, and hoped that whatever app you wanted to move the file to would support importing it. It was a mess, filled with workarounds and the like, before the Files app we have today, but honestly, afterwards too because even though it’s getting better, Files isn’t what it should or could be.
If you wanted to upload an edited image to a web interface, but you had your edited photo in Pixelmator, you were kind of stuck. There was a time when iOS and iPadOS was less evolved, and you needed something commonly called file drawer apps to bounce files around.
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