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  1. K

    Is there an Apple TV app that lets you locally store videos/photos to watch offline?

    I'm talking about an app that is like the "Files app" on iOS, or anything alike. I just have some videos that are on my MacBook that I would like to have stored on my Apple TV to watch them offline without any internet connection at all. I have the 4th Generation Apple TV. Is this possible? If...
  2. W

    Files App crash/won’t complete photo transfer

    Hello, I’m trying to move 2000 photos from the Files app to the Photos camera roll. But the Files app would crash or would actually move pictures over, but stop halfway and never finish. I don’t want connect to my MacBook because I solely want to use iCloud instead. Thanks!
  3. K

    Files App Improvements in iPadOS 18

    Apple didn’t announce any new Files app features, but as we learned last year, many smaller improvements come to iPadOS that aren’t necessarily announced in the keynote. In the Files app, a new option in iCloud Drive allows us to select a file or folder and select an option to “Keep...
    • Kal Madda
    • Thread
    • files files and folders access files app icloud ipad ipad air ipad pro ipados 18
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: iPadOS 18
  4. K

    My indie app FOVER - speed up file movement

    Hi, I'm Kamil Daniel, an indie developer from Poland. I'm happy to introduce you to my app, Fover, designed to redefine file movement. Compared to other apps, Fover offers three new features: * Searching for destination folders on your storage (not just the ones marked as favorites) * Creating...
  5. jlaylor

    Vision Pro - Network speed with a server makes a HUGE difference

    I have been using my Vision Pro for almost a month now, and have submitted multiple bug reports and suggestions to Apple. One of my issues is that I have a large library of movies and TV shows on my server in M4V format which my Apple TVs throughout the home easily and can rapidly access...
  6. C

    How to Remove Offline iCloud Files from Vision Pro

    Hi Folks, Despite my inability to find any files in my iCloud Drive (files app) that are downloaded for offline, the storage on Vision Pro says I have 316gb of downloaded iCloud files taking up space on Vision Pro. I’ve gone through every folder and there are no files downloaded for offline. How...
  7. Boneslasher

    File-based apps broken in iPadOS 17.4.1

    I have been having this kind of issue since Friday (5.April) evening (iPad Pro 2018, 12.9-inch, iPadOS 17.4.1). It all started with the Files app not responding (not showing deleted/updated/downloaded... files), then it propagated to other apps. Every app using iCloud Drive as its base is...
    • Boneslasher
    • Thread
    • files app freeze ipad 12.9 gen 3 ipados 17.4 unresponsive
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: iPadOS 17
  8. K

    External Drive Improvements Coming to Files in iPadOS 17

    I noticed new and improved options for external drives in the Files app on the second developer beta of iPadOS 17. When you right click or hold press a drive in the sidebar of the Files app, the pop-up menu now includes options for “Rename” and “Erase”. Also, under the “Get Info” option, it...
    • Kal Madda
    • Thread
    • external drives files files app ipados 17 new features
    • Replies: 71
    • Forum: iPadOS 17
  9. B

    Other Is iCloud Drive worse than other popular cloud storage service [cellular only]?

    Across multiple iPhones and cellular carriers the iCloud service on the files app is reliably garbage in cellular internet (does not work). What is your take?
    • brizna
    • Thread
    • files app icloud
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: iPhone
  10. M

    I compressed files in iCloud, now my phone has 4gb of Files that were never on my device

    I have put files and such in iCloud Drive but never tried to retrieve them, so I try to and find out you can only download file by file and not even entire folders(wtf). So my work around was to compress the files making it one big file which I could download multiple files on my computer. I...
  11. bitsnbytes

    Shared network storage (Samba) in Files is very unreliable

    I have a laptop (Fedora Linux) which hosts a Samba server connected my local network. However, it seems like successfully connecting to the server is a hit or miss for my iPhone and iPad. A lot of times, Files would just suddenly report that an unknown error has occurred. This usually happens...
    • bitsnbytes
    • Thread
    • files app ios ipados smb
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iOS 15
  12. ThatSomeone

    Files app taking up almost 1GB locally+iCloud backup with no large files to be found

    Around July/August 2019 while I was on vacation, I started getting alerts about my iCloud storage running low. I thought I’d only used around 3.5GB on iCloud so far. But when I checked what could've possibly just started using over a gig of iCloud storage, I saw that my iPad's iCloud backup size...
    • ThatSomeone
    • Thread
    • files app icloud backup ipados
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: iOS 15
  13. C

    iPad Pro - how to delete files to free storage

    So, I worked some files on LumaFusion, and added them on iCloud storage. Those files remain on my iPad as well, without the option like OneDrive to unload them locally. I thought when adding more files would remove some others to make space, just like Photos. This doesn't happens, and I am...
    • cmamb
    • Thread
    • 256gb files files app icloud ipados 14 ipadpro2020 storage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iOS 14
  14. H

    Files app unable to play mpeg-4 video (h.265 hevc 4:2:2 4k video - xavc hs)

    So I have an ipad pro 2018, and I found out that the Files app can't natively play the [h.265 hevc 4:2:2 4k xavc hs] video file that I shot with my a7siii. With vlc player and nplayer, I can play those files smoothly, so its not an issue with general playback. I was just wondering if there was...
  15. F

    iPad Pro Troubles with & Q about Files app storage

    Hey all. I've spent the last couple days offloading large Procreate files from my iPad Pro, routing through Files and then deleting them there once the documents were safely in Dropbox. But now my Files app is near to empty, and it says it's taking up 15 GB. Literally the only thing in my Files...
    • foxfoxfox
    • Thread
    • files app ipad pro storage
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iPad
  16. N

    Universal Gallery view for iCloud Drive files app

    I’m looking for an app that can let me browse my iCloud Drive files in a gallery/grid view similar to the Photos app? I like to keep my drawing reference photos on iCloud Drive so I can put them into folders and use tags to better organize them. It would be awesome if the Files app had a gallery...
  17. 2

    Anyone got shared USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme working over SMB?

    Files (the iOS app) has supported smb since 13.0 if I remember correctly. I remember being excited about it. Now I need it. smb://airportextremeipaddress.local seems right but after about 25 seconds, it times out and I get “There was a problem conbecting to the server”. iOS 14.3 AirPort...
    • 2016mbp
    • Thread
    • airport utlity files app ios14 smb
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: iOS 14
  18. M

    Photos app not showing "new imports" on iPad Air 4 with IOS 14.2

    I'm trying to import a large number of photos from a USB stick into my iPad Air 4th generation running the latest IOS (14.2). The photos on the USB are from a wide range of dates, so I need to be able to easily identify them once they've been imported, before moving them into various albums...
    • Midahed
    • Thread
    • files app ios 14.2 ipad air 4 photos app
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: iOS 14
  19. A

    iPhone 8/Plus Please tell me what really contains in iPhone Files app

    Hi, My iPhone Files app showing 2.77 Gb of data in 'iPhone storage' section, but I have only some word documents & pdf(just 80 Mb for sure) saved to 'On My iPhone' section of Files app. So anyone please tell me what could be this remaining almost 2Gb of data which I'm not aware of also which I...
    • ah678
    • Thread
    • back up files files app icloud ios iphone iphone 8 storage storage & icloud usage
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: iPhone
  20. K

    new iOS (14) but same crappy Files app

    I was hopping for some improvement with iOS14 in the severely limited Files app. I have several files and it is a frustration every time I use my iPhone or iPad to interact with them. Apple is an $1trillion company and it seems they cannot allocate some engineers to work and provide us with some...
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