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Hoff

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I'm thinking to buy the 8th Gen iPad

I want to put .JPGs and .PDFs on the iPad and be able to log onto websites and upload those files like you would on a laptop.
Preferably in Safari.

I know this didn't used to work years ago.
But does it work now?
 
Works fine on my iPad Pro 2018 and I don’t think there are any differentiating features in either Safari or iPadOS across iPad models that would signal a difference in functionality here.
 
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I'm thinking to buy the 8th Gen iPad

I want to put .JPGs and .PDFs on the iPad and be able to log onto websites and upload those files like you would on a laptop.
Preferably in Safari.

I know this didn't used to work years ago.
But does it work now?
Works great on all iPad devices.
 
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It works but not all the time. Sometimes the whole webpage breaks or makes it very hard to navigate through the interface.
 
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It works but not all the time. Sometimes the whole webpage breaks or makes it very hard to navigate through the interface.

This one's mostly a webpage coding issue, though. Whether $300 iPad or $1K+ iPad Pro, results are the same.
 
Just realized I also want to be able to download .PDFs and save to a jump drive. Would an iPad let us do that?
 
Just realized I also want to be able to download .PDFs and save to a jump drive. Would an iPad let us do that?

Yes. You'll need a $40 USB-3 Lightning Camera Connection Kit. Even then, I've found FAT32/exFAT support to be unreliable on occasion particularly when browsing folders with thousands of files.
 
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