I ended up using a small USB C to copy and transfer form iPad to MBA and vice versa only way I could reliably get stuff moved easily
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iPad Work Fails on iPad — a list.
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Take a look at FileBrowser Pro. It can do what you and Jaded want and much better.
Hmm, I seem to recall my downloads folder syncing between my iOS devices and my Mac.
I guess in a pinch, there's always airdrop?
This is an interesting thread. The very reason why I like my iPad is I never did heavy duty office work. What ever "office" tasks I had I did on the PC sitting on my desk. I had no expectations of doing this on my, than, iPad Air. I reached out to some friends who are Apple zealots that are forced to slum in the Window world. They routinely pair their iPads with their PC's, many times remotely using a VPN. Since they do not want to be seen with a Windows PC in the wild they use one of the very small micro PC's available when traveling. There is a lot of info about pairing an iPad with a windows machine in Apple Support. There is some issues with the new M4 machines but the support treads indicate they are being solved. I might play with this just for entertainment. I have a Ryzen 7 micro PC (Windows 11 Pro) that runs the Ham Radio station. I have no idea how this would work in a office environment, again read up on it in Apple support.
They do for me, from both the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and my iPad Pro, both are plugged directly into the Mac
Studio, they also sync to Google Cloud.
Just tried to pay a toll on TxTag.org, but on the page to add payment method I couldn’t get that part to load. Using iPad Air 13” and the “desktop site”. It loaded on my laptop though and I was able to pay. These rickety government sites are usually the ones that don’t want to play nice with iPads. Annoying.
That’s not what we’re talking about. I tried to use my iPad Pro to edit video recorded with my X100V. The sound would drop out from each clip after 30 seconds or so. Could not figure out why. Sound played back on the camera. I eventually just edited the video on a 2012 MBP. No issues.
There are other things like trying to do power user tasks with Google web apps, etc. that just don’t work as well or as intuitively on iPad.
Boy you are right about that. This is a good reason why get have one of the cheap micro PC's setup. They are really amazing. I am an AMD fan have alway assembled by PC's with AMD, and Radeon stuff. Here is a BeeLink system. It comes loaded with Windows 11. and can be upgraded to 64GB of DDR4 RAM. etc. I this system when I am have trouble with mostly Fed Gov websites.
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Ugh. So true.
I guess I should be thankful the CA toll roads website works on mobile plus there’s an app, too.
For small files, that's fine, but for multi-gigabyte files that's just excessive. I don't want to upload gigs of data to download gigs of data, when I should just be able to plug the device in and pull the data off of it.
I use a dual USB-A/C flash drive for iPad <-> Windows file transfers (or Samsung T7 if I want faster speed).
To be honest, I'm glad I can avoid iTunes for transfers. iTunes for Windows sucks.
People usually transfer files (big or small) off their laptop the same ways as iPad—via local wifi, removable drive, or internet (only the latter two of which require any uploading). They don’t usually plug computers into computers, so I’m not sure why there should be different expectations for iPad. Just because it’s smaller doesn’t mean it’s a hard drive.
You should be able to use file-sharing on the Mac, connect to it with the iPad, and then move files between the Mac (server) and the iPad (on my iPad). I just tried this using a 2012 MB Pro as the server, with an iPad mini 5 as the client, and was able to connect.
It should use a purely local connection, rather than uploading to an internet server. That means if both the server and iPad are on wifi, then you'll be limited to what the wifi access point can provide.
Transfer files using an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service on iPad
With iPad and a computer, transfer files using an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service like Box or Dropbox.
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First, turn on file-sharing on the Mac. I used SMB as the sharing protocol. I didn't try AFP.
Second, open the Files app on the iPad. Bring up the sidebar. Click the 3-dots-in-a-circle icon at upper right of sidebar (iPadOS 16.6.1). One of the options in the popup should be "Connect to Server". Choose it. You should see a dialog where the available servers and recent servers are presented. Choose the server. You should then be presented with a dialog on how to login, guest or registered user, so choose the appropriate one.
To eject the server (disconnect), bring up the sidebar and notice an Eject icon on the server's named item. It's a solid up-arrow in a circle. Click it to eject.
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In OneNote, when I print out a PDF in the notes to write on it (what I do dozens of times everyday) (so I don't have to open it every time I draw on it), when the PDF is bigger than 2 or 3 pages, the selection pencil and drawing preformed things (like square, arrow etc.) is extremely buggy and slow.
Maybe because I'm on a 3,5 year old iPad 8 and the A12 ist 5 years old AND most importantly, Microsofts Apps for iOS, MacOS and especially iPadOS are GARBAGE and inefficient as hell.
Maybe because I'm on a 3,5 year old iPad 8 and the A12 ist 5 years old AND most importantly, Microsofts Apps for iOS, MacOS and especially iPadOS are GARBAGE and inefficient as hell.
Like many in this thread, I run Microsoft apps for work on my iPad. Below a bug report I filed with Apple regarding multiple apps with FaceID failing. Has anyone experienced a similar issue?
- I run Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Edge on my 2022 iPad Pro 11” connected to my Apple Pro Display XDR. Each app requires FaceID authentication after not using the app for some time. I display all three apps simultaneously using Stage Manager on my Pro Display XDR. I also run Safari on a separate stage. If I switch back to that stage showing all three apps after they have timed out, they will all try to authenticate using FaceID at the same time. It gets stuck in a cycle with the screen flickering and none of the apps ever succeeding. It appears as if they are competing for the authentication process to succeed and getting deadlocked. Perhaps there needs to be some control around the FaceID API to force other apps to wait until the current one completes the authentication process.
Yeah unfortunately a bunch of fails using Microsoft software:
- MS Excel cannot export to CSV (need to use Numbers as a work-around)
- MS Edge fails for many of my internal websites
- MS Outlook
- need to click on an email and then click on a different email to remove the “read” flag since there is only a keyboard shortcut to mark it “unread”
- Cannot copy an email and then attach it to another email as an attachment
- Cannot save an email to OneDrive
- MS Teams
- Cannot share an external screen
- Cannot use an external web cam
- Cannot close lid on the Magic Keyboard and continue hearing audio of a call
- Sometimes cannot join a call when external monitor is connected
This seems not to be an os problem. I tried creating this situation by stacking a number of apps that you faceid on a stage and I can’t get this to happen. The apps I’m talking about will trigger faceid the moment they come on the stage, if they are locked. Regardless of whether the app has the focus or not. In fact, for me, I’m wondering if Face ID unlocks all of the apps requesting authentication at the same time. Because all mine unlock. This is not helpful, I’m sure and not intended to be tech-support. Just offering observations from my end.
Tell me about it. I have been suffering through this frustrating problem with Microsoft Word, which we have to use in my profession. The problem is that arbitrarily – – but quite regularly – – after editing a word document it will spontaneously send an alert saying that Word found “unreadable content“ in the document. The document is destroyed, and completely unrecoverable.
I believe that it has something to do with documents stored on iCloud. When I work with documents to “on my iPad,“ I do not see the error. Knowing that, you’d think I know how to avoid the problem. But if I’m not paying close attention, it sneaks up on me. I had to re-create three hours of work the last time it happened.
What is so strange about it? Is that since the early 2000s, I don’t think I’ve had a corrupted or lost or document. I’ve had plenty of trouble inside or document, of course, but nothing where I actually lost the content of a document and had to recruit a scratch. This is a serious problem.
This problem plagues a number of people. So much so, that the Microsoft forum thread, where it is raised goes on for pages and pages and pages with people reporting the same problem. No response from Microsoft, though.
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Aside from things like this, there’s also this seeming unwillingness from Microsoft to enable important features on word on the iPad. Management of styles, comparing documents, customizing bulleted lists and outlines, inserting filed codes, are a few that I think of.
I can relate to those who need to utilize Microsoft 365 software. Full version of Outlook is a big reason for me to stick to a full OS. Having access to PST files of archived emails is valuable to me and is something that a mobile version of an email app is just not designed for. Its just one of many functions that I have no expectations that a mobile platform will provide. I also have no expectation that Microsoft would port over fully functional versions of their software to competing platforms any more than Apple would do the same with their own software, so that leaves me with the obvious choice of using a Windows based system if I want to preserve all functionality in Microsoft based software. I am thankful for what is available from Microsoft on iOS and MacOS though.
Can anyone check if they are also facing this issue?:
Zoom on iOS, iPadOS and also Android is unable to display video feed while screen sharing of PDF or photos. Video feed still plays but not shown on screen.
I tested on iPhone SE 2016 (iOS 15), iPad mini 6 (iOS 17) and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9. Don’t think it’s because of hardware or OS limitation—more like Zoom‘s lack of incentive.
Zoom on iOS, iPadOS and also Android is unable to display video feed while screen sharing of PDF or photos. Video feed still plays but not shown on screen.
I tested on iPhone SE 2016 (iOS 15), iPad mini 6 (iOS 17) and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9. Don’t think it’s because of hardware or OS limitation—more like Zoom‘s lack of incentive.