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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
| Initial release | September 19, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-09-19) |
| Operating system | iOS 11 and later,iPadOS,visionOS[citation needed] |
| Available in | 33 languages[1] |
List of languages English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | |
| Type | File management |
Files is afile management app developed byApple Inc. for devices that runiOS 11 and later oriPadOS.[2] Discovered as a placeholder title in theApp Store just prior to the company's 2017Worldwide Developers Conference, the app was officially announced at the conference shortly thereafter. Files allows users to browse local files stored within apps, as well as files stored incloud storage services includingiCloud,Dropbox,[3]OneDrive, andGoogle Drive.[4] It allows for the saving, opening and organization of files, including placement into structuredfolders and sub-folders. iPadOS and recent versions of iOS are able to drag-and-drop files between Files and other apps, while iOS versions before iOS 15 are limited to drag-and-drop inside Files itself.[5] Further organization can be done through the use of color-coded or custom-named tags, and a persistent search bar allows for finding files inside folders, though not inside other apps. A list view enables different sorting options. The app offers the exclusive playback of high-qualityFLAC audio files, and also offers support for viewingtext files, images, "Music Memos", andZip archives, as well as limited support for video.
Hours before Apple's June 5, 2017Worldwide Developers Conference, developer Steve Troughton-Smith discovered a placeholder title in theApp Store for a "Files" app, requiringiOS 11.[6][7] Apple officially announced the app at its conference shortly thereafter.[8][9]
Files allows users to browse local files stored within apps, as well as files stored oncloud storage services includingiCloud,Box,Dropbox,[8]Google Drive,OneDrive, and more.[10] Users are able to save, open, and organize files,[10] including placing files into structured folders and sub-folders.[8] On theiPad, users can drag-and-drop files between the Files app and other apps. On theiPhone the functionality was initially limited to only inside each respective app[11] but was later updated to behave like on the iPad.[5] Users can add colored and custom-named tags to files, adding them to a dedicated "Tags" section.[12] A persistent search bar at the top enables finding files inside sub-folders, though it doesn't search within other apps.[13] A list view enables optional sorting according to size or date.[14]
Upon long-pressing a file, the app offers several options, including "Copy", "Rename", "Move", "Share", "Tags", "Info", and "Delete".[13] Files stored on third-party services can be copied to the device for offline access.[12] iCloud Sharing is brought out from Apple's dedicatediWork apps to become a standardized feature across the operating system, enabling the sharing of any file in Files; the dedicated "iCloud Drive" app is removed, replaced by Files, with iCloud available as one of the cloud storage providers users can connect the app to..[12]
A built-in player inside the Files app allows for the playback of high-qualityFLAC audio files.[15][16] The app also supports the viewing and extraction ofZip archives.[17] If no compatible app is installed, Files allows for the viewing oftext files, and experiments in watching videos inAVI orMOV formats have shown limited, but partially successful, results.[13] Images and "Music Memo" files can also be previewed and played.[13]
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