Apple's brand-new ipad OS is coming this fall and it's finally making iPads more
like computers and that's thanks to some major updates to the files app including
dedicated local storage and external storage support we've just downloaded
the first developer beta so let's take a look at everything you can already do
with external storage on the 2018 iPad pro we just unbox this SanDisk dual USB
flash drive and filled it up with different files from our Mac what makes
this drive special is because it features both USB a and USB C so you can
easily transfer files between the iPad pro and basically any computer will
leave a link to this flash drive down below plugging it into the iPad pro and
opening the files app we can see the new drive pop-up in the locations menu and
opening it we see a ton of different files let's see if we can easily copy
all those files to the iPads local storage or in other words on my iPad
location tap select select all then tap move choose on my iPad and let's create
a new folder named USB back up and then hit copy as you can see our local
storage shows the USB back up folder and all our files are now in there if you
perform a long press on a folder we get a bunch of options including compress
which creates a zip file out of it we can also tap on any file name to quickly
and easily rename it and then if you tap on the zip file it'll start unzipping it
let's select these files and delete them but they won't be erased from storage
just yet we have to head down to the recently deleted section tap select and
tap delete all to fully erase them off the storage heading back to the flash
drive we can easily open this PDF file mark it up if we'd like and hit share
from there you can copy the file prints it or share it any way you'd like
including easily air-dropping it to any Apple device now let's open this mp4
video file if plays just fine straight from the USB Drive and even trim it down
to any length in the share menu we could also save the video to the iPad we also
get options to copy it to luma fusion but it doesn't seem to work just yet so
let's open luma fusion and see if we can import the video now that we have it
open let's open files and split screen by
bringing up the dock and dragging it to the side
then we can easily drag the video file into luma fusion and there you go
it's imported and we can now start editing it we also have some music files
on here in three different formats mp3 m4a and wav and all three play just fine
you can easily scrub through the songs timeline and even share it using airdrop
and just as easily as a video file you can import it into luma fusion and edit
it we also added a screen recording we took on our Mac and although it wouldn't
play within the files app we were able to import it into luma fusion and it
played back just fine even though it said this clip isn't fully supported the
beauty of this is that we didn't have to import them into camera roll however if
we dig into the luma fusion folder in local storage we'll find those files
copied over and that's because third-party apps like luma fusion
haven't yet been updated to read directly from a storage drive but we
expect them to be able to soon heading back to the flash drive let's check out
some more files these font files are recognized as fonts but I don't think
we'll be able to do anything with them since Apple will have their own font
manager within the App Store HTML files open up just fine so you can view them
as an image and print them from the share menu
text documents easily open up for viewing and we'll show you how you can
edit these in just a moment even XML files will open up for viewing
by whoever wants to which is really impressive here's an MOV video file from
a finalized YouTube video we made in the past it works perfectly we also have a
folder filled with some photos they open up just fine and you can swipe left and
right to view them you can also tap and hold on one of the photos drag it down
and use the other finger to select some more photos and then drop them into
local storage there you go you've just imported photos into the local storage
and as you can see they're nowhere to be found in the camera roll going back to
the USB Drive we can also view raw photos but it doesn't seem to show the
full image if you tap into one however we can tap share and then tap Lightroom
and tap launch Lightroom right now and there you go it imported the raw photo
and we can start editing after finishing the edit you can tap share save to files
and it doesn't seem like saving to the flash drive is available yet in this app
but we can still save it to local storage as you can see our new
Edda is saved and interestingly we can't find the original raw photo
it wasn't imported it was actually editing off the flash drive and it's
missing from the camera roll as well we can now go back to the files app grab
that edited photo and transfer it to the flash drive now here's a Microsoft Excel
file that easily opens up for reading but if we open the numbers app we can
open that excel file which creates a duplicate numbers file and we can start
editing it once finished tap share and then we can choose to save to files and
even export it straight to the USB Drive and there it is in the files app along
with the duplicated numbers file here's a Microsoft Word document it opens up
just fine for reading but if we open the Pages app and go into the flash drive we
can open that Word document and start editing and just like before we can
export it straight into the flash drive now here's perhaps the coolest part we
can go into Safari search for a PowerPoint file tap on it and hit
download we'll see the progress and the new download manager from there we can
tap to open it to find it within the files app go to Cloud Drive downloads
and there it is to make it even better let's open up the keynote app and find
that file there you go we're editing this PowerPoint and again we can save it
directly to the flash drive and there it is on the flash drive and going back to
the local storage there are no signs of any other original files we edit in so
we were editing everything directly off the flash drive now here's something
that everybody's been waiting for you can now backup your photos directly to a
flash drive or other external storage go to photos select the ones you want to
backup or tap select all within an album then tap share tap save to files tap on
your flash drive or hard drive make a new folder called photos backup in tap
save heading back to the files app you'll
find that your photos successfully backed up
there's no eject button anywhere so you can unplug your drives at any time
without worry we also tested out a SATA SSD using a
SATA to USB adapter and then Apple's USB C to USBA adapter and it worked
perfectly fine just like the flash drive now we tried an SD card that we use for
our cameras and it was named error name we started running into issues like
error messages popping up when we tried to transfer files
so it seems like sdcard support is a bit buggy right now we then connected our
Sony camera and we got the same error message so we'll have to revisit support
for these devices later but overall we're extremely impressed with what we
can already do in the first beta of iPad at Wes and we're very excited for the
rest of our favorite third-party apps to get updated to support Apple's new file
system without having an import into camera role anymore
again we'll leave a link to this awesome flash drive down below and if you want
to see the full guide to the new files app and iPad OS including iPads with a
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