it's just over six months since Apple
launched iOS and iPad OS 13 which is the
company's most ambitious attempt yet to
make the iPhone and iPad ubiquitous
amongst consumers Apple implemented
several compelling features in the
iPhone iPad that make consumers really
clamoring for splitview slide over file
management as well as the importing and
exporting of media using an external
storage device now I put a question out
on the channel community here on YouTube
about a week ago asking everyone what
types of topics they wanted me to cover
in the next video and the community
responded resoundingly that they wanted
me to take a deep dive in the files of
file management in external media as it
relates to the iPhone or iPad of course
in hopes of making this subject more
digestible and easy to understand now I
am Mike this is tech 24/7 TV hit like
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talk file management now let's get a few
housekeeping items out of the way before
we even get into the details now I'm
gonna separate today's discussion into
three different sections and the
timestamps that each of those sections
are pinned in the first comment below
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gonna start the video with the most
straightforward topic which is gonna be
compatibility all devices that are
running iOS or iPad OS 13 have access to
the features discussed in the video
today now specifically there are a
couple views in the files app and only
available on the iPad and not the iPhone
but broadly speaking you should have the
same exact functionality on each device
depending on what device you have and
what you want to connect but you might
need a specific dongle to bridge that
gap between the device and that
accessory for instance if you have an
iPhone or an iPad that has a lightning
port you're gonna need one of them
following dongles either a lightning
till USB 3.1 Ekta high powered USB
accessory like a camera or conventional
hard disk drive to your iPhone or iPad a
lightning the SD dongle if you want to
read write or manage files on an SD card
or the very basic Lightning the USB a
dongle for mostly any other accessories
otherwise if you have a 20-18
or even a 20/20 iPad pro you should be
able to use the
we see an SD dongle forgetting for the
SD cards like I mentioned about a USB C
2 USB a dongle or any other accessory or
even the USB C to HTML on goal to
interface with any accessory that
doesn't have a native USB C port on it
additionally there are USB C hubs that
combine several different common ports
into a single device like the hyperdrive
u.s. pc hub for the iPad pro but that is
not required for this now the files app
is gonna be the stock app that comes
installed on all devices running iOS 30
now if you don't see it on your device
you can go ahead and redownload that
from the app store the files app is
going to be the primary way you interact
with files that are stored locally on
your device stored in some cloud service
like iCloud or Dropbox as well as when
data is going to be stored on an
external drive additionally you'll be
able to import and export files using
specific apps that developers continue
to update as their apps support iOS 13
this includes something like lumen
Dropbox whatever the case is any app
that has a file picker menu as long as
it gets updated to use iOS 13 you will
be able to view it and the navigation
pane in the left-hand side now let's go
and open up the files app now when you
first open up the files app this is
gonna be broken down into two panes the
left-hand navigation pane shows all of
your locations favorites and any tags
that you have set up and on the
right-hand side you're gonna see the top
level of whatever storage location that
you are currently in now as you can see
here I am in iCloud Drive and I have a
number of different folders that are
here all right next up we are going to
talk through use cases and how to's
surprisingly the files app in iOS is
very robust and you can perform a
variety of file management operations
individual files and folders using the
contextual long press now you can do
things like the traditional copy move
delete duplicate zip and unzip archives
adding tags to files and folders making
quick edits to photos and videos using
search tokens searching on your local
device as well as iCloud Drive open
files and folders and separate windows
setting your downloads location in
Safari and share files and folders using
iCloud now like I mentioned just a
moment ago every device that runs iOS 13
that has access to the files app like
we've been talking about has the ability
to go ahead and do contextual long press
on a file on a folder to get more
additional option so much like finder in
Mac OS you have the ability to go and
pull up the inspector tab about files
and folders to get more information
about whatever
looking at here so now that when going
to desktop in this second file in the
first row it says 45 second review here
in this 45 second review is X can be a
video file if we long press on it and go
to info here in this view we actually
don't we see what the file is all the
digital information is 45 second
remember you I made for a notable
product it was but let's change the view
here from folder view let's see we're
gonna list view and let's go in change
the figure to the last one here and now
we see when we're looking at this file
here we see these different options open
rotate trim and there's additional
options here inside of the ellipses we
see what kind of file it is when it was
created when it was written
long story short is depending on what
type of file that you're you looking at
you can get more additional contextual
information in the inspector tab or the
in the inspector for that file or folder
and that's just going to depend on the
view that you're in one two with if a
file that it is and the type of changes
that you're looking to make here now
additionally here you have the ability
to go ahead and manage files and manage
files is kind of very you know broadly
speaking here but what you can go ahead
and do is if you can go ahead and long
press on the file you can copy duplicate
move or delete single files at once now
if you wanted to you can actually two
finger swipe you could take this file
drag it around it doesn't really matter
where you want to put it here it's still
gonna be at the top but let's say you
want to go ahead and do two of these
files here so if I'm just gonna go ahead
and swipe with two fingers going down
and it actually selects all those
folders so all I'm doing here is taking
my two fingers swiping down or swiping
up and it's actually selecting all those
folders that is functionality that is in
iPad OS and iOS 13 and then so once you
have those those items selected with the
two fingers we're gonna go ahead along
the bottom because he shared duplicate
move delete or more click on more you
can do everything from copy compress you
know rotate left rotate right or create
PDF now I already have access to
onedrive on my iPad I have downloaded
the app I've signed in to it's one of
the services that I use probably one of
the money trying to get rid of some of
these services if you think about how
many you use so I already have access to
onedrive and what's great about the
finder is we'll go ahead and aggregate
the windows into all the file management
apps that you have so if you have
Dropbox you have Google Drive if you
have onedrive this will act as a single
source of aggregating the data so I can
go into these files and fold
and look for whatever content I wanted
to in the same principles apply in terms
of making changes to the files and
folders that are in there that I was
able to do an iCloud Drive one of the
new things here in iOS and iPad OS 13
applet is share folders that are shared
in iCloud Drive so let's go ahead and
click on this daycare expenses here
daycare expenses is already shared with
my wife we'll go ahead and go to share
and at the bottom here are two at the
top I'm sorry you see show people we
click on show people and it shows
everyone that is already in the folder
we go down to share options it shows the
permissions that they have anyone who
has this folder or then one that has
access to the folder you know only I
could be the or I could be the admin of
it or they can go into anyone can access
us they have a link and who can make
changes to it any external media source
should be readable by the operating
system as long as that drive is gonna be
formatted correctly now I see formatted
correctly I mean that really I haven't
found official documentation from Apple
saying which on disk formats are
supportive but in my testing everything
that's gonna be other than NTFS and ap
FS has worked correctly which includes
exFAT fat32 and hsf+ that means that if
you have a drive if you're currently
using all the windows and it's gonna be
probably formatted in NTFS you're gonna
need to reformat it before you can go
ahead and read it with your iPad because
it you know more likely it won't work
now the real unfortunate part here is
that there's no way to format that
external media using the iPad in iPad OS
13.4 you're gonna need to reformat it in
whether it's on your Mac in your Windows
computer in order for your iPad or
iPhone to go and take advantage of
reading it now as far as specific brands
I have a SanDisk I have Western Digital
I have let's see all those drives that
work for me I've noticed when you're
using a conventional platter drive and
the drive itself supports USB 3 that
you're gonna need to have an external
power source that's providing power to
the drive in addition to the
connectivity it's going through you know
your iPad or iPhone so what that means
is if you have an iPhone or an iPad
that's lightning you're probably going
to need that lightning the USB 3
connection which is you typically use or
they call the camera connection kit it
doesn't have to be huge just for a
camera connection kit you can use it
with other things that require power
now I do have a Western Digital platter
drive that I am able to use directly
plugged into my iPad with basic by
changing out the cable so Amazon you can
find a number of different cables that
go from say these planter hard drives
from Western Digital to USB C without
needing any type of breakout box on your
iPad which is good so I don't have to
carry an additional dongle not that I'm
actually I still have to carry anyways I
probably something else in my peg that
is going to be using a dongle but let me
know how many dongles that you carry
with you on a daily basis because this
is really getting ridiculous here now
like I talked about in the beginning you
might have several different accessories
that you could connect your lightning
bass ipad but you're really unsure how
they're gonna interface with them now
what I can tell you is that if you're in
the market to buy you know some type of
some type of a storage device and you
have a lightning bass iPad I would steer
clear away from any of the different
flash drives that have lightning on them
so I need the flash drive that's gonna
be usb on one side and lightning on the
other the experience is so poor in my
opinion that because you you don't have
the ability to go ahead and directly
connect into files so anytime that you
use one of these flash drives you plug
in you have it you're prompted to
download an app and that app acts as an
interface between your iPad and the
storage device it's just not really good
experience hopefully this is something
that Apple fix in iOS 14 or on iOS and
iPad OS 14 but as of right now if you
use one of these drives they do not work
this so there are a number of different
interfaces that are supported for when
using external storage with that but the
lightning to USB C lightning the USB a
don't work at all in my experience and I
would say as far away from them as
possible now then it's gonna wrap it up
for me folks let me know what questions
you have in the comments below regarding
files file management expand storage
whatever the case is for your iPhone and
iPad in iOS 13 now I am Mike this is
tech 24/7 TV stay safe out there we'll
talk to that next one folks
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