They wouldn't have to jump around to edit or share. Users wouldn't have to remember which folder a document was in, nor which app. Worse, Apple desire to abstract file systems to make things simpler for users has resulted in different, rather than less, mental overhead.Ī unified document repository, modeled after the existing unified image repository, rounded out with more consistent attachment options, could be the best of all worlds. Basic, needful things like attachments are still inconsistent between built-in apps like Message and Mail. When it comes to file access, however, it's still in its infancy. IOS has become a mature operating system with text editing, multitasking, better notifications, and more. Take a screenshot on your iPhone and almost immediately drag it from iPhoto to Photoshop on your Mac.ĭocuments in the Cloud already ties into iCloud, but it lacks a user accessible interface on iOS like Photo Stream has with Photos.app. Take a photo of your child playing soccer at the game, your family can see it near instantly at home on the Apple TV. That's incredible from a backup and accessibility standpoint. With Photo Stream, if you've chosen to enable it, any photo you take or image you save to Camera Roll gets automatically copied to the Photo Stream album, stored up on iCloud, and pushed to every other iOS device on your Apple ID (for one month or until 1000 other photos have pushed it off, whichever comes first), as well as iPhoto and/or Aperture (until and unless you deleted) on OS X, and the iCloud directory on Windows. Document picker would just add the option to move a document to the central repository, the way photo editing apps can move a local image to the Camera Roll for universal access.
Those could still be saved within the and even synced the way they are now, utterly transparently. To keep things simple for users, it could only show compatible documents when the documents picker is called.Īlso, it wouldn't replace the auto-save feature of apps like Notes. IOS already knows which files can be opened in which apps - it shows you a list of compatible apps in the "Open In" Action (see the Dropbox cloud store example at the top). Launch Notes, create a document, tap Save to Files, and your document becomes available in the documents picker for any other app. (I can dream, can't I?) Launch Elements, tap the Files button, and the documents picker would let you open and edit any plaintext file on your device or in Documents in the Cloud. Launch Mail, tap the Files button, and the documents picker would let you attach a document to an email. It would function as a central document repository for iOS. You could use it to both open documents in apps, and save documents from apps. Now imagine there was a documents picker controller that allowed other apps, built in and App Store, to access your documents. (Vexingly, while Mail.app can save images from an email, there's still no Messages-style camera button so you can add images to an email on-the-fly.) Launch AutoStitch, build a panorama, tap the Action button, tap Save to Camera Roll, and your composite becomes available in the image picker for any other app. Launch Instagram, tap the pictures button, and the image picker lets you choose a photo to apply filters to and share. Launch Messages, tap the camera button, and the image picker lets you attach pictures to an iMessage or MMS. It functions as a central image repository for iOS. You can use it to both open images in apps, and save images from apps. It's an iOS controller that allows other apps, built-in and App Store apps, to access your photos. Photos.app isn't the only way to access your pictures in iOS. With the Action, Edit, and Trash buttons, you can perform various file management, modification, and sharing tasks. Tap a document, you open it in QuickView. Tap a folder and you see a scrollable grid of the documents contained inside it. Now imagine you could launch the Files app a see a list of Folders, one of which is your local folder, Documents, another of which is your iCloud folder, Documents in the Cloud, and the rest of which are any folders you've manually created and moved documents into. With the Action, Edit, and Trash buttons, you can perform various image management, modification, and sharing tasks. Tap an album and you see a scrollable grid of the photos contained inside it. On the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you can launch the Photos app and see a list of Albums, one of which is your local album, Camera Roll, another of which is your iCloud album, Photo Stream, and the rest of which are any albums you've manually created and moved images into. As I've argued before, the template for a useful Files.app and documents picker is already present in iOS with Photos.app and the image picker.
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