Use the Files app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

View and manage your files from whatever iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact. The Files app makes it simple to find what you're looking for, no thing what device y'all're currently using.

Find your files

The Files app includes files on the device y'all're using, as well as those in other cloud services and apps, and iCloud Bulldoze. Yous tin also work with zilch files.* To access your files, just open up the Files app and choose the location of the file you're looking for.

Save a copy of your file locally

You can find locally stored files in On My [device], under Locations. On your iPad, simply drag files into the On My iPad folder to store them directly on your device. If you desire to save a file locally on your iPhone or iPod touch, follow these steps.

  1. Get to the file that you want to shop on your device.
  2. Tap Select > the file proper noun > Organize.
  3. Under On My [Device], choose a folder or tap New Folder to create a new one.
  4. Tap Copy.

You tin can also long printing on a file, choose Movement, and select which binder you lot want to copy it to.

On iOS 12 or earlier, tap the file and cull Motion. And so, under On My [device], choose Numbers, Keynote, or Pages, and tap Copy.

Motility iCloud Drive files

  1. Go to the file that you want to move.
  2. Tap Select, then cull the file.
  3. Tap Organize.
  4. Under On My [Device], choose a folder or tap New Binder to create a new ane.
  5. Tap Movement.

Yous tin can as well long press on a file, choose Move, and select which folder you want to copy information technology to.

Wait for files on your Mac or PC

  • On your Mac, choose Go > iCloud Drive from the menu bar, or click iCloud Drive in the sidebar of a Finder window.
  • On iCloud.com, go to the iCloud Drive app.
  • On your PC with iCloud for Windows, open File Explorer, then click iCloud Drive.

* Password protected null folders or directories are not supported in the Files app.

Organize your files

It'southward like shooting fish in a barrel to organize all of the files stored in iCloud Bulldoze — including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents. When you lot make changes on one device, your edits are automatically updated on every device using iCloud Bulldoze.

Yous can brand your own folders. Or rename the files and folders you already have when you printing firmly on them.

Create new folders

View your files by name, date, size, or the tags that you add. With colorful and custom labels, you can assign tags to your files any manner that you like. That means you'll quickly find just the projection or document you need.

Add a tag

Rename a tag

  1. Go to Locations.
  2. Tap More than > Edit.
  3. Tap the proper noun of an existing tag.
  4. Enter the proper name of your new tag.
  5. Tap Done.

Delete files

Select the files that you don't want anymore and tap Delete. If you lot delete files from the iCloud Bulldoze folder on one device, they delete on your other devices too. iCloud Drive removes the files from every device that you're signed in to with the aforementioned Apple ID.

When you delete a file from iCloud Drive or On My [device], it goes into your Recently Deleted folder. If you lot modify your mind or accidentally delete a file, you have thirty days to go it back. Get to Locations > Recently Deleted. Select the file that y'all want to keep and tap Recover. Afterwards 30 days, your files are removed from Recently Deleted.

You can too sign into iCloud.com from your Mac or PC, and so go to iCloud Drive and check Recently Deleted.

Want to share with a friend or colleague? You can share any folder or file stored in iCloud Drive directly from the Files app. In iCloud Drive, tap Select, choose the file or folder that you desire to share, tap Share , and select Add People. You tin can share a folder or file through AirDrop, Messages, Mail, and more than. Learn more than about how folder sharing and file sharing work in iCloud Bulldoze.

Or maybe you want to interact on a projection in real time. The Files app lets you do that too with your Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents. Select the file and tap Share or > Add together People. You can invite them to interact through Messages, Mail, or re-create and paste a link. Your participants are colour-coded. And you can see when they're online, actively working on your shared document.

Use third-party apps in Files

The Files app lets yous add together your third-party cloud services — like Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, Adobe Creative Deject, Google Drive, and more — and then that you tin access all of your files on all of your devices. The files you continue in iCloud Drive automatically announced in the Files app, just you need to set up your other cloud services to access them in the Files app too.

Add third-party apps

  1. Download and fix the third-party cloud app.
  2. Open the Files app.
  3. Tap the Browse tab.
  4. Tap More > Edit.
  5. Turn on the third-political party apps that you want to utilize in the Files app.
  6. Tap Done.

If you don't see one of your tertiary-party deject services in the Files app, bank check with your deject provider.

On iOS 12 or earlier, open the Files app then tap Locations > Edit to add third-party apps.

Move third-party deject files

  1. Open the file that you want to move.
  2. Tap Share > Copy.
  3. Open up the folder where you want to move your file.
  4. Firmly printing the screen.
  5. Tap Paste.

Do more with Files on iPadOS

If you lot're on iPadOS, yous tin can admission files on a USB flash bulldoze, SD card, or hard drive through the Files app on iPadOS. Just connect the storage device, and so you can select information technology nether Locations. Y'all tin also connect to unencrypted storage on a file server, if that storage is using the APFS, Mac Bone Extended, MS-DOS (Fat), or ExFAT format. You also have the option to view your files in Column View, which is helpful if you have files nested in multiple folders. Column View lets y'all run across previews of files and offers access to tools like markup and rotate without even opening a file.

Connect to a file server

  1. Open the Browse tab.
  2. Tap More.
  3. Select Connect to Server.
  4. Enter the SMB address.
  5. Tap Connect.
  6. The server name appears under Shared in the Scan card.

Switch to Column View

If yous need help

  • Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the latest iOS, or iPadOS.
  • Set up up iCloud on all of your devices and plow on iCloud Bulldoze.
  • Brand sure that you're signed in to iCloud with the aforementioned Apple tree ID on all of your devices.
  • If you want to upload, download, or share files using cellular information, open up Settings, select Cellular, scroll down to iCloud Drive and whatsoever 3rd-party cloud services yous utilise, and turn it on for each service.

If y'all don't want to access your iCloud Bulldoze files in the Files app, you can cull to download and add merely third-party cloud services instead.

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