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Im not sure if Android has caught up but the iOS file explorer app is excellent.

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stavros|3 months ago

Saying "I'm not sure if Android has caught up" when Android is decades ahead of Apple in that regard is some kind of... something.

sussmannbaka|3 months ago

Certainly wasn’t ahead with the stock file manager that came with my last Android phone.

BoredPositron|3 months ago

Still no smb/webdav/sftp somehow...

Yizahi|3 months ago

Whenever I'm forced to help with iPhones, I'm baffled how hard everything is. And I had my own iPhones previously. Download a file, unpack it and open in an app is an exercise is frustration, and that's just hoping that I will find the file due it being newest. Working with directories and old files properly, like on Android, I'm not sure if its even possible on iOS. And all that with a crappy keyboard with hidden numbers and special symbols, making searching even harder.

bigyabai|3 months ago

I'm pretty sure that iOS only has a file explorer app because Android supported it.

There was almost a whole decade there where Apple pretended that the feature just didn't need to exist.

kevin_thibedeau|3 months ago

To be fair, Android lacked a stock file browser for much of its existence.

sussmannbaka|3 months ago

Am I supposed to be mad about them not supporting a feature during a time when I didn’t use iOS or is this somehow supposed to impact my current day use of Files app?

creaturemachine|3 months ago

Remember folks, the iphone was released in 2007, and the files app in 2017. Cut & paste? Apple didn't give ios a clipboard until 2021.

esseph|3 months ago

Was the list time you had an Android pre-2017?

It was around that time it (Files app) got a major refresh.

rcMgD2BwE72F|3 months ago

Try connecting to a WebDAV server on File. It's possible but it's shitty. And try using Syncthing on iOS to keep your files synced across devices without having them uploaded to servers you don't control.

Also, on Android, you can choose any file explorer. You're stuck with Files and it sucks (but it looks nice).

sussmannbaka|3 months ago

I don’t have one of those! I do have an SMB share mounted that I’m currently playing music from, though, and it’s working perfectly fine.

raw_anon_1111|3 months ago

The difference is that the Files app works with third party cloud storage providers.