after 15 years, iOS has finally caught up with all the main android features, such as
- very mid ui design
- kinda floaty feeling
- unpolished vibe android itself has progressed little, although it is rapidly achieving feature parity with iOS on “locked down user hostility”. overall both ecosystems look very appealing, energetic, and healthy, for shareholders
My sister made some photos for me with her iPad recently. I told her to sent me the photos but she just didn’t know where they were. She could access them with some photo apps but the file system was completely obfuscated. She looked to me because I am the tech guy in our family but I had no idea.
When I used iOS last, a few years ago, photos were not considered files. (Yep… let that thought digest for a bit). This made things like SyncThing/Mobius useless. IIRC photos were managed through some separate API for “security reasons”.
To access photos on a connected iDevice from a Linux machine, you need iFuse, and even then, iOS presents you all images at once. So your photos, received photos, downloads, screenshots, are all in one big pile. Have fun. Oh, but they are split into folders. By number.
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Ah yes, I love when i am considered the tech guy and everyone just turn to me when something on their device does not work, especially when it’s made by apple or is a printer…
Made some photos or took some photos? If she just took photos they’re just in the photos app. But if she made something like with procreate or something then there’s just a normal file system you can access with the Files app. It’s all Unix under the hood, you can even install terminals and navigate around.
See there’s your problem, you need to squeeze the yellow testicle two times then spit on the baby chicken and yell “Hooty Hoo” and the files are right there. It will all make sense once you get used to it.
What are you talking about? You literally need to click a single “share” button. I honestly don’t understand how anyone remotely tech related could struggle with this.
You didn’t explain to me where the file is, you explained how to share one file. Some people like to do this thing with files called ORGANIZE them. Like how back in the day there used to be paper files, in paper folders, in a metal cabinet. That way you can easily find a specific file AND you can transfer the folder with all the organization intact or transfer a whole cabinet, even to a non-apple machine. I want my file system to be brand agnostic. I don’t want to have to learn a new UI every 5 years to figure out how to organize things. I don’t want to boot up my circa 2005 macbook pro (assuming it still works) and not have any idea how to find all my old media. Directories were invented in 1983 and work just fine, always have, always will.
They are already organized in the photos app. If you don’t like the photos app and how it organizes then you’re free to use a different one. Each app gets its own file system sandbox so if you wanted a simple folder structure that you manually manage, there is no technical reason that isn’t possible on iOS. I’ve personally never looked at other photos apps so I can’t recommend one.
It was a Document scanning app. We didn’t bother, she found them at home and sent me a USB stick. It’s true though that I saw this behavior on some Android founds too, where there was only the system file explorer available.
That makes not a lot of sense to me tbh
It doesn’t make sense to you that photos are in the photos app?
The photos app should of cause be a way to view the photos, but ultimately I expect to access them via the file system.
Then use a different photos app that supports that?
No one is forcing you to use the default app.