iOS 10 wish list: Support for USB drives and network storage<article>
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Of all the conventions of traditional computers that iPhones and iPads flout, perhaps the biggest is the concept of saving documents to files and folders. So much of the personality of the Mac is defined by the Finder, an app devoted entirely to organizing the files and folders on your various local and networked storage devices.</p><p>
iOS has gradually moved toward allowing users to take a more sophisticated approach to document management over the years. With iOS 10 it’s time for Apple to extend that support even further.</p><h2 id="goodintentions">Good intentions</h2>
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For years, there was nothing like the Finder on iOS. Items could be passed around from app to app, making copies and creating version-control nightmares, but apps couldn’t all read from and write to a shared repository. Your iPhone and iPad have storage–these days potentially a
lot of it–but there’s no hard drive icon to look inside, no document hierarchy to access with a couple of keystrokes from just about any app.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3052570/ios/ios-10-wish-list-support-for-usb-drives-and-network-storage.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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iOS 10 wish list: Support for USB drives and network storage
