![]() ![]() It's a repository, a view, a way to sanely and safely present all documents in iCloud Drive in a way that empowers people. It's not a filesystem any more than Photos.app is a filesystem. Or, you know, just search in an updated Spotlight that can see into DocumentPicker as well. I could also go to Files.app, search for my article, and then use "Open in." to pick TextApp or any other text editing app. In a world with Files.app, I could go to TextApp, open DocumentPicker, and choose my article. Hey, TextApp!"īoth are valid mental models, but supporting only one of them makes iOS less accessible to people who naturally gravitate towards the other. ![]() It's less fine if your brain works in a file-centric way: "I wrote my article, I'm going to go to my article and open it in whatever app will let me open it. It's fine if your brain only ever works in an app-centric way: "I wrote my article in TextApp, I am going to go to TextApp and open my article". Instead of being able to open a single app and browser all our pictures, we have to go find an App Store app that'll let us browse them. What we have now is analogous to Photos.app and ImagePicker, sans Photos.app. The problem that remains is that we still need to remember what app can access our files, or we need to find an App Store app that can access a wide range of files. DocumentPicker solved that, making files available to any app that called up the iCloud Drive interface. A lot of that had to do with "app jails", or files locked within specific apps, inaccessible any other way. ![]()
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