Great, but it brings me back to my post earlier as to why I need an IMak rather, I mean, why is the photos folder not vvisible? I do understand the power issue, but why can the lightning port not power drives, it can power sertin soundcards? But of corse each bit helps.
On 6/10/19, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > These changes to Apple iPad OS are going to make things all that much easier > for those of us who use the iPad as a recorder etc. > The following article appeared in Today's "Theaustralian" newspaper. > <snip> > File management makeover, operating system to boost iPad > Apple chief design officer Jonathan Ive and senior vice president of > hardware engineering Dan Riccio look at the screen of an iPad in San Jose. > Picture: AP > ByCHRIS GRIFFITH, > TECHNOLOGY REPORTER > Apple’s iPad is getting a file management makeover, and that means vastly > increased functionality. You’ll be able to plug in USB drives, SD cards, and > > external drives, and access media as you would on a laptop. This is expected > > to majorly extend the iPad’s usefulness. > The new feature was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in > > San Jose last week and will be available around spring, when Apple releases > > its first iPad-specific operating system, iPadOS. If you can’t wait until > then, you can download a public beta (trial) version in July. > It’s one of a slew of changes to the iPad. They include a feature called > Sidecar, where you use an iPad as a second screen for a Mac. > The Files app currently lets you access and open files on an iPad, or > through various cloud services. These services include iCloud Drive, Box, > Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud and Google Drive. You can > > move iCloud Drive files to your local drive, or use regular iPad services to > > email, share and print them. > But it lacked the versatility of managing files on external drives available > > on a laptop. > The shift to iPads with a USB-C drive has finally seen Apple make this much > > easier. iPadOS will let you plug in external hard drives, USB flash drives > and SD cards using an adaptor, and access and transfer files to and from > iPad. > Apple says the new functions will apply to all current iPad models, iPad Air > > and even five-year-old iPad Minis. But iPads with lightning connectors > rather than USB-C ones won’t be able to power external drives. In those > cases, you’ll need an external power source. > When you plug in a drive, you will be able to drill down into nested > folders, manage and move files. An external drive will be visible along with > > iPad folders, and those from the cloud services. But folders used by the > Photos app won’t be visible. > You will be able to locate images and email them as attachments, or edit > them without needing to copy them into iPad storage. You can post files > stored on external drives straight to social media. > You will be able to open a third-party video editing app on an iPad and work > > with a bunch of high-resolution videos sitting on an SD card. You can more > easily process media on the go. > The same features will work with an iPhone, although you will currently need > > a lightning adaptor, which means no external power support, and you will > have to make do with the smaller screen. You will be able to create local > folders on an iPad. > Apple is adding SMB support, so from your home network you can access files > > from a home PC, file server and network storage. > Apple also announced changes to Safari on iPad. Users will see the desktop > version of websites rather than the more limited mobile sites. Users will be > > able to manage and edit WordPress and Squarespace websites from iPad. > Apple says the new file management will support external media formatted as > > FAT, exFAT (used by Windows), HFS and APFS (used by macOS) > Safari on iPad will have a download manager — again, the iPad will have a > more desktop-like functionality. The Files app will interact with a > downloads folder. > There’s lots of general changes. The iPad home page will display widgets on > > the left side and you can configure a series of widgets that scroll up from > > the bottom. > There’s new gestures for accessing several apps at the same time side by > side. > You can have two instances of the same app running next to one another. You > > could show two Notes app documents side by side, scroll through one and > selectively copy text to the other. Slide over mode lets you access selected > > apps by sliding left from the right side of the screen. You could set up > your iPad to access your calendar, mail and messages in this way. > Text editing has been overhauled. Scrolling up and down documents requires > less effort, moving the cursor around a document is more intuitive, you can > > copy and paste using three finger gestures, and Apple virtual keyboards > support swipe typing. > Apple says it has reduced the latency (delay) using Apple Pencil from about > > 24 to 9 milliseconds. > Chris Griffith attended Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose > > courtesy of Apple. > <snip> > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2376): https://groups.io/g/all-audio/message/2376 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/32007549/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/all-audio/leave/1074140/405281159/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
