Christian Rentrop comments on what he considers the 12 most important shortcomings in iPadOS:
The iPad Still Can’t Do It. Period.
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Under “Terrible File Management”, he criticises the lack of a classic desktop that users – myself included – like to clutter with files.
However, if direct access to files from the Home Screen of your iPhone or iPad is important to you, it is quite easy to set up in iOS/iPadOS.
- Add the Files app widget to one of the Home Screens.
- Edit the widget and select a favourite folder as its source.
- To add folders or files to Favourites, long-press a file or folder in the Files app.
- You can add not only files and folders in iCloud to Favourites, but also local ones on the iPhone or iPad. The same applies to files on the network or with cloud providers such as Google.
This makes it possible, for example, to display a Mac Desktop synchronised via iCloud on the Home Screen and open its files directly from there.
