{"id":5009,"date":"2024-06-02T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/netzwelt\/show-desktop-files-on-the-iphone-or-ipad-home-screen\/06-2024\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T12:39:47","slug":"show-desktop-files-on-the-iphone-or-ipad-home-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/technology\/show-desktop-files-on-the-iphone-or-ipad-home-screen\/06-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Desktop Files on the iPhone or iPad Home Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Rentrop comments on what he considers the 12 most important shortcomings in iPadOS:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The iPad Still Can\u2019t Do It. Period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golem.de\/news\/funktionalitaet-von-ipados-das-ipad-kann-es-immer-noch-nicht-punkt-2405-185466.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">golem.de<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under \u201cTerrible File Management\u201d, he criticises the lack of a classic desktop that users \u2013 myself included \u2013 like to clutter with files.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Add the Files app widget to one of the Home Screens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edit the widget and select a favourite folder as its source.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To add folders or files to Favourites, long-press a file or folder in the Files app.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pgcsimplygalleryblock-viewer simpLy-gallery-freedom-block\" data-gallery-id=\"simpLy\"><div class=\"sgb-gallery\"><div class=\"sgb-item \" data-item-id=\"4554\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4554\" data-link=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1551.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"sgb-item-caption\">1. Add a folder to Favourites in the Files app by long-pressing the folder.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"sgb-item \" data-item-id=\"4551\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1558-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1558-1-1024x715.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4551\" data-link=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1558-1.png\" class=\"wp-image-4551\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"sgb-item-caption\">2. Place the Files app widget on a Home Screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"sgb-item \" data-item-id=\"4552\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4552\" data-link=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1552.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"sgb-item-caption\">3. Edit the Files app widget by long-pressing it.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"sgb-item \" data-item-id=\"4553\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4553\" data-link=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-4553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1555.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"sgb-item-caption\">4. Under \u201cFavourites\u201d, select the desired folder.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"sgb-item \" data-item-id=\"4539\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Desktop-Schreibtisch-iPadOS-Home-Screen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Desktop-Schreibtisch-iPadOS-Home-Screen-1024x715.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4539\" data-link=\"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Desktop-Schreibtisch-iPadOS-Home-Screen.png\" class=\"wp-image-4539\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"sgb-item-caption\">The Files app widget can be used to place folders on the Home Screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Rentrop comments on what he considers the 12 most important shortcomings in iPadOS: The iPad Still Can\u2019t Do It. Period. golem.de Under \u201cTerrible File Management\u201d, he criticises the lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"If direct access to files from the Home Screen is important to you, it is quite easy to set up in iOS\/iPadOS.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":null,"_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"Desktop Home Screen iPad iPadOS iOS iPhoneOS","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320,305,321,317,287],"tags":[322,288,324,323],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-world","category-imho","category-life-hacks","category-links","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-hidden-gem","tag-ios","tag-ipad","bwp-blog-post","bwp-masonry-item","bwp-col-1","bwp-post-has-title"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Desktop-Schreibtisch-iPadOS-Home-Screen-e1788082919110.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-hoepfl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}