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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by comex on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @11:38PM (#14200253)
...But it does work on iOS. It's just not built in. For example, Transmit for iOS supports FTP, and includes a document provider extension so you can directly access files on FTP servers from any app that uses the standard document picker.

https://panic.com/transmit-ios/

Searching the App Store I also see some apps for SMB, but I don't know whether they have document provider extensions.

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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by astrodust on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:19AM (#14200402)
You can also send faxes from iOS. What's your point?
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Re:Shutting down public FTP services by comex on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:57AM (#14200533)
The post I replied to implies that iOS is (somehow) "artificially limited" to be unable to access FTP - or at least I interpreted it that way.

FWIW, I'm not convinced that "web-based" is a better alternative for read/write file access, assuming you mean file manager webapps. No OS can integrate those into the native file picker, so you can't avoid the inefficiency of manually uploading files after changing them. WebDAV works pretty well though, if that counts...

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