Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family

Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by 1970-01-01 on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:24PM (#45999801)

Is iPhone still abstracting files away into some kind of seamless data experience for the end user or does is finally understand what files are for?

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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by Antrikshy on Thursday November 20, 2025 @07:37PM (#45999879)

They have a shiny file system abstraction, but ever since they introduced that, they have allowed downloading arbitrary files into it AFAIK.

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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by benwaffle on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:09PM (#46001140)

There's a files app

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Re:Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting wi... by leo60228 on Friday November 21, 2025 @08:18PM (#46011151)

Things have inverted: iOS now has a user-visible filesystem apps can expose their data in, while current Android versions model everything around "documents" sourced from "document providers" with major performance and functionality limitations.

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