[gcr]

Re: files on iOS.

Design decisions have led to the requirement that apps can only access files inside their app container sandbox.

This means if you want a "file manager" for iOS, it can only manage the files that you send into that app.

Documents by Readdle is a bit of a hack: a file manager that also includes PDF reading bits and media decoding bits and picture viewing bits, with plugins to copy to/from cloud services. Either way, the only files you get to manage are livinng inside of Documents' file system. It's not very UNIX-y, granted.

But the inability to create a "file manager" is a legitimate design decision with legitimate upsides.