The civilian technologies industries’ – especially mobile devices – dreams come true is limiting our control over our devices and imagination, so they have control over more content to sell to us. As if we’ve died and gone to silicon heaven or something! Bollocks! Pianos and harps and see images of lots of white with blue skies in your head. Transferring information is a nightmare from and to IOS.Īll technologies manufacturers love to give us advertising and marketing fluff about “endless possibilities” and “bringing dreams to life”, “your imagination is your only limit” blah, blah, blah! Marketing crap! You can just hear the music, can’t you. I also furiously resent not being able to treat my iPhone like a computer and have that level of control. I like to know what file type I have in my mobile device for a variety of reasons. Microsoft never got close to that.Ĭontrol is my biggest disappointment with Mac mobile (iOS) devices today. In fact, one could do almost everything and almost never need to waste time moving a mouse through menus.

Everything from opening new windows to opening programs to emptying the trash and shutting down etc could be controlled with keyboard shortcuts. What I also loved about Mac was the fact that shortcuts were built in for EVERY single function of the computer. I have had a (healthy – a machine that was less than 10 years old) Mac crash on me maybe once or twice in my life. When I first started training in multimedia many, many years ago (just when OSX was first released to the world) Mac had a huge advantage in terms of stability and reliability. Having to use iTunes, no file extensions etc. When it comes to “phones”, lack of control over my own mobile device is my greatest frustration with my iphones. Choose Info from the menu, the file details will be displayed in a full screen like below. Use the left or right arrow to find more options. Once a file being added to Files app, long press on the file until its file name disappears, then release your finger, you will then see a menu bar pops up with options such as Copy, Duplicate, Rename, Move, Delete, Share, Tag, Info. View file extension in Files app on iPhoneįirstly you can make use of the share feature to save the file to the Files app if not yet.

I will also share with you a third-party file manager for iOS which allows us to display and edit file extension on iPhone iPad. In this article, I’ll show you how to view file extension using the native Files app which is shipped with iOS 11 and later. There are several file manager apps to display filename extensions. It is not easy to show file extensions on iOS devices. Sometimes without the file extension you have no idea what the file is.

File extension is a very important part of the file name.

A full name of a file consists of its name and extension.

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