Comment by esseph
15 hours ago
> files especially when it comes to media since iTunes and the iPod in 2001
As a non-Apple user, this is not something that happened to me. I literally have a "Files" app on my Android phone and my laptop/desktop.
15 hours ago
> files especially when it comes to media since iTunes and the iPod in 2001
As a non-Apple user, this is not something that happened to me. I literally have a "Files" app on my Android phone and my laptop/desktop.
As a technical person, who only ever used Android, I have no idea how files really work on my phone. I even used adb a few times but still. From my PoV there are no "files", just photos, videos, screenshots, downloads, application data, applications and system data - all completely different kinds of data.
In my files app i see "downloads" "images", "videos", "apps", "starred", "safe folder". In "images" i see pictures tagged "downloads", "camera", "DCIM", "screenshots" and one odd "2024-12-03_description_here" that I clearly names myself but don't remember doing that.
I have no clue how that maps to a physical phone filesystem, even though I know it's there. I'm sure teenagers don't know that too.
Right as an Android user you don’t have a separate photo library where pictures go to? (yes I know this isn’t true).
Yes there has been a Files app on iOS devices for well over a decade
> Right as an Android user you don’t have a separate photo library where pictures go to
Yes, which gets autosynced to my immich instance
That's what the file browser is called on iOS as well :)
Both iPhone and iPad have an app named "Files" too.
But it gives you access to almost none of your actual files
So exactly which of “your actual files” do you need access to?
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