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On macOS, tags are an integral component of advanced searches that you can build by adding a variety of filtering criteria, including tags. The biggest problem involving tags on iOS is that they’re completely disconnected from search. Imagine having a few hundred tags in this popover without a search bar to find them more quickly: I know professional iPad users who are attorneys and create a tag for each of their clients, and they cannot search for a specific tag by name when they want to add it to a document. So if you’re the kind of person who keeps a collection of 20+ tags in the Mac’s Finder and would like to use them for Files on the iPad as well, you’d have to scroll this list until you find the tag you’re looking for.

8 This panel contains a list of tags, which cannot be searched.

First and foremost, tags can only be added via touch (there are no keyboard shortcuts to do this) by bringing up a Tags panel available in the copy and paste menu after long-pressing a file. There are several problems with Apple’s barebones implementation of tagging on iOS. Did you know that it’s possible to tag documents in the Files app and browse your iCloud Drive documents by tag in iOS 12? You’d be excused if you didn’t because the feature is well hidden, limited to a secluded area of the Files UI, and absolutely not comparable to the flexibility of tags in the macOS Finder. At the very least, ‘Kind’ should be an option, and the ‘Date’ feature should gain sub-options for Date Modified, Added, and Created, like in the macOS Finder. Directly related to view options, iPad users should be able to sort their files with more criteria than the four controls currently available in the Files app. There are other view types Apple could consider as well, but column view should be the first shoe to drop. Column view could easily be adapted to the iPad’s bigger touch targets, and it could also be integrated with a Mojave-like inspector sidebar for file previews and, who knows, maybe even Shortcuts-powered quick actions. It’s time for Apple to offer more view options in Files, starting with a column view, which I mocked up years ago. These display options are fine if you manage a small library of files and app folders, but they break down quickly once you start using an iPad Pro as your primary computer and want better ways to navigate nested folder structures. My concept of a Finder for iPad from 2017.įor the past few years, iCloud Drive (then) and Files (now) have been limited to two views: list and grid.