alt Hacker News> 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.
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raw_anon_1111 • yesterday at 4:55 PM
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
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GuinansEyebrows • yesterday at 6:51 PM
That's what the file browser is called on iOS as well :)
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.