iPad iPad OS: can 3rd party apps access external storage?

[gnomeisland]

I’ve been running the beta since the first or second week, but I just realized that none of my apps see my external drives when they’re plugged in. Files app works great, they just don’t show up in other apps. Is this something developers just aren’t implementing or is that part of the sandboxing?

 

[FenrirWolf]

I’ve been running the beta since the first or second week, but I just realized that none of my apps see my external drives when they’re plugged in. Files app works great, they just don’t show up in other apps. Is this something developers just aren’t implementing or is that part of the sandboxing?

I use FilesExplorer and it could but it’s a bit weird in a sense that you have to add it(each drive) manually and it doesn’t detect automatically like in Files. Seems like something they added after iOS 13 was released though, pretty sure it wasn’t there when it was just a beta.