The first beta of iOS 9 is bringing to light great news that most users have liked: Apple Music, many improvements and new functions within the keyboard ... But this time I am going to talk about the application Mail (or Mail). My colleague Miguel told you yesterday that the first beta of iOS 9 brought with it a new option: to be able to attach more than 5 photographs as before and that's why many people will update to this new version of iOS. But I'm not going to talk about photos, but about a new function that has appeared in iOS 9: the possibility of being able to attach and open other types of files (in addition to photographs, PDF ...). To view these files (or even to attach them) we will have to make use of the Big Apple cloud: iCloudDrive.
iOS 9 will allow you to attach other types of files in the Mail app
The Mail app has always been a bit in the shadows due to the fact that it can only attach X photos, especially its design ... and that is why Apple has decided to give it importance in iOS 9, adding the possibility of attaching other types of files to our emails through iCloud Drive. Take a look at the steps to follow to be able to use this new feature in iOS 9 (for those who have the beta on their iDevice):
- Open the email where you have the attachment and download the file, if iOS has not done it automatically
- Tap the file and tap "Save File"
- The document viewer opens. iCloud Drive and we can choose in which folder we want to save the file and then click "Move to this location" to save it in your Apple cloud.
- Once inside iCloud Drive we can export it to other applications when developers work with the iOS 9 API
Similarly, the opposite step is: attach files to our mail from iCloud Drive. We will see how this feature evolves throughout the iOS 9 betas.