{"id":409084,"date":"2017-09-28T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/28\/google-drive-fixes-apple-files-app-issue\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:53:37","slug":"google-drive-updated-to-play-friendly-with-apples-files-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/google-drive-updated-to-play-friendly-with-apples-files-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive Updated to Play Friendly With Apple&#8217;s Files App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/productivity\/google-drive\">Google Drive<\/a> no longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/27\/docx-files-opening-in-google-drive-on-ios\/\">hijacks file opening duties<\/a> in Apple&#8217;s Files and iCloud Drive apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/google-drive-apple-files.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-593162\"\/><br \/>The app was updated today with a fix for the issue. Microsoft Word documents and other file types can now be viewed directly in in Apple&#8217;s Files and iCloud Drive apps on iOS 11 and iOS 10 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Since a previous update to Google Drive earlier this month, the app became the default opener for many file types due to an open-in-place issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/google-drive-docx-files-800x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"678\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-592959\"\/><br \/>When users with the Google Drive app installed attempted to open a DOCX file in Files or iCloud Drive, for example, the Google Drive app would automatically open and prompt the user to save the file in that app.<\/p>\n<p>Google Drive version 4.2017.37510 is available on the App Store [<a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/google-drive-secure-online-file-storage\/id507874739?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Drive no longer hijacks file opening duties in Apple&#8217;s Files and iCloud Drive apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The app was updated today with a fix for the issue. Microsoft Word documents and other file types can now be viewed directly in in Apple&#8217;s Files and iCloud Drive apps on iOS 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":409085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-409084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}