{"id":28327,"date":"2012-09-11T00:16:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=28327"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:45:10","slug":"google-drive-updates-with-native-editing-and-more-for-its-mobile-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-updates-with-native-editing-and-more-for-its-mobile-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive updates with native editing and more for its mobile apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-drive-updates-with-native-editing-and-more-for-its-mobile-apps\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Google Drive icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/06\/6-29-2012-9-22-51-AM.png\" alt=\"Google Drive icon\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re a <a title=\"Google Drive for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/google-drive.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Drive<\/a> user, you will want to check the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for updates for the mobile apps. When Google Drive was <a title=\"Google Drive for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-drive-released-for-ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released on iOS<\/a>, <strong>I was disappointed to find that it couldn&#8217;t edit documents on mobile devices<\/strong>. That changes today, as Google Drive <strong>finally supports creating editing documents on iOS<\/strong>. It boggles the mind that Google didn&#8217;t include these basic features right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Those on Apple&#8217;s device can edit documents with <strong>rich text<\/strong>. Users have the option to <strong>change background colors, fonts, and indent<\/strong>. Also new is the &#8216;presentation&#8217; mode where Slides can be set to full screen. This is great, especially for people who want to <strong>give presentations with iPad mirroring over AirPlay or using\u00a0 cable<\/strong>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28329\" title=\"Google Drive for iPad\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/2012-09-10-14.28.19.png\" alt=\"google drive for ipad\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/2012-09-10-14.28.19.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/2012-09-10-14.28.19-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new features don&#8217;t stop there. iOS users can now <strong>upload files and photos directly to their Google Drive<\/strong>. This makes backing up your local files or photos super simple. Organization has also improved with the ability to <strong>create folders and move\/delete files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While editing features were already present on Android devices, commenting wasn&#8217;t.<strong> <a title=\"Google Drive for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/google-drive.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android users<\/a> get the additional feature of commenting over their iOS brethren<\/strong>. Both operating systems still support sharing with easy toggles to keep a document for offline viewing and editing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28330\" title=\"Google Drive commenting\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-drive-commenting.png\" alt=\"google drive commenting\" width=\"600\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-drive-commenting.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/09\/google-drive-commenting-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google still has a bunch of work to do to make Google Drive more usable.<strong> Notably absent is the ability to edit spreadsheets<\/strong>. Only presentations and word documents can be edited on mobile devices at the moment. With the latest updates to Google Drive for iOS though, it&#8217;s nice to see that <strong>Google is dedicated to supporting its products on rival operating systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a Google Drive user, you will want to check the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for updates for the mobile apps. When Google Drive was released on iOS, I was disappointed to find that it couldn&#8217;t edit documents on mobile devices. That changes today, as Google Drive finally supports creating editing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-updates-with-native-editing-and-more-for-its-mobile-apps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Drive updates with native editing and more for its mobile apps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":28329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2560],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-28327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333652,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28327\/revisions\/333652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=28327"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=28327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}