{"id":49612,"date":"2013-09-05T19:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=49612"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:12:03","slug":"google-drive-for-ios-gets-redesigned-quick-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-for-ios-gets-redesigned-quick-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Drive for iOS gets redesign, quick sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google Drive for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/google-drive.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Drive for iOS<\/a> has a new look and a couple of new features. Today, Google rolled out an update for its Drive app for <a title=\"iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> to feature the same <a title=\"Goolge Search for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/google_search.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Now<\/a>, card-style interface the company has been adopting across all of its products. The interface has been cleaned up a bit with an emphasis on search. At the top of the app, you&#8217;ll now notice a persistent search bar where you can quickly look for your files and documents. This includes the file name and text within a certain document, which is very handy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-drive-allegedly-begins-encrypting-files-to-stop-snooping\">Google Drive allegedly begins encrypting files to stop snooping<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-drive-for-ios-updated-with-image-swiping-comments\">Google Drive for iOS updated with image swiping, comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-drive-for-android-updates-with-document-scanner-card-layout\">Google Drive for Android updates with document scanner, card layout<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49618\" title=\"google drive for iPad\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/3-434x568.png\" alt=\"google drive for iPad\" width=\"434\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/3-434x568.png 434w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/3-195x256.png 195w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/09\/3.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Files, photos, and documents have also been made more visual, giving users a large thumbnail preview of each file. Of course, users can change the layout to a list if they want to fit more files onto the screen. Files can now also be edited in landscape orientation.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing has also gotten easier with the updated Google Drive app for iOS. When you tap on the details pane of Google Drive, you&#8217;ll see an option to &#8220;Get link,&#8221; which automatically copies the link to your clipboard for easy sharing. The details pane also allows users to move files or share an entire folder with a friend.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a title=\"Google Drive Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/googledrive.blogspot.com\/2013\/09\/a-completely-new-look-for-drive-on-ios.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Drive Blog<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Drive for iOS has a new look and a couple of new features. Today, Google rolled out an update for its Drive app for iOS to feature the same Google Now, card-style interface the company has been adopting across all of its products. The interface has been cleaned up a bit with an emphasis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-drive-for-ios-gets-redesigned-quick-sharing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Drive for iOS gets redesign, quick sharing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":49618,"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-49612","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\/49612","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=49612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332289,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49612\/revisions\/332289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=49612"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=49612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}