![]() To make everything secure and fast on the less capable hardware Apple limited what it could do. The thing to understand is that iOS started out as a far simpler OS that a full computer. So even if it can't download a folder directly, it can still do that. ![]() Oh yes, GoodReader is also capable of downloading and unpacking. We commonly call it the Swiss Army Knife of apps. It's supposed to be a PDF reader/annotation app, but includes a lot of other bells and whistles. However, GoodReader is a pretty handy app to have. Last I checked it was on sale for 99 cents. It has a built in browser that you can use to navigate to the folder, or you can enter the folder's URL directly. There are apps that act like file managers (within the app), and it might be possible to download a folder there. ![]() ![]() Of course, you can only open compatible files, but you can at least see the folder.īut iCloud Drive is new, and still lacks a lot of features that are present in a full file manager. Then you use an apps' access to iCloud Drive to look at the folder. It's already possible to create a folder (on the Mac) in iCloud Drive and place any kind of file you want in it. I'm pretty sure this will change as new features are added to iCloud Drive. So the easiest solution is not to allow it. That means allowing Safari to download a folder and save it to an app (because Safari on iOS can't save files to itself) would let you upload incompatible files to apps. You can check this with an individual file, but the nature of folders means they can contain any number of file types. Because of this all the files in an app (usually) need to be compatible with that app. The type of file is only important when you try to open it. They don't care what the file type is, so they will download, move, copy, whatever, a file anywhere you want it. The root of the problem is that computers are file based. ![]() It doesn't care what the file type is until you try to open it. On a computer, even a Mac, you are downloading to a general file system. While your folder may contain only files compatible with the apps you want, the Safari has no way of knowing this so it won't download the folder. This is because each file needs to be saved to an app that is compatible with that file type. The iPad can't download folders (collections of files). ![]()
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