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Let's share any positive or useful changes or updates you have found in iOS26 (sh.itjust.works)
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Because as far as I can tell, it’s a gimmicky dumpster fire, and I’m pretty sure everything is worse. And my battery life is awful. I looked into rolling the OS back, and apparently it’s not feasible. I may switch back to my iPhone 13 as my daily driver.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I must profess ignorance as to what a samba server is

[–] net00@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Basically, I have a linux mini pc ( a NAS ) set up to be the place where I dump all my pictures, videos, movies, and other files from my iphone, windows pc, ipad, etc. In linux, you have this utility called Samba which enables network access to files through SMB protocol. This let's me easily connect from my iphone, ipad, windows pc (and even TVs) and access all these things seamlessly.

It's my own personal cloud storage, but better, faster and private.

So back in iOS 13 apple added the ability to use the stock files app to connect to SMB servers. Since the Files app is integrated in everything across iOS this was a great addition. Except that for some very dumb reason they didn't implement thumbnails. So I couldn't simply scroll through my albums (some which have many hundreds of pictures) because all files were white boxes with nondescript names. I wasn't about to rename thousands files because that's not worth the effort. Thumbnails are one of the most basic features that they should have added.

Then I tried other file manager apps from the app store, but none had the same level of integration across the OS. Some of these apps you could connect to the stock files app. I could see thumbnails with this approach, except that it was a fucking stupid tradeoff. I don't know why yet, but if you browse remote files through apps connected to the stock files app, THE ENTIRE FILES are automatically downloaded. So each time I opened my movies folder with this approach a 30gb download was running in the background, filling a lot my phone storage. Also this makes the entire point of having remote files completely moot. So I went back to the stock files app and dealt with not having thumbnails as best I could.

iOS 26 finally shows me the thumbnails straight from the stock files app. I'm happy, but pissed off that it's taken them ~6 years to do this...