[appsuite-announce] Open-Xchange releases new generation of OX Drive app for Apple iOS

[Open-Xchange App Suite Maintenance Announcements]

Dear Open-Xchange Customers and Partners,

With every update to Open-Xchange’s products, we increase their functionality, and ease of use, in order to improve usability. The latest releases are no different. Today we announce a new version of OX Drive app for Apple iOS. This app makes all your OX Drive content available in Apple's native Files app.

This new OX Drive app for Apple iOS, now called "OX Drive by Open-Xchange", is an intelligent file synchronization app for iOS phones and tablets. It integrates natively into Apple's iOS Files app on iPhone and iPad devices. It provides all corresponding functionality that users are used to from this service.

With this new generation app, Open-Xchange provides a seamless integration into Apple’s app ecosystem and into the system’s own file browser, the Files app for OX App Suite v7.10.6. 

This new OX Drive app replaces the previous OX Drive app which was a standalone app that used an independent file browser. The reason for this was that with iOS 11 Apple introduced the new Files app. Files can be compared to Finder on macOS or Explorer on Windows. It is a system-wide native file browser that deeply integrates into the operating system and provides cross-app file handling. Open-Xchange decided to fully embrace this new technology and fully support the Files app as its main user interface.

With the new integration users can easily search and organize their own files in one app. This is independent from where the file were originally received from. Users can easily import/export their content to/from other apps such as Mail; they can edit Office documents and automatically synchronize new versions of those documents; create PDFs, and a lot more. All these native features are now also available for OX Drive content. Also, custom OX Drive-specific actions, such as creating or editing sharing links, are presented in the Files app. From a user’s perspective, the user interface part of the OX Drive app just handles the log in and displays some legal information. Everything else is done by using the familiar Files app that comes with the device.

Please note that this only works in conjunction with OX App Suite v7.10.6. 

Enhancements to the new generation in this release include:

- Use Apple's native Files app to browse and organize OX Drive content
- Drag and Drop files from other apps, or storage locations, into OX Drive and vice versa
- Compress your files to save storage space
- Scan documents and directly upload them
- Edit files with other supported apps and save the new versions directly in OX Drive
- Create sharing links with an expiration date and/or a password for added security

What’s New in General and Feature Overviews

Open-Xchange now provides more detailed overviews and Feature Overview documents relating to new product releases. These can be found at https://www.open-xchange.com/resources/ox-product-updates/whats-new/

For details of how to install and update OX Drive app for Apple iOS, please refer to the instructions provided at: https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:OX_Drive

Best regards,
Your Open-Xchange Team

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