Microsoft OneDrive

I have been using this app and OneDrive for a few years now and love it. OneDrive is my main drive to keep all my documents, so I can access all my things on my home PC, iPad and iPhone. The best feature I love is the ability to scan something from the iPhone camera and it uploads straight into any folder within OneDrive, this is handy for tax receipts. I also love how having an Office 365 subscription gives me 1TB of storage space. For all the people complaining about the app not working properly, it’s not the app, it’s your phone, your phone is just like a computer program and sometimes files become damaged and need to be reinstalled. When in doubt, reinstall. I reinstall the ios software about every 6 months and I never get issues.

I really want to like this. OneDrive is a good product. But the iOS app needs work. I like syncing my entirely library to my device. I can access my documents anywhere, anytime, annotate them, etc. But I multitask. And this app does not. Switch to another app, switch back again, and it’s either taken me to page 1 of a manuscript (“where was I again?”) or it’s taken me back to the root of my OneDrive libraries, and I have to find the file I was in in the depths of my folder structure again. It would almost be ok if “Recent” did what it was meant to, but more often than not, the PDF I was in doesn’t show up in the list, or at least not for a few days. The “Apple Pencil” functionality in PDFs is “good” but not great. Often when I am in annotate mode, I use my finger to scroll up and down, then the pencil to annotate. Sometimes it thinks my finger is the pencil and so I scribble annotations while trying to scroll through the document. It also doesn’t take pressure-sensitive info from the pencil, which is a shame. Finally, the PDF viewer should reflect the other top PDF viewers out there and allow me to use “single-page view” so that I can swipe SIDEWAYS through pages, like in a book, instead of vertically.

The full screen notes are less user-friendly. Editing documents (highlighting, drawing, making notes) has been made more tedious (placing edit options at the top of page is good, but there aren’t all the options there anymore). Keep the edit options at the top as they are in the new update, but it would be much better if you restored everything else to how it was (it was amazing before)! You also can’t zoom in as much now, which makes handwriting less accurate. Can’t edit handwriting thickness or colour afterwards either so you have to draw, check to see if the thickness is right, change, draw again... can’t tap and hold to bring up edit options.. the 3 pages per row in zoomed out view means reading what’s on each page is difficult - 2 per row worked really well for trying to find what you are looking for. Also can’t crop pictures taken when inserting into the document. Pretty much, the new layout is a good idea, but would be drastically improved if everything else in the previous version was still available. But thanks for making a valuable app!

The app is brilliant, but the most recent update removed many of the editing features. There is no longer a tap and hold anywhere to bring up the editing options. The notes have become full page, which is very unnecessary and impedes ease of use. Text highlighting no longer allows changes to opacity. There is far fewer colours to select for the pen/highlighter (the previous colour options were amazing). There also isn’t an option to change the drawing thickness/opacity/colour after drawing (only a delete option when you tap on drawing). Zooming out to see all slides/pages now has 3 per row which makes them difficult to read - it was perfect with 2 per row so you could read them without straining. I do like that the editing bar is at the top now though, much better position. However, the bar still needs to have the same useful features. Thanks for the app! 🙂.

Thank you for making this app it’s helped me a lot with a lot of things. I have come across some difficulties though and if fixed it could make the app a whole lot more easy to use. First of all the most annoying thing I have seen on the iOS app is when you want to select something all at once... well you can’t. You have to tap each photo individually which makes the job very hard if transferring a big amount of data. The other problem I’ve come across is on iOS when you transfer data from another app there is no option for OneDrive. I don’t know if this is a problem with your app or the one I’m transferring from but it’s also very annoying transferring something the long way. Besides those two things I haven’t found any other problems, great app and I hope you guys succeed with this app👍🏻😁