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      • VPN-related issues
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      • Email can’t be sent
      • The app occupies too much space
      • Subscription issues
      • Battery usage and background activity of the app
      • Music skips while playing
    • Billing & Subscription
      • Upgrade to Documents Plus
      • How to cancel the free trial for Documents Plus
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      • Refund processes in Documents
    • Privacy & Data
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    Home Using Documents Transfer & Share your files Save files from other apps to Documents via Extension

    Save files from other apps to Documents via Extension

    Documents is here to help you keep your files at hand when needed, especially when you wish to have quick access to them. Our app offers a whole new experience of saving files from other apps in a few simple steps. Moreover, with the Extension, you are actually able to choose an action for the file before even opening the app. The actions you’ll see will vary according to the file format you’re going to save to Documents - you can also select multiple files at once. If you choose to close the extension, your file is already automatically saved to Documents anyway. Here’s how you can enter the Extension from other apps.

    Save files from other apps via Extensions

    1. Open the file from any other app. 
    2. Go to the Share menu. 
    3. Tap Save to Documents. 
    4. Alternatively, tap Open in Place (the app’s icon) to enter the Extension.

    Right now, the Extension menu can be entered from two places: you either choose Save in Documents or tap the app’s icon under the iOS Share menu.

    Tip: When it comes to PDF format, Open in Place automatically opens the file in the app without offering the Extension options. You can still trigger the Extension if you choose Save in Documents for PDFs.
    Note: You can choose any folder as a default destination folder except for Documents in iCloud, iTunes file sharing or a synced folder.

    Save files to a specific folder in Documents using the Files app

    1. Open the needed file in a third-party app you work with and tap the Share button.
    2. Tap Save to Files.
    3. When the Files app is launched, tap the Documents extension in the list of apps and select the folder you would like to save the file to. As a result, the file will be saved to the selected folder of the Documents app.
    Note: If Documents is not in the list of extensions in the Files app, open the Files app > Browse view > More button at the top right corner > select Edit > enable Documents toggle in the list of Locations > tap Done. Now you will have access to the local files and folders in Documents via the Files app.
    Note: To troubleshoot the cases when the Documents app does not appear in the list of extensions, please see the following article.


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