Hi Charles,

In my experience as a longtime iPhone user, when you download a PDF to an iPhone it goes to the Files app, not the Books app. Folders can be viewed within the Files app, but there is not an app just called Folders or Downloads.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,


Nora Weston, MS in Library Science
Scholarly Communications Librarian (Contractor)
NIEHS Library
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [CODE4LIB] iPhone to laptop PC - seeing a PDF once devices are connected

My esteemed listmates,

I've watched many YT videos and read a plethora of Googled results.

They primarily tend to suggest that once an iPhone user has received a PDF in their email then cnan then simply click  on that PDF and Save that to Books, Photo Library or Downloads.

My "in the trenches" experience is that some iPhone reveal those iPhone "folders"and some do not.

Even the iPhones which can save to Downloads there is no Downloads displayed on screen when you connect their iPhone to a laptop PC running Windows 10.

All you see is the Apple Phone or iPhone icon along the left list of your devices (above C drive, etc.)

Once you click on that "Apple icon" you see Internal Storage and once clicked you see DCIM and once clicked you see "folders" (as Windows names them) with only a bunch of numbers as the name of that folder.

Ex. 227024, 2272027, etc.

You don't see "Downloads", Photo Library, or Books.

When we've helped the patron open these numbered folders, their PDF they saved to Downloads or Photo Library is not in there.

Patrons often do not have nor bring their data cord to the library so we have several data cords for older iPhones or tablets as well as a new adapter which connects to their newer iPhone or tablet.

For those who have recently (last 3 months) saved a PDF in their Gmail or Yahoo to their iPhone or Tablet and then dragged that saved file to a Windows 10 PC, would you please share step by step how you accomplished this task?

Perhaps, there is an app needed to be downloaded and installed on the iPhone or tablet to do this on some phones/tablets?

Thank you,

Charles.

Charlotte County Public Library
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