iPad Files app loading very slowly

Same problem! When I select the ‘on my ipad’ folder, it takes more than 10 minutes to load. But if I select other folders such as google drive or icloud drive, they works fine!

Looks like ios 17 issues. This is infuriating since this problem render my ‘on my ipad’ folder in files app unusable!

Googled but no answer for now.

Apple pls fix this problem fast!

The same thing has happened to me on my iPhone. Anything on the "on my iPhone" in the files app takes multiple minutes to open, including files, folders, etc. I have Plenty of empty storage space too. I agree that this seems to be an IOS 17.4 issue.

Not only that, the whole app crashes on M2 version while loading large PDFs…

Hello,

Did you find a solution to this problem. I really cannot work smoothly and it is very annoying to wait for even a minute sometimes. please let me know if anything worked for you.

Thank you.

Agreed, I've had a similar issue as of 17.4

For me the same ! It clearly isn’t related to the storage that is left as I still have over 400 GB space left. Is there maybe a relationship between the kind of files that are in our storage ? Doc files xml etc?

Facing the same problem here 😠

I am having this problem as well. I am kind of aggravated that no one has responded to this thread. This basically just started from what I can tell with the most recent update of ipad os 17.4.1... on my 12.9" Ipad Pro M1...

It's been happening to me too. I copy and paste a lot of files around, usually around 1mb PDF's and it takes sometimes 5-10min to up to an hour to load the PDF. I've also dealt with losing files for seemingly no reason. Unacceptable since I use the iPad for work.

Same here with my otherwise very snappy 12.9 inch iPad Pro 4th gen. Still around 50% free storage.

ack! this is my issue. os17.4... then file manager cannot access icloud files.... still no solution?

Update: Since I suspected some sort of broken file to cause the problem and I was in no mood to reset my iPad today, I started deleting all files I no longer need on my iPad. It also seemed to me as if the long loading scenarios were even worse in my Downloads folder compared to other folders which was why I started deleting there. I also uninstalled almost all of my custom font configuration profiles. Since then everything works as smooth as before! :)

Iphone 15 pro 17.5.1

Files app started loading slow when I did a change on the Files icloud folder

Since then loading for on my iphone file documents gets worse. Loading takes more and more

Especially the folder I changed on icloud loads slower on the Files on my iphone folder

I deleted and reinstalled files app (did not lose any file) it gets better but not as fast as before.

This situation is awful.

I hope somebody will come soon with a solution