Google Drive "content unavailable" in Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Files apps

I”m running into this exact same issue. Pretty frustrating, and certainly not in a position to do a factory reset so I hope Apple addresses this soon.

I just tried activating Google Drive in Numbers on my iPad Pro, iOS 12.2 and it worked so there doesn’t seem to be a connection problem with Google Drive from within iOS? And once connected from within Numbers, it automatically shows up as a location in my Files app.

I assume you have no problem logging into your Google Drive account in a web browser and the content is there and intact? If that is true, I would suggest also searching Google’s own support forums for troubleshooting Google Drive access from iOS. They have trouble shooting steps for that kind of error from web browsers, but I’m just sure I’ve seen anything specifically for iOS access.

I ended up getting it to work by removing all my google accounts from the Google Drive (and all other google apps) and then added the one that I wanted to use on the Files app. I then added other accounts and it seems to be working.

Update

Well, that didn’t last long. After a bit with multiple accounts, the error came back. I went back to one Google account and it now seems to be work. So it seems files isn’t coping well with multiple Google accounts associated to the same Drive app.

So I have this same issue. I hadn’t noticed it until I tried to attach a file in an email. For some reason I cannot do that and then realized that the gdrive was not really available. I guess it is caching the file list some how, because it shows files that were there at some point, but not necessarily there now. I have been testing out using just an iPad for travel, but there is just so many things one cannot do with an iPad.

If I save the file to the iCloud it works fine. So it is all to do with apples use of the google api I guess. With Apples ridiculous cost for storage(compared to the going price) it just adds another pain for us apples users.

Apple, Dropbox and Google all charge exactly the same price for their 2TB plans - $9.99/month. Google and Apple’s price for 200GB is also identical at $2.99/month (Dropbox doesn’t offer anything between their 2GB free and their 2TB subscription). So I don’t understand where your comment about pricing is coming from?

If you know of some really less expensive online storage in the 200GB to 2TB range, I am sure people would like to know about it, and does it work with iOS? I have 50GB free Box.net from a long ago promotion when they first offered their iOS app (it has limitations of file sizes and individual uploads though), but I tend to think of Box as much more a business class solution, not a consumer cloud service.

I've struggled with this issue on and off for several months now. I've noticed that signing out of my Google account on the Google Apps and then signing back in can help for a short period.

But what I think might be key to figuring out what is going on is that every time I've seen this issue, I'm actually seeing syncing issues in the Google Drive iOS app itself. What I mean is that, when this issue with Apple Files happens, I'm actually not seeing new files show up in the Google Drive iOS app either. For example, I'll upload a file to Google Drive on the web and I see it replicate across desktop platforms, but I wont see it show up in the Google Drive iOS app. This is temporarily rectified by signing out of the Google Drive iOS app, and then signing back in again.

Maybe the Google Drive iOS app that is required to make the handoff to the Apple Files app is timing out with its authenticated connection to Google? So when Apple Files tries query Google for the updated list of files it is getting refused... Just a shot in the dark.

Well, never mind. I was able to open a single file from the Files app since last signing out of Google Drive iOS and back in again. The Google Drive iOS app is still syncing with new files, but the Files app keeps intermittently displaying "content unavailable" and not showing recently added files.

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Bro, the Files is apple app not google app.

The problem is with files app

Google Drive is not an Apple product.

Best you consult the app developer website/forum of the app.

I got problem when try to activate the google within Files app.

thanks for replying

I know, i already got a feeling, it’s something that got to do with apple

This worked for me - remove all accounts in drive app on ios, then sign back into 1 account in drive. I'm guessing the files app gets confused when there are multiple profiles linked to Drive app.