Full screen in files app

Is there anyway to get ride of this side bar when you have multiple pages, as highlighted in screenshot below

iPad Air 5 Wi-Fi

Posted on May 17, 2022 12:57 AM

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Posted on May 17, 2022 1:12 AM

Unfortunately not. The PDF Viewer within the native Files App will always show the thumbnail preview strip at the left-side of the page. You are not the first to seek the ability to suppress this view.


The native PDF Viewer used to have the preview strip positioned on the right-hand side of the screen. Due to complaints from many right-handed iPad Users, Apple - instead of making the item configurable - responded by moving the strip to the left-side - now frustrating the left-handed User community and those that would simply like to hide the strip.


Apple invite submission of comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. For iPad and iPadOS:

Feedback - iPad - Apple



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May 17, 2022 1:12 AM in response to Oscargarv

Unfortunately not. The PDF Viewer within the native Files App will always show the thumbnail preview strip at the left-side of the page. You are not the first to seek the ability to suppress this view.


The native PDF Viewer used to have the preview strip positioned on the right-hand side of the screen. Due to complaints from many right-handed iPad Users, Apple - instead of making the item configurable - responded by moving the strip to the left-side - now frustrating the left-handed User community and those that would simply like to hide the strip.


Apple invite submission of comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. For iPad and iPadOS:

Feedback - iPad - Apple



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