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Do I need to have iWork on my iOS device in order to view files that are stored in iCloud Drive?

I was hoping that iCloud Drive would allow us to view files on our iPhones or iPads without having Pages, Numbers, or even Word, Excel, etc... When I did the update to iOS 8 I found that there was no separate app for iCloud Drive, thus no way to simply view files stored on iCloud Drive. I understand not being able to edit the files without having iWork or Office programs installed. Does anyone know if we will have this capability or if I'm just missing it? If this option isn't going to be provided to us, I'll be forced to continue to use Dropbox to view files on iOS devices (even though we can't view iWork files on iOS Dropbox anymore...)

iPhone 5, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 17, 2014 7:31 PM

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Sep 20, 2014 4:21 PM in response to karal0zan0

To elaborate on my question, this is what I was expecting. The iPad and iPhone in this picture looks as though there is a place on iOS where you can see all of the files that are located in iCloud Drive. You can also see that each file has an associated tag (the colored dots) which we were able to start using on Mavericks. I understand that the Mac you see in the picture has iCloud Drive as a native(ish) drive on the computer which will be available with Yosemite, but I don't understand where on the iPhone/iPad these shots were taken from, assuming it's iOS 8.0


On the up side, I just received my iPhone 6 today to find that iPhone6 and 6+ users are given Pages, Numbers, and Keynote free for their iOS devices.


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Sep 20, 2014 4:35 PM in response to Me1978

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that makes sense with iWork, that you would not be able to view, for instance, a PDF or Word file in iWork. I guess I was just assuming that there would be an app where you could access (but not edit) any file stored in iCloud Drive, similar to the Dropbox app for iOS devices. (As Dropbox, no longer lets you view files on the iOS app, I was hoping that iCloud Drive would be more user-friendly.


Do you have an idea where the location of that picture that I attached in my last reply was on the iPhone and iPad? I think that's the reason I thought there would be a separate iCloud Drive app... because Apple's website has had those pictures up since they announced new iOS 8 features a few months back and it kinda looked like it would have its own app.

Do I need to have iWork on my iOS device in order to view files that are stored in iCloud Drive?

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