Ever since upgrading to iOS 9 on my iPad Air 2, I no longer see the "Open In" option in Safari when accessing a .doc or .ppt. How do I get that functionality back? I'm dead in the water without it.
iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 9
Safari can't open those extensions. To view them you need to download them to your device and open them with Pages or Keynote.
I can still open those extension now in I OS 9, however, the "Open in" functionality (to download the file to my iPad) is not there. Prior to iOS 9, I would go to a file in Safari with .doc or .ppt extension, and I would be able to use the "Open in" to select PowerPoint or Keynote or Word or Pages. However, that option is not available anymore. Now I have no way to download those files to my iPad. Is there another way to do it in IOS 9?
I too have an iPad2: no "open in" in Safari. I don't remember if it was in iOS8 or before.
In iPad2 there are more "castrations" in iOS9 than just this.
Lex
This decreased functionality of iOS9 is killing my workflow! Now I'm wishing I had never upgraded. I liked iOS8 just as it was.
Please, Apple iOS9 overlords, please give me back my ability to "Open In" for .doc .xls, and .ppt. Please?
Overlords they are, but they are not here. here are only users like you and me.
If you want to reach Apple you have to go through the Feedback channel (on every Apple site). But it will not be answered, you will never know if they are working on it or not.
Thanks, Lex! Where exactly is this Feedback Channel?
Never mind. I found it.
This certainly is NOT "Solved", and it is incorrect-- iOS Safari can indeed open .doc and .xls files; what was removed was the ability to send the document to another app. QuickTimeKirk suggesting we download them to our device and use Pages, Keynote, or Numbers to open the file is quite absurd, because THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO! Without any way of moving this document from Safari to another app, how exactly do you expect us to do this???
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.xls show only header, what should I do? We can not work with iPhone?
I'm having the same problem too. It's driving me crazy. I can't open my documents in Adobe or even preview them on HP eprint before printing. I tried the print option but the document alignment was all out (it's a microsoft word document). How to open the document in another app?? I can't do my work like this. I want the open in option back. I wish I never updated to iOS 9.
I found a work around for this... at least it works with .doc or .docx files
Open the document on safari then choose "safe PDF to iBooks" from the menu bar. iBooks will convert it to PDF. Open iBooks send it to your self as email attatchment (function available on iBooks), open your mail, download the document and then "open in" menu will appear, select whatever app you want (that is compatible with PDF reading files).
I really hope they fix this soon.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this workaround (at least for opening PDFs): Use the Google Chrome browser for iPhone. When you tap a link that opens PDF file, the "Open in..." option appears in the bottom right corner of the screen. Then just pick the app you'd like to open it in (e.g. "Copy to iBooks).
JJW
with the update it no longer shows the option of opening up a power point from safari! please help!!!!
As others have said elsewhere the 9.0.1 patch doesn't fix this.
Seriously Apple did no one test such an obvious piece of functionality!
iOS 9 safari no open in option for .doc or .ppt
