Google Drive for iOS now helps you to filter searches utilizing dropdown menus for File Kind, House owners, and Final Modified, the corporate wrote on Friday in its Workspace Updates weblog. The dropdown menus present up earlier than and after a search, and related filter suggestions will present up in addition to customers sort.
Google says the replace is out there to Google Workspace prospects and particular person subscribers, in addition to anybody with a private Google account on iOS. The characteristic hasn’t been rolled out for Android customers but, however Google says that’s coming, too.
Right here’s a display screen recording I made to indicate the way it works:
The brand new filter replace makes it rather more nice to go looking and browse for information whenever you don’t know the place they’re. As an illustration, if you already know you’re on the lookout for a video saved in Drive however don’t know what it’s referred to as, you possibly can simply faucet the Movies file sort, then select “custom range” beneath the final modified and seek for the time interval you final touched it. I’d like to see this up to date to let me filter by different forms of dates or file sizes.
It’s a marked enchancment to Google’s earlier strategy, which concerned filter recommendations and swipeable filters. Seems, dropdown menus are nonetheless the very best. Who’d have thought?