Setting iPad to default to V1 when opening files?

[awakenedbyowls]

Been asked before - asking again because I don't know what to search for

Yet again, simple operations on iPadOS turn out to be a cryptic puzzle. I thought they were supposed to design the Apple OS for accessibility and ease of use?

I'm doing some work and I don't want to do it on V2 in case I choose not to upgrade, and then I can't do anything more with the file(s)?

So in the meantime I would like my files to just open up in V1 (unless I specify otherwise)

[awakenedbyowls]

Can someone point me to the setting to sort this - otherwise I'm taking V2 of my iPad (until I decide to buy it - if I decide to buy it)

Why are V1 files opening up in V2 by default? Just open with the damn app that created the file - if i want to move my work to V2 then I'll open them up and save them as a V2 file!

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, awakenedbyowls said:

Why are V1 files opening up in V2 by default?

Probably because the file extension is the same. Can’t you used the ‘Share’ options to open them in version 1?

If all else fails, copy the file and use ‘New From Clipboard’ in the version 1 app.

[awakenedbyowls]

3 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Probably because the file extension is the same. Can’t you used the ‘Share’ options to open them in version 1?

If all else fails, copy the file and use ‘New From Clipboard’ in the version 1 app.

Oh yes that's it - SHARE! Because if I want to open a file in a program then that's defined as "sharing" the file 🤦‍♂️ who the hell at Apple comes up with these alternative wordings?

I remember a while ago now trying to figure out how to open files the equivalent way of Right Click > Open With and since I hardly ever opened files this way on my iPad I ended up forgetting how to do it - then (again) when I go looking and I see Share it makes me think of Sharing on social media or something. Can't we just have some sort of standard user language classification for Operating Systems like in Science?

I think they also do this to discourage people from switching platforms - so we basically have to spend our lives constantly being irked by all the various companies arranging their software as different as possible to their competitors because they want to hold on to their market base through ethically questionable stealth marketing strategies.

Thanks Alf

[walt.farrell]

Another user (perhaps @Paul Mudditt) has posted before about setting up iPad Shortcuts to tell iPadOS which application to use when opening a particular file extension. Apparently, using Shortcuts, iPadOS remembers the last application it used, and then will use that application automatically in the future.

I have not yet tried this myself.

[Paul Mudditt]