Please add an app extension for editing pictures from other apps

[David Cartier]

Could you add an iOS app extension? When we find an image in Apple Photos, or Files, or Dropbox, or Google Drive, or lots of others, an app extension would make it much easier and faster to switch to Affinity Photo and start editing it.

[WoodWorkerPaul]

i came out here to ask for the same thing!  I hate the editor in iOS 11 Photos.  It would be great to have a convenient way to to call up Affinity from the extensions menu! 

[Alfred]

On iOS 11 you can use Drag & Drop, as demonstrated about a minute and a half into this video:

 

 

[DM1]

I agree it would be nice if 'Open in AP’ was available in the context menus. Most apps have this facility built in. Very useful workflow aid.

[ElbertStevenson]

Why not use a photo editing application?

[David Cartier]

5 hours ago, ElbertStevenson said:

Why not use a photo editing application?

Well that’s what I’m trying to do, I’d just like an app extension to help make it much faster. Let me share an example: let’s say I’m looking at one of my photos in the Files app on my iPad.

Right now, if I want to edit that photo in Affinity Photo, I’d have to:

1. Exit the Files app and manually open Affinity Photo
2. Create a new project
3. Manually browse back to that photo in Affinity Photo

But if there was an Affinity Photo app extension in the system wide Share menu, I could simply click that menu, select ‘Open in Affinity Photo,’ and it automatically does all those steps for me. It’s much, much faster.

[TreMorNZ]

You can work around this limitation by creating an iOS shortcut with the „Open in...“ function, setting the app to open the file in to Affinity Photo, and adding it to the share sheet.

Basically does what you are all asking for, don‘t ask me why Affinity didn’t add it to the Photos app. If you use the Files app, and select share on a photo, there is actually an „Open in Photo“ option which Affinity give us built in, which tells me they are still thinking of us using the program with a folder file management mindset. To be fair, for anyone working with large amounts of RAW files, using the Photos app would not be realistic, so working off/with external storage (and the then necessary Files app) makes the most sense anyway.

[Philip]

Having watched the above video explaining how you could move multiple files across the iPad I expected to find that you would all say,”Oh that’s brilliant” and regard the solution as the way to go. I myself come from 30 years of Mac file structure and ext use and have been feeling orphaned/abandoned by Mac with the iPad Pro until I saw that video, so why didn’t you see what I saw? 

TreMorNZ at least has found other methods but Serif has created the best, you don’t seem to see it though.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Philip
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[Alfred]

3 hours ago, Philip said:

TreMorNZ at least has found other methods but Serif has created the best

The method shown in the video makes use of an iOS feature. In other words, it was created by Apple rather than Serif.