Google Drive search on iOS will get higher filtering choices

Google Drive for iOS now helps you to filter searches utilizing dropdown menus for File Sort, 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 on the market to Google Workspace prospects and particular person subscribers, in addition to anybody with a private Google account on iOS. The function 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 point out the way it works:

The brand new filter replace makes it far more nice to look and browse for information if you don’t know the place they’re. For example, if you’re in search of a video saved in Drive however do not know what it’s referred to as, you possibly can simply faucet the Movies file sort, then select “customized vary” underneath 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 strategies and swipeable filters. Seems, dropdown menus are nonetheless one of the best. Who’d have thought?