Syncs them to all your devices? Accessibility?

[LorenAmelang]

I see here on GitHub:
"It saves your scans into its built-in library, and syncs them to all your devices."

I have OpenScanner on my tiny iPhone SE2020 and my iPad 12.9 5gen, both with the latest iOS 18. They do not seem to be connected. What am I missing?

I can't find any of its files On My iPad or in iCloud. I guess it does say "built-in library", but I'd find it more convenient to just open the library in the Files app.

I was testing with my phone while writing this, and opened a scan from last night. Accidentally discovered if I tap the image I get a resizeable full screen version. Hit the Back text, and saw the previous screen. Hit the Scans text, and now the image is gone! The name and time are still there but all three default images are blank. And then I tried swiping along the blank images, and accidentally deleted the whole thing! Maybe there should be a confirmation choice before deletion...

Also... Those "Back" and "Scans" text buttons are impossibly pale on my screens! At first I didn't realize they existed, and I had to turn my brightness up to max to actually read them. Could they be the same color as the "Share" label?

But wow! So easy to get a properly framed scan! Even in dim light the text is perfect. Thank You!

[benjaminfox]

Thanks for the feedback!

I have OpenScanner on my tiny iPhone SE2020 and my iPad 12.9 5gen, both with the latest iOS 18. They do not seem to be connected. What am I missing?

I can't find any of its files On My iPad or in iCloud. I guess it does say "built-in library", but I'd find it more convenient to just open the library in the Files app.

That's fair, although syncing large files through the built-in Files app can be less reliable in practice. If your devices use the same Apple ID, the files shown within Open Scanner should be the same. Are they?

I was testing with my phone while writing this, and opened a scan from last night. Accidentally discovered if I tap the image I get a resizeable full screen version. Hit the Back text, and saw the previous screen. Hit the Scans text, and now the image is gone! The name and time are still there but all three default images are blank. And then I tried swiping along the blank images, and accidentally deleted the whole thing! Maybe there should be a confirmation choice before deletion...

Sounds like a bug, thank you for the detailed steps. I'll try to reproduce this and ticket it separately.

Also... Those "Back" and "Scans" text buttons are impossibly pale on my screens! At first I didn't realize they existed, and I had to turn my brightness up to max to actually read them. Could they be the same color as the "Share" label?

Likewise for this :)

[LorenAmelang]

@benjaminfox

That's fair, although syncing large files through the built-in Files app can be less reliable in practice. If your devices use the same Apple ID, the files shown within Open Scanner should be the same. Are they?

My normal workflow is based on Arch Linux, and I use the Secure ShellFish app on iOS to move things there. iCloud is the least friendly place to access.

I just checked iPhone and iPad, and both wanted me to sign in. The same account name and password on both. OpenScanner only shows the files each device created locally, no sync.

Not a huge problem, I'd generally export the files via Share and ShellFish directly to one of my Linux devices. But being able to do it from either iDevice would be nice...