

Under iOS 11, this is made easier by tying into the architecture used by Apple’s Files app, which also acts as go-between for other apps that support it. However, you can also import from cloud sources, such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, and others.

If you’re importing photos from a camera’s memory card, they must still be transferred using the default method of copying them first to the Photos app. A few readers commented in our review of Affinity Photo for Mac that the performance of the Windows version lags on some systems.Īffinity Photo for iPad runs on the following models: iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, 10.5-inch, and 12.9-inch. That works for some people, and not for others, for various reasons.

We’ve come to expect less from iOS software on the iPad compared to desktop applications because, in most cases, they’re mobile-and “mobile” has traditionally meant “limited.” A lot of that has been due to hardware: even as the iPad’s main processors improved, most models included a minimal amount of RAM that made it difficult to pull off operations expected of a modern image editor, such as smoothly dealing with many layers and real-time effects.
