{"id":23357,"date":"2018-11-12T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23357"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:15:43","slug":"an-unzipping-shortcut-for-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/an-unzipping-shortcut-for-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unzipping Shortcut for iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2018\/11\/an-unzipping-shortcut\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2018\/11\/an-unzipping-shortcut\/\"><p>Apple provides the product images as zipped archives, so when I clicked on the link in the press release, I was confronted with this &ldquo;what do I do?&rdquo; screen in Safari.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I went to the Shortcuts Gallery and searched on &ldquo;zip,&rdquo; &ldquo;unzip,&rdquo; and &ldquo;archive.&rdquo; There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/8e69e4b15d92422db8171677050f2311\">a shortcut<\/a> for zipping up a bunch of files and putting them into an email message, but nothing for unzipping and saving. I also couldn&rsquo;t find anything by Googling. So I made my own.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there&rsquo;s not much to it. You can make it yourself or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/4fe51396c4904d0482020dafbf78df05\">download it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Shortcuts app has a built-in &ldquo;Extract Archive&rdquo; action, but this capability is missing from the Files app, even though most third-party file manager apps have supported it for a long time. And one could argue that Safari should just view ZIP archives directly.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: Apple provides the product images as zipped archives, so when I clicked on the link in the press release, I was confronted with this &ldquo;what do I do?&rdquo; screen in Safari. [&#8230;] I went to the Shortcuts Gallery and searched on &ldquo;zip,&rdquo; &ldquo;unzip,&rdquo; and &ldquo;archive.&rdquo; There was a shortcut for zipping up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-12T20:56:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"fb97c20e-91c4-4b97-a841-e0c317691f68","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-10-21T18:15:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A-5fCDpHES5eoQeDDF2kfaA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1582,31,1610,103,1686,2673],"class_list":["post-23357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-files-app","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-safari","tag-shortcuts","tag-zip-archive"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23364,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23357\/revisions\/23364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}