The Files app on iPadOS 26 has had quite a few nice new features this year. But one of my favourite features in Files — in fact, in iPadOS 26 in general — is the ability to pin a regularly used folder to your dock, so it appears everywhere you are on your iPad.

That means you can quickly access your files and folders with just one tap. You haven’t got to navigate to the Files app and then find the folder you want.

So, all I’m going to do is long press on the folder that I want to add. And then, at the bottom, I’m going to scroll all the way down and choose Add to Dock. It really is that simple.

Now, when I come out of Files and go back to my Home Screen, I can see on the right-hand side of the dock, I’ve got a new stack of icons. Tapping on here opens up a fan view, and it’s the contents of that folder that I’ve just selected. From here, I can jump onto a file or folder by simply tapping it.

But actually, if I long press on the icon in the dock itself, I’ve got a few options I can customise. For example, I quite like seeing more icons on the screen, so rather than opening in a fan, I’m going to choose Grid View instead. And we can also choose how to organise the files and contents in that folder. I’m going to sort mine by name so I can easily find what I’m looking for.

And of course, here we can also remove it from the dock if we wanted to. But now, when I tap onto that folder, all of my documents are going to be organised by name in that grid view, and I can simply tap onto any of them to open it — just like that.

The last thing to quickly show you is that if I long press on that dock folder again, I can go back to the Files app and I can see that folder in context. That means I can find other files that perhaps aren’t in that folder, but that I know live in the same sort of place on my device.

And I can have more than one folder in the dock as well. In fact, the dock can now support up to 23 different items, and that can be a combination of folders and, of course, apps as well.

I just wish we could customise the preview that showed up on the dock. I’d like to have the folder icon with the colour and the emoji that I set, rather than a preview of the files, because that will change regularly. I don’t think you can do that yet, but if I’m wrong, please let me know in the comments — and hopefully that will be coming soon.

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