For iOS 16 and later, Apple has introduced a macOS feature in the Files app that allows you to convert file formats on your iPhone without needing any third-party apps. If you often download or ...

Managing files on an iPhone has become significantly easier with recent updates to iOS, particularly with the introduction of the ability to change file extensions directly within the Files app.

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...

On computers and mobile devices, file extensions are the suffixes that apps append to filenames. When you see an item like "document.docx" for example, the .docx extension tells the computer and the ...

The default Android file manager is a serviceable app. It does what you need and not much more. Plus, like all built-in Android apps, it plays well with the operating system and has a consistent look ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

One of our readers reported that all the file extensions have changed to some unknown file format. If so, it could be a virus! If a virus has changed all the files extensions to unknown applications, ...

Every day, we come across different types of file extensions while working on a computer. The file extensions tell an operating system about the type of file so that the OS could select the right app ...