There are countless times that the native “Save to Files” shortcut doesn’t appear in the share sheet when it is needed. I think you have met such situations many times before. For example, my colleague had sent me an important PDF file via the Messenger app but when I opened it, I could not save the PDF file to the Files app because the native shortcut “Save to Files” in iOS just didn’t appear. Then I created this simple shortcut to help myself in such situations. Now I want to share it with you.

With this shortcut:

• You can save an image from a website/URL to the Files app (instead of the Photos app). This function is enough to replace my old shortcut “Save Image to Files” (link of my old shortcut: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/14145/ )

• You can save various files (such as images, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF files) from the internet or on your device to the Files app.

NOTE: By default, the files will be downloaded into the folder “Downloads” (in “On my iPhone”) inside the Files app.

New version 1.5: Now you can choose between two options: quickly save to the default directory (folder “Downloads” in “On my iPhone”), or save to any different directory that you want. Also, I changed the icon for the shortcut.