Google Drive – online backup 4+

We use this app extensively for Destiny church in Newcastle UK. It’s brilliant and really encourages teamwork. Docs is as good as Word for 95% of everyday work.
Drive’s filing system helps organise and share files across the organisation. Sheets helps us track attendance - you have to build the spreadsheet though. And slides is a smart little ppt alternative. It’s the integration that is the main strength. Other programs have more features but Drive pulls it all together like no other app we have used so far.
For a growing church like ours it is an invaluable tool and we really appreciate Google supplying this for free. I can remember in the bad old days that a 'suite of programs' with half these features would have cost at least £30 / month for a team to use and was beyond the reach of charitable users like ourselves.
Thanks Google - good job!

Google never really fail to impress me with their programmes. Having a windows 10 laptop and an iPad both for work purposes sometimes isn’t the easiest of things to handle. Communication between them through Google Docs is amazingly easy and I never have to worry about carrying the right adapters or usb sticks. All my photos Bluetooth from my camera to my iPad straight onto Google Drive so I can use them wherever. It’s cheap (or free if you just need a little bit of storage, with no restrictions so you can test it out without committing to any payments), it’s relatively low hassle, and neither device will be weighed down by any of my files. I also have the flexibility to add files from my phone or wherever I am because it’s connected to me google account! 10/10

I downloaded this and it was easy to use but my big concern is security. There is no way to password protect this app so if someone gets access to your iPad, steals it when open etc, they have access to absolutely everything in your drive area. There appears to be a way to protect Drive in The Drive Settings menu, but this is greyed out and refers you to Apple’s Touch ID, which also doesn’t let you protect the drive. I like the app but hate the security so it is being removed. I can’t risk someone swiping my iPad and getting access to important work files.

The only workaround I have found, which does not always work, is to go to the settings in Drive and sign out. But when you sign back in, the two-step authentication I have set up in my account does not work! It will accept the password (which is stored on the iPad and automatically inserted) and then you get access!

This is disappointing from Google. Security should be top of the agenda.