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# Google Drive: Simplify Your Digital Life with New Scan Feature
- URL: https://www.jeffsu.org/newsletter-178/
- Published: 2024-09-19T13:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T12:49:41.000Z
- Description: #178
- Author: Jeff
- Tags: #newsletter, Google Drive

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Hey friends - I didn’t want you to find out this way but I have to come clean: I used to rely on iCloud instead of Google Drive.

🤯

Blasphemous, I know.

In my defense, scanning documents onto iCloud was **so simple** compared to the experience for Google Drive.

But not anymore!

## Google Drive on Android

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/09/Screenshot_20240918-141710.png)

After opening up the Google Drive app, you can now click this “Camera” icon to start scanning documents immediately.

The truly “revolutionary” change is actually what comes next: we get to choose whether we want to save the scanned file as a PDF or an image!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/09/Screenshot_20240918-141814.png)

## Google Drive on iPhone

The process differs slightly on the iPhone:

- After opening Google Drive, we need to click on the “Plus” icon as opposed to the “Scan” icon
- We can now choose to scan a document (as a PDF) or simply take and upload an image directly

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/85/db858a9d-1c4f-4993-8042-faa87b9bb3c1/content/images/2024/09/Screenshot-2024-09-18-at-14.27.18.jpeg)

**Note:** If you click the “Scan” icon in the iOS app, you will not have the option to convert the scan to an image.

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