UIDocumentPickerViewController with kUTTypeFolder - All 3rd party providers are greyed out

When I use the UIDocumentPickerViewController with kUTTypeFolder I am only able to pick from the providers built-in to iOS/iPad OS, such as On My iPad, iCloud Drive, network shares and USB drives. As of beta 4, 3rd party providers are shown, but disabled (not selectable or browsable).


I have not been able to find any information on whether or not 3rd party providers will be supported by the release of iPad OS 13. I am hoping this will be possible in a future build (or at least something 3rd party providers can enable) since this is a big driving factor for enabling us to ditch a *lot* of custom cloud storage code.


Any info (or if anyone knows either way) would be much appreciated!

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I have been instructed by DTS to file a bug report for this. For anyone else affected by this issue -- PLEASE file your own bug report so this can be properly escalated (e.g. looked at sooner than with only one report): https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

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same for me...even with shouldShowFileExtensions property to true.


Are you able to read the contents of a file?

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I am able to read folders picked from "On My iPad", "iCloud Drive", USB drives and SMB shares. The only issue I have is not being able to pick a folder from 3rd party providers like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, PDF Export, and so on.


All 3rd party providers are greyed out, even though the documentation says: "With iOS 13, users can select a directory from any of the available file providers using a 

UIDocumentPickerViewController
." I have not found any mention of exceptions to this, so I am at a loss as to if this is an intended limitation, or if there are some additional steps I need to take to enable selecting a folder from a 3rd party provider.
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I have been instructed by DTS to file a bug report for this. For anyone else affected by this issue -- PLEASE file your own bug report so this can be properly escalated (e.g. looked at sooner than with only one report): https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

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Yeah, this has been a problem for a while now. I’ve thought that it was an issue with Dropbox or Google, but I’ll go ahead and file a bug now for it.
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I have the same problem. I will also send a bug report.
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Tomeu Masco
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Bug report sent as well.

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