# Reading text files from device

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/reading-text-files-from-device/76208>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [May 12, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/reading-text-files-from-device/76208 "2019-05-12T19:14:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![actech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 7:26am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/reading-text-files-from-device/76208/8 "2019-05-14T07:26:21Z")

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Hi,

You can see an example of selecting files on iOS on the scrFileViewer screen from the project

[https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5cd84f23e3097f3353fdad45/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5cd84f23e3097f3353fdad45/project/properties/designer/)

This method allows you to see photos, html, txt, etc. That’s only on Android, this method, unfortunately, does not work for some strange reason.

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