iOS: Why exactly is the "iCloud documents" capability needed?

[chrisbobbe]

The README says,

You need to enable iCloud Documents to access iCloud

and it gives a helpful screenshot to show how to enable it in Xcode.

But the statement doesn't seem to be true. Without enabling the capability, I had no trouble accessing "iCloud Drive" as a location in the document picker, and picking files from there. This was on an iPhone at iOS 13.7; see screenshots below.

❓ Is there some other functionality that react-native-document-picker provides, that needs this capability? Or maybe the relevant iOS APIs have changed since that statement was added?

A relevant Apple doc says (in a section called "Enable iCloud document storage"):

Document storage makes an app's documents available on all user devices.

My app doesn't have its own documents. It just needs to let the user choose and upload one of their documents from somewhere else. So I think I don't need to enable the capability (and then go and make sure I'm executing 10 very detailed "App Responsibilities for Using iCloud Documents").

[vonovak]

hello, the instruction was added in 2016 in this commit: 04f28dd#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5

it is indeed possible that this is not needed; I will remove that part of the doc. Thank you!