# Add menu option "Open file in default app" in mobile too

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/add-menu-option-open-file-in-default-app-in-mobile-too/74812>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** android, mobile\
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/add-menu-option-open-file-in-default-app-in-mobile-too/74812 "2024-01-11T23:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![chriswaterguy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/chriswaterguy/32/16199_2.png) [@chriswaterguy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/chriswaterguy)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/add-menu-option-open-file-in-default-app-in-mobile-too/74812/6 "2024-10-16T13:14:51Z")

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I support this as well.

I was surprised to discover that the “Share” option works for PDFs, and actually saved the annotations to the file in my Obsidian vault rather than saving a new copy. (At least for me – Shaiya, did you test this?)

_However_ this is not at all obvious.

And it’s not fully functional: “Share” also let me open an image file, but I got an error when I tried to edit it (“Couldn’t load file”).

## Related feature requests

For the record, there have been at least two other feature requests for this, with no resolution, but they closed due to inactivity.

- [“Open in default app” on Mobile](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-in-default-app-on-mobile/70726)
- [Open PDFs and images in external app on android tablet](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-pdfs-and-images-in-external-app-on-android-tablet/34521)
- And a request for a setting to _always_ open PDF files in default app, which I also support: [One-click PDF files opening in default system app](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/one-click-pdf-files-opening-in-default-system-app/42918)

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