First of all, in the file system you get the path of a URL with the path property. self.path = url.path But you don’t need that at all. You can retrieve the file size from the URL directly: self.path = String(describing: self.file!) // url to string do { let resources = try url.resourceValues(forKeys:[.fileSizeKey]) let fileSize … Read more
Update for iOS 14: You do not need any capabilities. Just create a UIDocumentPickerViewController with the appropriate types, implement the delegate, and you are done. More info in this answer. Code from there: import UIKit import MobileCoreServices import UniformTypeIdentifiers func selectFiles() { let types = UTType.types(tag: “json”, tagClass: UTTagClass.filenameExtension, conformingTo: nil) let documentPickerController = UIDocumentPickerViewController( … Read more