How to Create a Desktop Shortcut for Google Docs on iPhone or iPad

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This wikiHow teaches you how to create a shortcut icon of a document from your Google Drive storage, and save it to your iPhone or iPad's home screen.

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Delete Google Docs and Google Drive from your iPhone or iPad. You'll have to delete both of these apps from your phone or tablet before you can create a document shortcut on your home screen.
- If you're not sure how remove an app from your iPhone or iPad, you can check out an article on how to delete apps.
- You can download and install these apps again after creating your document shortcut.
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The Safari icon looks like a blue compass. You can find it on your home screen, or in an app folder.

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Go to the Google Drive website in Safari. Type drive.google.com into your browser's address bar, and hit the blue Go button on your keyboard.
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Scroll down your Drive files to find the document you want to create a shortcut of, and open it.
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Tap the

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icon at the bottom. This is your Share button on a toolbar at the bottom of Safari. It will open your options menu.
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You can find it on the bottom row of the pop-up menu. This will allow you to name your shortcut on a new page.
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Enter a name for your shortcut. Tap the name field above the URL link on the "Add to Home" page, and enter a name for your document shortcut.
- This is an optional step. If you don't want to change the default shortcut name here, you can skip it.
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Tap Add on the top-right. This is a blue button in the upper-right corner of your screen. This will create a shortcut icon of the selected document, and save it to your home screen.
- If you tap the shortcut on your home screen, you'll be redirected to this document in Safari.
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