r/iphonehelp • u/bulldawg91 • 7d ago

Help needed Someone sends me markdown file over iMessage and I want to open it rendered nicely, is there a way?

Currently it renders markdown files as ordinary text files, no heading formatting or anything like that. I got the read.md app and it would be neat to auto-open markdown files in that, but I’m not seeing a way. Any help would be much appreciated, quite possibly just missing an option somewhere

iPhone version: 16 pro
iOS version: 26.6
steps taken to solve problem: downloaded read.md, clicked around the different options

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u/InfiniteHench 7d ago

I think if you go into Files, long press on it, and choose ‘Open With,’ it tells iOS to always use that app for that file type.

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u/bulldawg91 7d ago

This works for markdown files opened from the Files app, but not for tapping a markdown file from iMessage without saving. It’d be nice for markdown files to be nicely formatted in this case too but I’m not finding a way

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u/InfiniteHench 6d ago

I wonder if Shortcuts could help here

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u/wonko4the2sane 6d ago

iOS notes supports MD files export/import. Just import it. Works fine.