How to open zip files with an iPad 1. Locate the Files app — its icon is white with a blue folder — and launch it. The Files app is installed on your iPad by default. Steven John/Business ...

You can unzip a file on a Mac by double-clicking on it, or by right-clicking and selecting "Open." The unzipped file will expand its content into a folder on your desktop. If you have a RAR file ...

You can also make zip files on an iPhone and iPad now, so we’ll show you how to do that, too. These steps should always work with zip files, and it also appears to work with tar.gz files.

7-Zip is a free, open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. This software can be used on any computer, including the ones in a commercial organization.

We'll also look at how to open one to see its contents, and how to convert the files inside to a different format, or convert the ZIP itself to another archive format like TAR.GZ or RAR.