can i hook up a flash drive on ipad 4?

You can use a SD Card via a Camera Connection Kit to import photos and videos to iPad. It's one direction only.

http://store.apple.com/sg/product/MD822ZM/A/lightning-to-sd-card-camera-reader

Message was edited by: Diavonex

There are some flash drives that will work. I have literally had a 50/50 success rate. But even if you get it to work, all you can transfer is photos or videos that follow a very strict naming convention. You can't import anything else and you can't export anything.

Another way. You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.

Plug the USB flash drive (works the same with an SD card) into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).

Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import. (You can not export using the camera connection kit.)

Secrets of the iPad Camera Connection Kit

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57401068-285/secrets-of-the-ipad-camera-conn ection-kit/

 Cheers, Tom 😉

There are some wireless file transfer devices that accept flash drives and allow some types of f.es to transfer.