slow usb-c transfer speeds, reliability and Files app bugs, iPad OS, iPad Pro 2018

I just want to open GoPro videos on iPad or transfer files from sd card to iPad. It’s just a simple thing. I see people on YouTube open directly from microSD and works fine...I just can’t do that...It’s just so frustrating....

Really?!?

Why do we have to “fight the system” Apple designed; Apple has had ample chance to change to the better - to no avail!

That’s in no way “Pro”, outside the most hallowed parts of the ”UFO” in Cupertino.

Either the system delivers - it does not - or it doesn’t, in which case it is a waste of time to continue to fiddle with this, that or the other band-aid with little or no effect.

That’s only my two cents.

The files app is flawed for sure along with transfer speeds. Too me its all in the software. Apple is doing this intentionally for some weird reason, a lot of users will return their ipad pros because of it. Maybe next years ipad pro will be thunderbolt 3 as a selling point "Now with fast transfer speeds!"... Odlly very few people complain about it on the web and most big youtubers don't talk about transfer rates for some reason like 9 to 5 Mac. I'm guessing the new iPad Pro 2020 has the same issues but have not seen anyone test the transfer speeds yet.

In the end I love the iPad Pro for what I use it for. I can record 48 tracks of audio to it, and get the files off it to my Sandisk Pro pretty quickly now that I am formatted in APFS. I can run eight stereo synths and output them all seperately to my digital mixer. The audio apps have come a long way and the iPad is very powerful as far as CPU processing and GPU goes.

Apple should really fix this issue and then I would have no complaints.

I love my iPad Pro also...but why somes guys on YouTube open directly from sdcard 4K videos and I can’t even open an 1080p video?! As you all can see on my previous post on the YouTube link what’s my “problem”...

APFS ?

but im on windows ! I can't format to APFS and if you use a gopro sd card of from a camera sd, sd card formated in extFAT not APFS ! how do you do with sd or disk not in apfs ?

and why copy file from sd to ipad is fast but not ipad to sd ?

I have the exact same problem on my new 2020 iPad Pro and can’t easily transfer video off onto my back-up usb 3 sticks or SSD drives.

I’d watched all the YouTube video proclaiming the latest 2020 iPad Pro as the greatest ever for video editing on the go.

Rather than upgrade my PC and android tablet, I bit the bullet and bought the pricey iPad Pro which seemed ideal for quickly downloading my DIJ drone video to preview on the iPad before deleting the drone’s memory card.

The plan was to then edit the 4K video before saving the original files to an external hard drive and my pc.

Researching all the online reviews this should not have been a problem, but alas, I now find it really difficult and extremely slow to transfer all the 3-4 Gb video files to my backup drives.

Not only is it slow but my usb sticks and hub get very hot and the iPad’s file app just stops.

I’ve bought new drives and usb sticks thinking that was the problem.

When I occasionally do get a few video or jpeg files to transfer they are every so often corrupted or are in a totally different folders with some of the viewable jpegs split like a jigsaw!

Not sure what to do other than to try and return the iPad, any other suggestions?

Why waste time reporting to Apple, what they already know?

It’s no news anymore, and by now we must accept, that either the A-chips with The currently associated hardware and firm/software are not capable of better performance, or - if, and a big if - not the especially crippled write speeds are by design.

Just before Christmas 2019 I started pulling out of the Apple iOS/ipadOS sphere and the ‘orrible iOS 13 debacle, and now my iPad Pro (and other iPads and iPhones) will remain consume-only devices for the remainder of their lifetime with me (one old iPad is reserved for use only in the toil... Really! Keeps the germs at bay ;-).

I finally chose the more drastic approach described here (contains a lot of actual speed measurements - import/export/copy etc):

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63613663

This may not solve your problem, but it did solve mine. Little did I know, at the pandemic would limit my travel opportunities that much this, and probably also Most if not all of the coming, year.

Now my new home-brew and high performance “iClout” shared platform is beginning to show it’s real strength - in flexibility and especially speed wise; also on my external fiber-connection to the outside world.

Starting this month I also decided to pull out of the Mac(book Pro) platforms I’ve used since late 2012 (my latest MacBook Pro 13 was bought start of 2019). I still rely on my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (my trusted Methusalem Windows 10 Pro based tablet), that runs rings around the iPad Pro’s for my purposes - especially when travel and pen is involved).

The MacOS 10.15 unreliability and bug ridden horror simply was too much for me, and with yesterday’s Apple announcement (new Apple processors, new MacOS 11, Rosetta and whatnot plus phasing out of the Intel platform) my decision was confirmed. I’m no longer willing to be part of the coming “Apple fashion regime” with the (half)yearly seasonal catwalks presenting the - ahem - “new colors”.

I’ve started my transition from I.e. FCPX to DaVinci Resolve 16 (and other tools), and before Apples transition “side effects” set in in earnest for “real” users, I’m probably completely moved away from the platform.

Apple’s “overall platform integration ideas” are commendable, even interesting, but the lack of reliability, no obviously sane quality control, and now the prospect of a completely closed “Apple world” with the negative connotations of the miss in actual performance quality the last few years - by some called “code rot” - has sent me off the future Apple platform completely.

I’m simply not willing to be in any way or form involved in the transition to Apples new frontier!

You may, of course, have other priorities, but my decisions were confirmed after listening to yesterday’s Apple WWDC keynote. I’ve reached the ripe age, where I don’t even buy green bananas, and I’m certainly not willing to squander several, if not many, of my remaining years in this world on Apple getting the new platform circus on track.

If the current state of the iPad I/O is anything to go by, then... you probably get my drift by now ;-)

Regards

...and as a former software engineer (used to code device drivers for Sun Microsystems and IBM) WE BOTH KNOW that “files” is a simple app... I believe apple is not focusing on that because is not “shiny enough”.

But remember there are other people in the world that needs to get more than share instagram and make avatars to share.

Maybe I am asking too much as a customer to be able to transfer my files, know if the file was copied and how long it’ll take to copy”. I am a Apple user since 6502 and I used locksmith to copy floppies (google it) and PLEASE apple work on it.

Right now my iPad only works professionally for Lightroom (because of their cloud services). So I can “doodle” on my iPad and do the real work on my desktop PC.

I am sad, disappointed and feeling betrayed since I have to wait generations to get things in and out of my iPad “PRO” 12.9 2020 1TB.

It really is hilarious, that Apple still stresses the Pro aspect in the high-cost iPad’s and Sometimes even mentions “notebooks” in the same sentence. Have the guys in the upper echelons at Apple ever used their own hardware for anything practical besides as pure “upper management decor” (except the company iPhones ;-)

I like my iPad for photography and mundane things, but it’s really hard to get our of the apple bubble... iCloud you cannot “offload” files from the device, solution? Buy 1TB device :)

I just wish that Apple get into the boring part of the business too... I/O as example...

And to your point, Apple margins are amazing... Why not take 1B (just a tiny part of they have in cash) an invest into it?

Oh... It’s called the NEW MAC :) migrating from x86 to ARM (“cough” A-bionic processors)

Can you imagine buying the new Mac, do all your “real work” and when exporting your file to your customer at blazing USB2 speeds? AHUahuaHUaHUa

I am browsing the new AMD processors for a desktop... I cannot take 2 hours to export JPG and MP4 files out from my iPad to a SSD.