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DaveUr Author

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Using a USB-C stick with the latest iPad Pro

Hello guys,

First question here as I have managed to solve any other issue or question thanks to this community.

I just bought a SanDisk dual stick (with USB and USB-C connection) to use with my latest iPad Pro 12.9, thanks to the new feature of the Files App.

The issue is that I am not able to read it, I am connecting it and it does not show anything in "Locations". I have seen many people in videos using the same one, it was formatted with FAT32, I formatted to ExFAT and nothing changed.

Any idea or experience about this? Thanks a bunch.

iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 3rd Gen, Wi-Fi

Posted on Oct 28, 2019 6:11 AM

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QuickPost

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Posted on Oct 28, 2019 11:23 AM

Hello,

Most likely your drive is formatted in a way that is not compatible with iPad.

iPadOS 13 supports the following disk formats with a GUID partition scheme:

macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write
APFS - YES Read and Write
FAT32 — NO
exFAT — NO
NTFS — NO

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