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What adapter do I need to connect an external USB drive to my iPad 5?

iPad, iOS 13

Posted on Feb 6, 2020 11:37 AM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2020 11:46 AM

Hello,


You will need Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Adapter.


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

* macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write

* APFS - NO

* FAT32 — SOME*

* exFAT — SOME**

* NTFS — NO


*iPadOS 13 supports solid state devices formatted as FAT32 such as a SD card. iPadOS 13 does not supports mechanical hard disks formatted as FAT32.

** iPadOS 13 supports disks formatted as exFAT as long as it was formatted with Disk Utility on a Macintosh. The disk cannot be formatted by Windows.


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Feb 6, 2020 11:46 AM in response to SuzyQtwo

Hello,


You will need Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Adapter.


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

* macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write

* APFS - NO

* FAT32 — SOME*

* exFAT — SOME**

* NTFS — NO


*iPadOS 13 supports solid state devices formatted as FAT32 such as a SD card. iPadOS 13 does not supports mechanical hard disks formatted as FAT32.

** iPadOS 13 supports disks formatted as exFAT as long as it was formatted with Disk Utility on a Macintosh. The disk cannot be formatted by Windows.


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