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What adapter do I need to connect an external USB drive to my iPad 5?
iPad, iOS 13
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What adapter do I need to connect an external USB drive to my iPad 5?
iPad, iOS 13
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.
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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