ipad Pro External Drive

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ipad Pro External Drive

Using a Brokuca dongle with 12.9" iPad Pro. iOS always the latest version.

256 GB SSD USB drive with dongle plugged into factory power adapter.

Have formatted the drive FAT, ex-FAT, MacOS Journaled, Case Sensitive, MAC OS Journaled.... None of these options work, the drive does not show up in Finder. USB Dongles, same story.

Does this actually work? Articles all over the web say it does.... Same story with a SanDisk dongle. Ipad clearly sees the drive, the activity lights blink.

Wanting to buy a headphone adapter, does that work? So far the USB dongle is Captain Dunsil on iPad, nothing plugged into it works.

iPad Air, iOS 12

Posted on May 15, 2020 12:43 PM

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Answer 1

MichelPM

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May 24, 2020 2:00 PM in response to MooseMiester

Because they simply don’t.

You'll need to use this official Apple dongle with your 2018 iPad to have s chance of using that external drive.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUF82AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter?fnode=1fee18ee401d1de4f1e2f974b3f48ce351510fed1a2078512122388ce45b445118b3c823c442005e12240f4acbbd56ff9fa40f339f95530399ac989c9da354901b86a3d1310c64e9aa39ed48310bdc7078be8f67dcb63f4447bbf41655e209e47db088a7744306d9fdc0757cff8b200d&fs=f%3Dadapter%26fh%3D4588%252B45b0

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Answer 2

MooseMiester Author

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Jun 1, 2020 12:34 PM in response to MichelPM

Yes, some USB Cable manufactures make poor cables. And yes USB-C isn't a "standard" anymore than USB 1.0 was.

Both devices I have are USB 3.1 Gen 2. Otherwise they wouldn't work with a mac book and an external drive.

In frustration I googled this more. Some people are saying the iPad Pro USB connection to a flash drive or external disk only works for photos and videos. Is this true?

This community is as bad as Microsofts. So sad Apple was not this way back in the day.

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