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External hard drive

What adapter is needed to transfer video and pdf files from external hard drive to iPad 7 generation?

iPad, iPadOS 13

Posted on Jun 24, 2020 4:41 PM

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Posted on Jun 24, 2020 8:21 PM

Hello,


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



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

  • macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write
  • APFS - Coming in iPadOS 14
  • 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.


Connect external devices or servers with Files on iPad - Apple Support

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Jun 24, 2020 8:21 PM in response to iPad7gen

Hello,


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



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

  • macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write
  • APFS - Coming in iPadOS 14
  • 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.


Connect external devices or servers with Files on iPad - Apple Support

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