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I wish to buy an iPad to watch movies without data or Wifi. Can I add an external hard drive to load on some movies to do this? Do I need anything else to make this work? Which Apple products would work best?

Many thanks for any help provided. Penny

Posted on Nov 14, 2020 4:16 AM

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Posted on Nov 14, 2020 7:17 AM

you can connect external HDD to iPad, here is how: https://www.imore.com/how-use-external-hard-drives-your-iphone-or-ipad#:~:text=Connect%20your%20external%20drive%20to,in%20the%20list%20of%20locations.


please note that you you may need Apple's Lightning-to-USB or Lightning-to-USB 3 camera adapters - for this you should check both HDD and iPad connectors, and probably easiest is to ask for assistance in store where you pan to buy disk and ipad.


and. ofc, you'll need a software to play videos on ipad, search in app store, there are at least several variants :-)

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Nov 14, 2020 7:17 AM in response to Penny_UK

you can connect external HDD to iPad, here is how: https://www.imore.com/how-use-external-hard-drives-your-iphone-or-ipad#:~:text=Connect%20your%20external%20drive%20to,in%20the%20list%20of%20locations.


please note that you you may need Apple's Lightning-to-USB or Lightning-to-USB 3 camera adapters - for this you should check both HDD and iPad connectors, and probably easiest is to ask for assistance in store where you pan to buy disk and ipad.


and. ofc, you'll need a software to play videos on ipad, search in app store, there are at least several variants :-)

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