Why is my iPad pro not recognising APFS encrypted Sandisk SSD?
I recently put encryption on an SSD with APFS and now It can be read by my iPad Pro running iPados 14
iPad Pro 11-inch Wi-Fi
The title of your post reports that your iPad does not recognise the Sandisk SSD, yet the body text directly contradicts this statement in that iPadOS14 will read the disk.
iPadOS14 should allow an APFS encrypted device to be accessed from the native Files App. The encrypted drive should be visible in the sidebar. When visible, tap the icon - at which point you should be prompted for the volume password.
If the encrypted drive is not visible, you would be best advised to reformat without encryption - and test the drive with your iPad prior to encrypting the device. This is a necessary debug step - without which you have no confidence that the drive and iPad are operating normally.
The title of your post reports that your iPad does not recognise the Sandisk SSD, yet the body text directly contradicts this statement in that iPadOS14 will read the disk.
iPadOS14 should allow an APFS encrypted device to be accessed from the native Files App. The encrypted drive should be visible in the sidebar. When visible, tap the icon - at which point you should be prompted for the volume password.
If the encrypted drive is not visible, you would be best advised to reformat without encryption - and test the drive with your iPad prior to encrypting the device. This is a necessary debug step - without which you have no confidence that the drive and iPad are operating normally.
You really do need to test the SSD with plain-formatting (without encryption). If you haven’t already done so, instead of a direct connection between iPad and SSD, connect both to a powered USB hub.
Yeah, good News: with iPadOS 14.5 - released yesterday - my APFS encrypted drive can be read with iPad finally 😄.
Macbook can read that encrypted SSD only iPad can’t
Same problem here: different SSDs (SanDisk Extreme Pro, Samsung T7, very new Crucial portable 4 TB) + APFS encrypted work
+ fine at my MacBook Pro (M1, Big Sur), but
- are visible but can not be decrypted at the iPad Pro.
After submitting the password the same pop up asking for the password again.
I tried all different combinations (different passwords, cables, adapters even different partitions on the ssds) even second iPad or two other macs for new APFS encryption. Same bad results.
What's the problem here (I searched for hours and just found this only one actual thread here. It seems that nobody out there is having these issues, except for us here ;).
I really hope to get it working, especially because of Apples announcements that exactly this should work fine not only with Macs but with iPadOS 14, too.
Any help or good advice is so welcome.
sorry, I meant it cannot be read after I encrypted the drive.
i have a HDD drive which is encrypted but it can be read perfectly however I’m having a problem with the SSD.
Why is my iPad pro not recognising APFS encrypted Sandisk SSD?
