Connecting external ssd

I have a iphone 13 with iOS 17.3, I have a Samsung T7 portable ssd 1tb, and the lighting to USB C adapter to connect the SSD to my phone. But when I connect everything, the ssd is not seen by the phone even though it has power, it has been formatted in exFAT, and is receiving power. I need to work with windows computers so I cant use APFS. I'm not sure if it's my phone, or the fact that I'm repurposing the drive formally formatted in NTFS, but I've reformatted it and the whole volume is a single partition.

iPhone 6, iOS 11

Posted on Feb 9, 2024 5:34 PM

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