iPhone 6 + Camera Connection Kit Works! (Apple Genius)

No reason to think it won't. Unless stated otherwise anywhere, its safe to assume iOS 8 will be compatible with any Lightning hardware already out. Since the iPhone 6 uses the same lightning port as the iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, iPad air, and iPad Mini, its even more likely accessories such as the Lightning Camera adapter will function with it just as they've functioned with those devices.

Ooops my mistake, Never mind.

Yes. There is, actually, since it does not work with the iPhone 5, 5c or 5s... The camera connection kit is compatible with iPads. Apple has never stated that it would function with an iPhone at all.

Please update the title to accurately reflect the truth. This post is the top search result for people looking to see if the camera kit works with the iPhone 6/6 Plus, and the title is incredibly misleading.

From what I can tell there is no reason this should not work with the latest generation of iPhones considering the Camera Connection Kit was designed to use the original iPad. It would be a great feature to have this versatility with the iPhones allowing the Camera Connection Kit to save images.

I feel that Apple should open up the Camera Connection Kit's compatibility and allow it to work with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus if not earlier generations.

If you agree with me, please go to apple.com/feedback and submit this as an enhancement request and maybe we'll see it in a future iOS update!

BostonShawn77 wrote:

From what I can tell there is no reason this should not work with the latest generation of iPhones considering the Camera Connection Kit was designed to use the original iPad.

You mean except for the fact that Apple never claimed it would work with the iPhone?

I know they never claimed that it would work, but from a hardware standpoint I don't see a reason why this should not work. Honestly, I feel Apple doesn't want to cannibalize the sales of iPads so they block this feature from working with iPhones from within the iPhone software, or don't include the API for the CCK in the iPhone software.

HHow you feel about it is irrelevant. Not to mention off topic.

Tell apple. Complaining here won't alter reality.

Agreed. From a technical standpoint there is zero reason for it not to be supported. Apple has chosen for business reasons to not allow the camera adapter to work with the iPhones

This is a shame, because there are very real reasons to want to import photos/videos from cameras and SD cards onto an iPhone. Example - you have an in car camera that records video and there has been an accident. You would like to show the police officer what you saw, but your car is now smashed. It would be very nice to be able to pull the microSD card from the camera system body, connect it to the iPhone and use a playback application on the iPhone to show the officer what happened. Because you have your phone on you all the time but don't leave an iPad in the car for just such a purpose.

at the moment the only way to import the photos is using your iPad with that connector and put it in the iCloud- then you will have it also av. on the iPhone!

Well thanks for again stating the obvious problem that we are all aware of. That solution is a non-starter as no one in their right mind will drag along an iPad on a trip just to be able to get their camera photos from a camera SD card to their phone.

Apple needs to allow/make the camera connector work on the iPhone as well, or give up the notion its the nexus of photos. In the current forced state, we have to bring along a laptop to import photos off of SD cards for.. which means the laptop becomes the photo nexus.

With the new update 9.2 the connection kit will work.

Check it on google.

Well well well,

so it does ,just tried on an iPhone 6

and functions exactly like an iPad

Well spotted 🙂

Are we talking about the new SD reader to lightning cable? Or the earlier iPod Camera Connection Kit SD card reader, fitted to an iPhone 6S+ via the small Apple 30 pin-to-lightning adapter?

My apple store's out of the cable, ditto best buy. I've got the earlier sd card reader & adapter, but connected to camera it doesn't seem to transfer. Is there something I need to do with a particular app, or....??? I've got my phone on the newest 9.2 update.

I believe the update applies to the Lightning to USB camera adapter.

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter

iOS 9.0 - 9.2

Not the SD reader.