I bought a Sandisk Connect Media Drive, downloaded the app from iTunes. Before iOS 8, movies played fine. After iOS upgrade I can no longer play movies downloaded from iTunes to the media drive. Anyone else have a similar issue?

I know this is an old thread, but I was afraid that iOS 8 would cripple my iPad 2 and 3 models, so I completely skipped over iOS 8 and discovered this issue only after I upgrade all of my iDevices to iOS 9.1.

My Seagate wireless mobiile drive would no longer stream my PURCHASED iTunes movie content any longer from ANY external source.

I have been angry, upset and livid ever since discovering that Apple discontinued this feature.

Apple underhandedly and without any documentation of this fact to its users, coded out a feature that had been available since iOS 5 and I believe they coded this out sometime when iOS 8.1 or iOS 8.1.2 was released.

There is no way for any of us to know if Apple did this deliberately, forgot about this functionality OR they were forced/pressured by the motion picture industry to close and code out this ability to stream digital movie content from movies stored on external drives.

We have no way to know if this functionality will ever return in the up and coming iOS 10.

You can all leave feedback here and demand that Apple reinstate this remote storage streaming ability to TV/movie content PURCHASED from iTunes store here.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

There are paid programs and procedures out on the web that will, illegally, circumvemt the DRM code. This will allow you to be able to use your external storage device to stream your purchased iTunes video content, once again.

We cannot discuss any of that due to this being an illegal activity and against the Terms of Use of these community technical forums, but all I will say is that I got so really fed up and was so outraged that Apple, without any warnings to its user base, removed this functionality, that I took matters into my own hands and went with the illegal route of paying for online apps that break the DRM code.

I now can freely stream my whole movie collection now from both a Seagate portable Wifi Drive and my recently purchased SanDisk WiFi connect USB Flash drive to my new iPad Pro.

To Hill with Apple.

As it is, I find nothing in iOS 10 that will compel me to upgrade any of my iDevices unless someone here does and can confirm whether or not Apple has returned this remote streaming functionality in iOS 10.

Here's a legal way to go back to being able to stream your purchased iTunes movie content with certain mobile drives.

I purchased a Seagate Wifi portable hard drive some time back. Seagate still makes this drive, but I am not sure of compatibility with older iOS versions, now.

I am fortunate to still have an original iPad from 2010 running iOS 5.1.1

Seagate still has a compatible iOS companion app that will still access their mobile Wifi drive.

iOS 5.1.1 through the last version of iOS 7 will still have this remote storage device streaming functionality.

So, I can, now use my six year old iPad 1 to, legally, stream all of my purchased iTunes movie and TV content, once again on this iDevice.

Apple is never going to go back to all of the older iOS versions to code out this functionality

So, if you can find an older seconhand iPad from a reliable source (with no user activation lock) that is still running iOS 5.1.1, IOS 6 OR iOS 7, you can, legally, stream your purchased iTunes video content, once again!

That's the story.

I checked with SanDisk's own online support and they indicate that they have notified Apple of the issue.

According to SanDisk, the problem lies with Apple not having the iOS 8 version of the Safari browser having DRM decoding enabled that the Media Drive relies upon to decode and play iTunes DRM titles. Non DRM encoded videos will play in the browser.

DRM audio is not effected as this is handled by the native iOS music app.

As of the date of this post SanDisk have not been given a timeframe by Apple for this issue to be resolved.

I hope that Apple resolves this issue quickly as I have a large collection of DRM video titles on a 128Mb memory card installed in the Media Drive that I am unable to view.

I Have the same issue. After reading the description on the Apple web site saying that iTunes movies could be downloaded and played from the media I went to the local Apple Store and purchased the drive only to find out later that it does not work with iOS 8. Now what? I wanted to be able to watch movies on the long plane ride to Finland in May 2015. At this point I do not know if the issue will be resolved by then. It was suggested that I could take the iPad back to iOS 7 to resolve the issue but I think this is risky and i don't feel good about doing it. It makes me mad that I bought the drive at an Apple store to work with my apple devices to solve a problem but at this point does not work with the current OS. Please Apple, fix this issue so we can all use this great little drive.

My six year old son was in tears during his most recent, biweekly, two hour drive to visit his dad because the movies he loves and is used to watching would not play after upgrading the iPad to iOS8. Fix this soon. The device came from the Apple Store to add storage to my iPad so my son could watch his movies during this long drive.

I have the same issue.

Class action against Apple for misrepresenting this product & the iOS 8 or higher updates?