iPad using an External Monitor with USB C Connector

I have a portable Monitor that has a USB C connection and I want to drive it with my iPad Pro I just purchased.

Will it work and how?

iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 11

Posted on Jan 26, 2018 10:17 PM

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Jan 26, 2018 10:47 PM in response to dckilgore

No

It will not.

The power supply in iPads in not powerful enough to handle peripheral devices like USB hard drives/optical drives, USB flash drives, monitors that need quite a bit more power.

You could try purchasing a powered USB-C hub and try that with monitor and your iPad Pro.

Not sure if even that will work.

I think the iPad does not have the power needed to drive any external monitor and there is no internal monitor circuitry or monitor driver software built into iOS.

Pretty sure getting that monitor to work with an iPad Pro is an exercise in failure.

Feb 4, 2018 11:37 PM in response to dckilgore

I gave you a known working alternative IPad Pro/monitor setup, as I believe the monitor you have and the connections you have will not work with your IPad Pro.

iPads are tablets not laptops. Tablets are limited as to what is possible for these devices to realistically do with limited hardware and a more simplified and non-user modifiable OS.

Also, I think that the power limits of the monitor WILL exceed to power supply requirements of the IPad Pro, itself!

You can only plug in limited types of external USB devices that have to use minimal power and draw very little power from the IPad Pro’s power supply.

If you want to figure out on your own how to get that monitor to work with yiur IPad Pro, then good luck to you with all of that!

It you get this to work for you, please follow up your efforts with a reply update for others that may want to try a similar setup.

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