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External drive on iPad Pro

Abu Khadija

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Is anyone using an external drive on their iPad Pro? I have a Samsung T5 with 500gb. I’ve been trying to set it up with my 2018 12.9” iPad Pro and it doesn’t seem to be working. Is anyone else having a problem? I can’t seem to find out what’s wrong. Maybe because iPadOS is so new they haven’t worked all of the bugs out yet.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks.
 

Lee_Bo

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Please provide more detail on “doesn’t seem to be working”. Is the iPad not even recognizing an external device is connected? Is the external device connecting but the format is not compatible?
 

Abu Khadija

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Please provide more detail on “doesn’t seem to be working”. Is the iPad not even recognizing an external device is connected? Is the external device connecting but the format is not compatible?

I think both. I’m not sure. I might just be doing it wrong. It’s so easy with my 15” MBP.
 

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Please provide more detail on “doesn’t seem to be working”. Is the iPad not even recognizing an external device is connected? Is the external device connecting but the format is not compatible?

I have iTunes movies and tv shows on my external drive. I’m trying to set it up with my iPad Pro so I can save some space on my iPad. It works with the MacBook but not with the iPad.

I called Apple support and they said unless you use a third party app, it will not work because now everything is on the Apple TV app.

Anyone know of any third party apps I can use?
 

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