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flash drive for a ipad air first edition

flash drive for a ipad air first edition can you advise witch one will work as i bought a y-disk flash drive it works on my iphone6/6plus but not on the ipad air why

Posted on Jun 20, 2020 6:39 AM

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Posted on Jun 20, 2020 7:33 AM

Your first generation iPad Air cannot be updated to iPadOS13.x - this being prerequisite to being able to transfer files between the iPad and external storage devices.


iOS12 and earlier is considerably more limited in its capability to use external media - functionality typically being limited to importing images from camera media.

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Jun 20, 2020 7:33 AM in response to mark1twinn

Your first generation iPad Air cannot be updated to iPadOS13.x - this being prerequisite to being able to transfer files between the iPad and external storage devices.


iOS12 and earlier is considerably more limited in its capability to use external media - functionality typically being limited to importing images from camera media.

flash drive for a ipad air first edition

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