USB 3.0 IPad 7

Hello,

iPadOS supports the following disk formats with a GUID partition scheme:

* macOS Extended journaled — YES Read and Write

* APFS - Coming in iPadOS 14

* FAT32 — SOME*

* exFAT — SOME**

* NTFS — NO

*iPadOS 13 supports solid state devices formatted as FAT32 such as a SD card. iPadOS 13 does not supports mechanical hard disks formatted as FAT32.

** iPadOS 13 supports disks formatted as exFAT as long as it was formatted with Disk Utility on a Macintosh. The disk cannot be formatted by Windows.

Connect external devices or servers with Files on iPad - Apple Support

You need to purchase the actual, genuine Apple Lightning to USB-3 camera adapter, from Apple, and plug that adapter into external power using your iPad charge cable and Apple power/charging block!

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK0W2/lightning-to- usb-3-camera-adapter?fnode=37

You NEED TO PURCHASE THIS EXACT genuine Apple adapter above!!!

This is THE ONLY adapter that works!

Cheaper ( cheap in price and quality ) third party “knockoff” adapters WILL NOT WORK!!!!

With Lightning connector equipped iPads, you need this adapter as it has a Lightning connector power connection to power both the iPad and to connect a commonplace USB flash memory drive or portable SSD drive.

Without the additional power to the iPad, USB flash drives and portable SSD drives will NOT work with older iPads with the Lightning connector.

The Lightning connector alone cannot convey the,necessary power requirements needed for normal USB style flash memory drives.

YOU NEED TO CONNECT AN EXTERNAL POWER SOUCE TO THIS ADAPTER for that adapter to work with ANY externally connected drive!!! Even to get any standard USB flash memory drives to work on older Lightning connector equipped iPads.

There are lots of YouTube videos that discuss and demonstrate this.

Here are just two references, as an example.

YouTube video references

https://youtu.be/1Jm-xcrbFy8

https://youtu.be/8iHc1mc5SJE

In addition the external drive needs to be formatted into one of these file/data formats

Apple macOS standard format

APFS

FAT 32

exfat

Apple Website external drive help link here.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad1c415e32/ipados

Good Luck to You!