External hard drive
What adapter is needed to transfer video and pdf files from external hard drive to iPad 7 generation?
iPad, iPadOS 13
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Hello,
You will need Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Adapter.
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