Connecting USB Drive to iPhone, formatting problems

I want to view files on my USB stick which are larger than 4GB so the USB stick is NTFS form. When I connect and look at the drive in my files app it says it's "read-only", so I couldn't view the files. I read elsewhere that this is because the drive needs to be in FAT32 form. But I cannot load the files onto the drive if it is in FAT32 because it doesn't allow anything larger than 4GBs.


I seem to be a bit stuck here. What can I do?

iPhone 12

Posted on Jan 13, 2023 10:40 AM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2023 10:56 AM

Format the drive as exFat instead of FAT32 or even a Mac format such as HFS+ if possible. iOS devices cannot access NTFS drives as that is a Microsoft proprietary format.


exFat will let you store files larger than 4GB.


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