iPhone not seeing external storage drive

I connected my iphone10 with a Sandisk ssd drive, but the phone won’t show the drive in the Files app. The drive is formatted in exFAT. Appreciate your advices.

iPhone X, iOS 16

Posted on Aug 18, 2024 2:58 PM

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Aug 18, 2024 5:05 PM in response to hui149

You need the Sandisk iXpand app.

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Aug 28, 2024 7:14 AM in response to hui149

Hi, Please ignore the last question. But if I might ask a further one. I now am able to Copy and Paste limited photos from within my Photo app to the iXpand drive. Was it a file size issue? I would not be meaningfully able to move my photos to the drive with this issue. Appreciate if you would be able to shed some lights?

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