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I have External SSDs formatted with APFS. Works great on my M2 ipad pro and M1 Max Macbook pro. Is not recognized on my iphone 16 pro max. Has anyone tried this combination? I wonder if it could have anything to do with that fact that on the iphone it is only USB-C 3.2 and not Thunderbolt compatible. Or something with the iPhone's chip itself. I have already reported this to apple a long time ago.
iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18
Barryt315 wrote:
external ssd and formatted to APFS but iPhone 16 pro max message says: Unsupported File System. External storage devices must be formatted to exFAT to support external recording.
What app is trying to record to the SSD? Is it a real SSD or an unreliable thumb drive?
hmm works for me as expected. I just AirDropped a 2.3 GB iPhone 16 Pro ProRes 422 .mov from Mac mini 2018 to iPad Air Photos. I formatted a SanDisk thumb drive as APFS on the Mac. And then successfully connected the thumb drive to the iPad via its USB-C end and copied the .mov to the thumb drive's Files (took about a minute), the Mac also saw the .mov when the thumb drive was connected to it.
I also am having this issue. Just purchased an external ssd and formatted to APFS but iPhone 16 pro max message says: Unsupported File System. External storage devices must be formatted to exFAT to support external recording. I thought APFS was supposed to work across all Apple operating systems?
The SSD in question is a Kingston SSD NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 in a Sabrent enclosure. I just bought it and initialized it for APFS. It works great on my 2017 iMac. It connects to the iPhone 16 pro max and lets me transfer files to the SSD, I just can't write directly to it using pro res video unless it is reformatted, or so the message states. I have another SSD, a Glyph that is Mac OS Extended and I can write directly to that SSD from the iPhone.
I would prefer to use APFS between my iMac and phone since it is the fastest. Thanks!
I can connect the APFS SSD to the iPhone and move my video files onto it, but what I wanted to do was record pro res video directly to the ssd in real time. But it says I need exFat in order to do that. Whereas I can record video to the Glyph Mac OS extended no problem. Weird. I might try and reformat the drive for APFS again, since its new and has no data and see if it allows me to record onto it.
Barryt315 wrote:
what I wanted to do was record pro res video directly to the ssd in real time. But it says I need exFat in order to do that.
What app is trying to record directly to the SSD?
The iPhone camera. No external app. Just 4k pro res video out of the iPhone directly onto the ssd.
My iPadAir 10,9" (5th Generation, M1) iPadOS 18.0.1 Apple stock camera can AFAIK not record directly to SSD so I can not test that.
APFS formatted SSD with iphone 16 pro max
