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Yah.. USB-C, so I carry a dongle with the iPad Pro that I don't have to carry with my Surface Pro. I wouldn't have to buy the dongle cause I already have a gr

Yah.. USB-C, so I carry a dongle with the iPad Pro that I don't have to carry with my Surface Pro. I wouldn't have to buy the dongle cause I already have a great collection of them because I have a USB-C-only MacBook Pro. But I still have bought 0 actual devices that have USB-C. And it's not just external storage devices. It was always such a mess. E.x. with the Camera connection kit on the iPad Pro: - My Canon 5D worked - Go Pro cameras did not work - My external card readers didn't work (which could take the cards from the GoPro), sounds like maybe they fixed this I could go on and on, Apple chips away a little by little at what works and what doesn't work. But meanwhile life goes on with OSX and Windows where everything just works. I used the iPad Pro for 2-3 years.. stuff just improves glacially on the iPad, that's the issue, they fix like one or two things in a year and you still have a list of 25 things that are a PITA. Some of this stuff with USB-C is tough. There's no way I'm going to buy a new $3000+ camera to get USB-C for example.

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wlesieutre 7y ago
I haven't tried since I don't have a USB-C iPad yet, but I would expect that if they mount as a standard FAT filesystem that you should be able to just plug it in and copy the files. You wouldn't need a new camera, just an $8 cable like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UUBS0SS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UUBS0SS Or if you want to use a card reader, you get one that plugs into a USB-C port and toss it in the bag with the iPad, just like you would with a USB-A card reader and a Surface. I don't know about the GoPro since I don't have one, but if it's a normal filesystem they ought to show up in the Files app as well. Since you already have a USB-C MacBook Pro in sounds like either the cable or the reader would work on both devices. EDIT: slightly outdated from iPadOS Beta 5, but this blog reports that the Files app shows RAW files and can preview them, but doesn't generate thumbnail icons. Not sure whether this is still the case https://numericcitizen.me/2019/08/01/browsing-raw-images-in-ipados-13-beta-5/ https://numericcitizen.me/2019/08/01/browsing-raw-images-in-...
- JadeNB 7y ago
  > I haven't tried since I don't have a USB-C iPad yet, but I would expect that if they mount as a standard FAT filesystem that you should be able to just plug it in and copy the files. Does the iPad not support HFS+ and Apple File System?
  - wlesieutre 7y ago
    It does, I mentioned FAT because that's probably what a camera's memory card uses. It's pretty similar to Mac; I believe the supported systems are HFS+, APFS, FAT, and exFAT. But NTFS is not supported at all (macOS can read but not write) and encrypted drives aren't supported (macOS supports read/write).
lostapathy 7y ago
The camera connection kit is a quirky weird stepchild for Apple. It works well with about anything on the iPhone - although some devices require a powered lightning cable. On iPad, the same devices will all work, but it's a lot fussier about what powered lightning cable you use. For example - I have a USB-C to lightning cable and a USB-PD charger. If I use those with the camera connection kit, my iPhone will access any USB storage device I've connected. It won't work on the iPad. But if use a USB-A to lightning cable to a 2 amp power supply, the same devices work fine on the ipad. go figure.
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  Anything where they try to stuff a large amount of data over the lightning connector has been finicky, there are a lot of complaints about the HDMI adapters too. Wish they’d just change everything to USB-C, but with them releasing new accessories regularly that charge with lightning, it doesn’t feel likely. Most recently PowerBeats 4 a couple of days ago.
sjwright 7y ago
If you don’t like dongles, just buy the right cable.
gumby 7y ago
I understand your pain but it's worth the switch. I tried to aggressively go Type C exclusively starting in 2017 and have pretty much been there for about 18 months. There are two devices that need an adaptor which I simply glued onto the cable, but then again a lot of devices have gone completely wireless. People had the same problem with the 30-pin to lightning transition, ADB to USB type A, the super messy VGA->various kinds of DVI and DisplayPort -> (mostly) HDMI and the like. They've been worth it in the end.

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wlesieutre 7y ago

I haven't tried since I don't have a USB-C iPad yet, but I would expect that if they mount as a standard FAT filesystem that you should be able to just plug it in and copy the files. You wouldn't need a new camera, just an $8 cable like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UUBS0SS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UUBS0SS Or if you want to use a card reader, you get one that plugs into a USB-C port and toss it in the bag with the iPad, just like you would with a USB-A card reader and a Surface. I don't know about the GoPro since I don't have one, but if it's a normal filesystem they ought to show up in the Files app as well. Since you already have a USB-C MacBook Pro in sounds like either the cable or the reader would work on both devices. EDIT: slightly outdated from iPadOS Beta 5, but this blog reports that the Files app shows RAW files and can preview them, but doesn't generate thumbnail icons. Not sure whether this is still the case https://numericcitizen.me/2019/08/01/browsing-raw-images-in-ipados-13-beta-5/ https://numericcitizen.me/2019/08/01/browsing-raw-images-in-...

JadeNB 7y ago
> I haven't tried since I don't have a USB-C iPad yet, but I would expect that if they mount as a standard FAT filesystem that you should be able to just plug it in and copy the files. Does the iPad not support HFS+ and Apple File System?
- wlesieutre 7y ago
  It does, I mentioned FAT because that's probably what a camera's memory card uses. It's pretty similar to Mac; I believe the supported systems are HFS+, APFS, FAT, and exFAT. But NTFS is not supported at all (macOS can read but not write) and encrypted drives aren't supported (macOS supports read/write).

lostapathy 7y ago

The camera connection kit is a quirky weird stepchild for Apple. It works well with about anything on the iPhone - although some devices require a powered lightning cable. On iPad, the same devices will all work, but it's a lot fussier about what powered lightning cable you use. For example - I have a USB-C to lightning cable and a USB-PD charger. If I use those with the camera connection kit, my iPhone will access any USB storage device I've connected. It won't work on the iPad. But if use a USB-A to lightning cable to a 2 amp power supply, the same devices work fine on the ipad. go figure.

wlesieutre 7y ago
Anything where they try to stuff a large amount of data over the lightning connector has been finicky, there are a lot of complaints about the HDMI adapters too. Wish they’d just change everything to USB-C, but with them releasing new accessories regularly that charge with lightning, it doesn’t feel likely. Most recently PowerBeats 4 a couple of days ago.

sjwright 7y ago

If you don’t like dongles, just buy the right cable.

gumby 7y ago

I understand your pain but it's worth the switch. I tried to aggressively go Type C exclusively starting in 2017 and have pretty much been there for about 18 months. There are two devices that need an adaptor which I simply glued onto the cable, but then again a lot of devices have gone completely wireless. People had the same problem with the 30-pin to lightning transition, ADB to USB type A, the super messy VGA->various kinds of DVI and DisplayPort -> (mostly) HDMI and the like. They've been worth it in the end.