How To Use an External Hard Drive With Your IPhone - WD My Passport- Atolla 3.0 USB HUB- Apple USB 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- In This Video I Show You How To Use an External Hard Drive With Your iPhone 12, Im Sure The X & Maybe Even From The IPhone 7 & On You Can Use This Method.
I Use a WD My Passport 2TB & Atolla 3.0 USB Hub & Apples USB A 3.0 With Lighting Dongle.
Now if your plugging in a hard drive and nothings popping up you have to make sure it’s compatible , my wd passport had to be formatted to exFAT , you right click on it on a computer then click format , if it’s on NTFS apple will not be able to read it so change it to exFATT and click format , it takes seconds !
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Amazing! after viewing a few videos of super annoying people trying to explain the process of direct transfer to a hardddrive I found your post. Your advice and instructions are perfectly clear and to the point. I got the exact hub you said and it works perfectly!!!! THANKS!
Glad I could help ! Enjoy 😊
Now that I have all the equipment needed to transfer my pics & videos from my iPhone, I’d love to see a video from you walking us through the process. I’m not tech savvy and could use the help!
agreed. I have an iPhone 7, not a 12 like he does. I have all the other products, its hooked up, but I don't see what if anything is different with my phone.
Agreed….I have an XSMax and I’ve got al the equipment also and not getting it to work through my phone either. Frustrating & ready to empty these pics out of my phone!
Agreed….I have an XSMax and I’ve got al the equipment also and not getting it to work through my phone either. Frustrating & ready to empty these pics out of my phone!
I’m at the same dilemma. I’ve got an iPhone XR; I e purchased all the correct items shown, reformatted my WD Easystore with no luck. To reformat the Easystore required me dumping all of my stuff already stored on it to a computer. Help by finishing or adding another video.
You just made my day brother. This was the question I had but thank GOD I came across your video , now my questions have been answered
Super big thanks. I so needed this for my yoga recordings. It was not doable to upload hours worth of content through the cloud and this made it possible for me to store the content and then get it off my phone to make space. Also helpful to then use the content in I movie for editing. I am grateful, thanks for sharing.
Would’ve been nice to see you backing up data from phone to HD
After watching ur video I got a 2tb ssd for my Samsung Note 10 plus it work great now I have alot of memory
I think I finally got this to work thanks to your help! Transfer speed is pretty slow, but this is a good test. I only wish that there was some sort of progress bar to indicate how long a transfer will take.
this is exactly, brand for brand, what I’m trying to do haha. thank you SO MUCH. I’ve been doing research all morning and figured this out but finally a video just literally showing me it will work is so validating I now know the conclusion I came to is correct and I can actually pull the trigger and buy this stuff!
Great addition to my set up 😊
Same lmao, same iPhone and everything
Hi, great video thank you. I do property inspections and have upwards of 50 gigs of photo & video on my phone. I'm required to keep all of it for a number of years. I’m paying for tons of iCloud storage that’s going up each month. I have the same WD 2tb storage that you do but am not skilled enough to make the transfer. I feel like this could be my best long term solution and have ordered the two hubs to make it work. If you could do a short video on how to safely move all of the pictures and videos to the hard drive, then delete completely from the iphone and cloud, you would solve one of my biggest headaches. I appreciate it, thanks for doing this one.
Get all the stuff , once you have it plugged in and working it should be simple , which ever photos or videos you want to save just click the share button and click save to files and choose where you want it to save ! Hope that helps ya
@@TechinItOut100 it didn’t worked out for me. The save button was not hilighted
@@itsekka Same here. The hard drive showed up but the save button was greyed
OMGosh! I've been frustrated for sometime on this. I need to clean my phone, with pictures & video's going to icloud, it's been difficult to figure out how to back up photo's. Thank you for explaining and thank you to your follow-ers for the comments.
It also helps if the external hard drive is formatted in "exFAT". If the external hard drive is set to NTFS, or some other format, the iPhone will recognize it, but it will only be in "Read-Only" mode. You can access files, but you can't transfer or copy from the iPhone.
Thank you so much….you have no idea what your comment did for me. I have been up for hours trying to figure this thing out until I saw your comment. I appreciate you a ton 🙏
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It will work with Apple APFS file system, but you will need a Macintosh based computer to format your Hard Disk Drive using this File System.
One question sir.
I have ipad
And when i connect my harddrive it say "Read Only" but i can transfer data from harddrive to ipad but i canot transfer data from ipad to harddrive. Help
Format fat32 n try
Crazy! I happen to have all 3 items shown. Excited!
My phone holds more Memory than my laptop so I was at a loss of how to backup. Looking forward to this Hack
I have that atolla hub you have to use the USB on the end not the top 4 🤷🏼♂️ those are for mice keyboard exc. U shouldn't need the power in the other adapter either ✌🏻
Show us how to actually get the iPhone to transfer videos photos files to the hard drive
It will only allow you to transfer from the hard drive to the iPhone
A sei riuscito?
How do you eject the external hard drive on iPhone because I see nothing that says eject before unplugging?
Why u not try with otg (on the go) plug? It more simple and smaller
If your USB device is overheating, Samsung OTG connection can fix it, and won’t overheat anymore. Just connect to the OTG cable, then wait till the phone recognize it or not. Then, power the phone to standby. May need 5-10 retries, depending on your USB device. Overheating consumes more batt power, and the device may malfunction.
Idk why but I doesn’t work too well for me.
I Can only save using flash drives.
When I connect a hard drive and go to Files it doesn’t give me a SAVE option (in fact the “save” letters are shown grey color not blue ) so I can’t execute that option.
What can I do.
Please help 😊
What is the format of your Hard drive? If not in Exfat, please copy data and reformat in ExFat.. then it will work😊
Anyone else here cause they’re realizing they don’t need a laptop?
🤣🤣🤣 greatest comment ever! That’s exactly why I’m here
Yup
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F laptops and desktops they are for work not home. Lol. All about cell phones and tablets for home.
Amen!!!!👏🏾😂
Yep, trying to do youtube vids on the go without carrying a laptop
I’ve been trying to download to my computer but the reason I bought the passport was to free up my laptop cause it’s very very slow. Any advice
Great video: I've been looking quite a while for this solution. However, now that I have a Mac, I find it easier to transfer from iPhone to USB 3.0 external hard drive by plugging both to the Mac and using Image Capture (this app comes default with the Mac).
THANK YOU!!! Perplexity AI recommended your video. You just made my life very easy. I just needed a powered USB hub! Thank you!!!
Hi I bought the same Harddisk and USB hub, Connector. I am able to get my harddisk detect but only read only. I am not able to transfer anyhting. Please help.
I’m not sure , try formatting it to exFat on a computer
Thank you for this clear and easy to follow video.
Damn I was losing hope but thank god your video popped up in the recommendation!
It worked 👍🏻
I purchased everything and it worked but now having a hard time moving the video in my phone into there.... but I can watch video from my hard drive no problem. any suggestions? thanks
one of the best video i have ever seen on youtube
Thank you!
I have iPhone 14. Would you please provide me with the 2 items I should purchase to accomplish the same results.
How long does it take to transfer 130,000 photos & videos? (About 140G)
Hello enjoy your video can you tell me what is the full name of the white device you are using thanks
Good video, and information, but aren't new iPhones USB C?
Liked this persona and nicely competent tech explanation, chime this again next month after I got a powered hub (I got a western digital )
Thank you for this information. I have like 1,000,000,000 photos of my dog 💀
Dude. You are a legend. Thank you for this !
Thanks for the video, can you add a link for that USB hub? I can’t find one that has the USB A cord attached.
Hello, I did the exact same thing and my phone can finally access the external files… However, its only available in read-only mode and I cannot transfer my pics from my phone. How should I fix this? Please help, thanks!
You may need to format the hard-drive to exfat or some other apple compatible format, using an apple computer beforehand you can use it with your iPhone or Ipad.
I used a 2TB M.2 NVME SSD in an enclosure and have no problem in it.
What formatting does the external HD need to be in?
Hi, with these steps my WD passport is showing on my phone… however I am unable to move any data because it is showing read only. Please suggest a solution.
Try formatting to exFat on a computer first , that should do it
It's absolutely ridiculous that Apple lightning ports can't even power a simple HDD/SSD. USB-C can do it all without the need for external hubs doing all the work. Man what a bummer for a vastly over priced apple device.
Most cheap android phones are capable of powering hdd without using external power through usb c alone!
Don't be that ignorant !! The fact that the HDD or SSD is not powered by the lighting, have nothing to do with the cable or the device...the issue is the power that the HDD needs to work and the battery size of the device that you're using. For instance, if you plug the SSD in an ipad the SSD will work without any power supply.
@@junito1008doesn’t work with an iPad pro with lightning port, so yeah, type c does work well and lightning does not!
It’s still not working for me , any suggestions ?
Did you format the drive first ? If not format it first to exFat on a computer it should work then
Hello question: I got the same Atolla USB hub as you, but instead, I tried connecting a lightning-to-USB cable(Amazon Basics) directly from my iPhone to one of the ports on that hub and it’s not working?
Is the trick using that official Apple Lightning/USB adapter?
(BTW I also have mine plugged into the wall and have a working exFAT thumb drive but it’s not recognizing it.)
Would appreciate if you could test/confirm if the Apple dongle is what’s also necessary. I’ve wasted so much money and time trying to figure this 🤬 out. Thank you 🙏
I was using a ssd and the folder did show up. However I couldnt transfer photos or videos is there a reason for that?
Check if file format is exfat on your hard drive
I’m trying this out but when I attempt to change my format to exfat, a message comes up that my data on my drive will be erased.. how do I go around this?
thank you! Worked for me. kind of regretting switching to iphone
Can you go directly from the camera roll to the external hard drive? If not how do you get your photos in the files folders?
Yes you can , click share and then save to files and then choose destination!
@@TechinItOut100 I did that but my external hard drive doesn’t appear.
I tried otg connecter and it doesn’t show any thing
Hi for the No tech folks I missed the part where you went into your browser history to see if the external drive was in your history. You covered your iPhone when you went through to it, I could not see what app or folder you were getting into for your browser. Thanks
It was files app default with iphone
I’m feeling really burned now 😡 because I did what you said in your video and the drive says X READ ONLY. It can’t write files to the $104 dollar WD Elements 5Tb hard drive. I’m really really angry now 😡
You must format the hard drive to exfatt my friend
What if you plug your phone straight into the hub? Will it work the same ?
Would you be able to link each of the items you purchased exactly? Either in the description or the comments? I’m not that tech savvy and I’d like to have it exact one to one!
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It appears yes but I can’t transfer pictures from my iPhone..I’m using the same external drive too. Can someone help?
I'm having the same issue. Where you able to get it to work? If so, what did you have to do?
Try formatting it to exFat on a computer first
I bought an adapter for my iPhone 14 Pro to transfer my files to my Samsung SSD. This works perfectly. But to my surprise I lost all my EXIF (meta) data once the files are on the SSD, even if I include ''All Photos Data'' in the Options tab before I tranfer it. The files that I transfer via Airdrop to my iMac do keep all EXIF data. Does anyone have a solution for this, or is it not possible at all?
I can plug the same drive into my s20 directly and it works great.
Thanks man I’ve been working on this to move my iMessages to an external hard drive haven’t figured it out yet might switch to Samsung because it’s important for me to keep messages for work stuff
I just use IMAGE CAPTURE, which is on every MAC computer...standard. I plug an external drive into the computer, plug my phone into the computer, and then I just use IMAGE CAPTURE on the computer to send the stuff from my phone to the external drive.
I have iPhone 7. It doesn't seem as sophisticated as your newer model so I don't know if I can do it. I have it all plugged in. The Passport is glowing with a solid white indicator, just don't see anything on the iPhone 7 that's different. I don't even know if I have files.
Hi I have just tried doing this with my iphone 7 plus, but "My passport" doesn't show up on my iphone.... Does it only work with later phone models? Thank you for your help :)
Not sure with the 7 but try formatting it to exFat and then try , sorry I couldn’t be more of a help
Thanks… you saved my time !!!
Dude! You are the man!! I was pullling my hair out !!! Thx. 😀
Great video, just what I was looking for.
Can you transfer the pictures from your phone to the drive, and back to the phone? I have an iPad that has pictures my iPhone does not have, I would live to finally get them all in one
How would I unplug everything safely? Just unplug?
On my Samsung I can connect my Samsung ssd directly. Why can’t Apple just get the type c and make it easier.
Is there any way to preserve exif data when transferring photos from iPhone to hard drive using this setup? When I transferred photos in this way, all photo info seemed to be lost including the photo shoot date.
So my hard drive is connected to my phone, but when I select the picture and click "save to file", it doesn't allow me to save. I cant even create a folder. Do you have any idea why this could be happening?
Try formatting it on a computer to exFat first , that should do it
I have the port usb 3.0 high speed Hub . This is not working at all so do I really need to get the one you use ??
A me funziona senza porta usb Atolla quella che usa in video nero e luce blu mi basta il carica del mio iPhone
Hey T.I.O., question? U wanted to see if the drive stays on the phone, by unplugging it from the dongle? How is that possible? That would mean, it's not connected to the phone, Right? I don't understand? Thanks, appreciate a better understanding.
this was so helpful and informative!
I'd appreciate if you would investigate further to ascertain which versions of IOS support this feature. Those of us with earlier iPhones will thank you.
Hi, i just have the same set up now. But I do not see how to transfer photos and vedios to the external drive. How to do that?
Scrivimi se non sei riuscito che ti spiego
Need the "sleep mode" be turned "off" to insure a large transfer of files not to be interrupted ?
Hi , thanks for the vid. I followed the instructions but the save button is grayed out. Do you know a solution for this?
Try formatting to exFat on a computer then try it
When you say an SSD, do you have a link?
Can you copy your data ( pictures etc ) from your iPhone to that ext hdd?
Yes
@@TechinItOut100 thanks
So I heard I'm supposed to check to see what format my external drive is in first. I heard that I'm supposed to make it exfat for me to see the video from the external hard drive to my iPhone. Is that true or can I leave it in the original format?
Try it first , if it doesn’t show up format it to exFat
I want to use my iPhone to power my monitor & external drive together, is it possible? What kind of dongle will I need to buy for that?
Is this method working on iPhone xsmax ?
Mmmmm I have a old iPod, which I filled up very quickly. I always wondered if there was a way to have extra music on a external drive....🤷♂️ have you tried that?? 🤔🙏
This is so neat! Thanks for sharing.
can i use the atolla 3.0 (7usb slots) ‘cause the 4usb like yours isnt available to our country. thx you!
Thanks for sharing! You save my day! ,🤩👍👍
Hello Brother..
What should be external hard drive format so that data can be transferred from iPhone to Hard Disk??
exFAT
What external drive you would recommend for reasonable price ?
That was interesting. So can you transfer content to a big HD? Would it be possible to use the iPhone's camera and have the big HD as the target disc? Live? Only the HD volume will limit the time for the camera to record?
This totally worked thank you very much!
Thank YOU 🙏🏾! Enjoy !
Can you put a usb stick in the usb hub charger to transfer to usb stick?
Just curious. Could you try plugging to lightning cable, to a Samsung power brick or xiaomi or something. They have like 55W, 90W
Hey i tried this and it was successful connecting the seagate 1TB to my iphone 12 pro max, but it wont let me save my photos from iphone to the external drive. Can you pls tell me what im doing wrong with the connection or is there a way of saving photos? Thank you
Try formatting to exFat first on a computer
Thank you!! Extremely helpful tips and suggestion! ☺️
Will a portable one of those power hub usb things work? Rather than a plugged in one?
Maybe 🤔 not sure
Can you backup everything on the iPhone (not just photos and videos but documents also)? Thanks for the video - very helpful.
Yes, you can backup documents no problem. I have an iPhone and iPad Pro and although I used cloud services, I do keep a backup data on my external drive.
Yes he’s right you can , he said it perfect .
Would you do a video with this set up and show how to back pictures and files from your iPhone. Great video. I’ve always wondered why you need a computer to transfer pics and then to external drive. And cut out the middleman 👍🏼
Thank u…buying these now 👍
This was very informative, thanks a lot
Hi, can you transfer 4 k video off of the iPhone to the external drive using this set up with the powered USB hub?
Can it open the files stored in my WD My Passport HDD ( old model) with password protected into the iphone?
Hey, what’s up man bought all the components I need however what screen are you on to see if and when my passport pops up?
???????anyone????
How do u then transfer the files off and
On you phone and hard drive
Click the share button and then click save to files and choose destination !