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I have an iPad Pro (12.9, 1st Gen). I recent purchased a usb flash drive and it has a lightening adapter. However, recently, I spent a good deal of time copying photos onto the flash drive, only to plug it into the iPad and it shows up as empty. As you can imagine, this is fairly frustrating. I was of the belief my iPad was a 64GB model but thankfully, It's a 128gb so I've just decided to copy all the photos onto the iPad itself.
This may seem trivial, but I'm not too knowledgeable about the workings of iOS and I seem to be unaware of how to get something onto the iPad. In the past, I used to just upload to the Google Drive (When dealing with Android) and download from there but I can't seem to even see any ability to do that and my iCloud data is severely limited. When plugging the iPad into my laptop, nothing registers. I'm attempting to persevere with the USB route but is there a way to do this seemingly easy task of just simply transferring photos from PC to iPad ? I dont own any other iOS devices. Last time I did, iTunes was the only way. I've never used iTunes with this iPad so I'm worried everything already on the iPad will get deleted.
These are my various failed attempts;
I have a photo folder on the USB which had nearly 2'000 photos. I copied them all over. It took ages, but that was to be expected. However, the photos only seem to be visible on the app for the USB (An app is required for the USB to interact with iPad). I cant find the folder in Photos, Files or any 3rd party gallery apps. The proprietary app while it does show the photos, they are out of order and I am unable to sort them.
I was of the belief you couldn't download from Google Drive. I've never seen an option, however I was made aware of it so I spent another 2 hours uploading the photos onto Google Drive, only to see on my iPad, no way of downloading an entire folder. Individual, or mini sets seemed to be doable, however I don't plan on downloading 2'000+photo this way.
The final way was to access Google Drive via the Files app. I thought I hit gold with I tried to copy the folder to the iPad but it just spend an hour "copying", not showing any progress and then refreshed to nothing.
I'm beginning to get awfully frustrated. I don't plan on purchasing an lightning SD card reader as it's just another addition I don't really require. Is there an easier and 0 £££ way than this ?
This may seem trivial, but I'm not too knowledgeable about the workings of iOS and I seem to be unaware of how to get something onto the iPad. In the past, I used to just upload to the Google Drive (When dealing with Android) and download from there but I can't seem to even see any ability to do that and my iCloud data is severely limited. When plugging the iPad into my laptop, nothing registers. I'm attempting to persevere with the USB route but is there a way to do this seemingly easy task of just simply transferring photos from PC to iPad ? I dont own any other iOS devices. Last time I did, iTunes was the only way. I've never used iTunes with this iPad so I'm worried everything already on the iPad will get deleted.
These are my various failed attempts;
I have a photo folder on the USB which had nearly 2'000 photos. I copied them all over. It took ages, but that was to be expected. However, the photos only seem to be visible on the app for the USB (An app is required for the USB to interact with iPad). I cant find the folder in Photos, Files or any 3rd party gallery apps. The proprietary app while it does show the photos, they are out of order and I am unable to sort them.
I was of the belief you couldn't download from Google Drive. I've never seen an option, however I was made aware of it so I spent another 2 hours uploading the photos onto Google Drive, only to see on my iPad, no way of downloading an entire folder. Individual, or mini sets seemed to be doable, however I don't plan on downloading 2'000+photo this way.
The final way was to access Google Drive via the Files app. I thought I hit gold with I tried to copy the folder to the iPad but it just spend an hour "copying", not showing any progress and then refreshed to nothing.
I'm beginning to get awfully frustrated. I don't plan on purchasing an lightning SD card reader as it's just another addition I don't really require. Is there an easier and 0 £££ way than this ?