How To Connect An External USB SSD Storage Drive To An iPhone & Copy, Move, Backup & Duplicate Files

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In this video I show how to connect an external USB SSD drive to an iPhone. This method will also work for connecting other types of USB storage devices to an iPhone, such as thumb drives and USB SD card readers.

For this example I'm using an iPhone 13 Mini with the Apple Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. This adapter is very important as it allows the connection of the iPhone charger via its Lightning port so extra power can be used to power the external USB SSD.

And the external USB SSD that I'm using is the Samsung T7, this one being the 1TB version.

I also show how simple it is to copy and paste a video file from the external SSD to the internal storage of the iPhone. You could of course go the other way and backup files from your iPhone to the external storage. Basically this video shows you How to use a USB hard drive with an iPad/iPhone when using Lightning.

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I tried this method and it still didn’t work. However, after doing some research what I ended up doing was use a powered usb hub for the power of course, connect the T7 to the usb hub, and then connect the usb hub to the lightning adapter and it worked! This also worked on the SanDisk SSD

Hope this helps anyone!

giovannibenitezcruz
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The best video I've seen on this topic. I didn't understand why people were having to use a USB hub until now.

tacrewgirl
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Thanks to you I knew the exact products I needed to buy, and I now have a simple way to move media off my phone, something that would take me multiple steps and too often wasted time & annoyance at download mishaps. And no icloud or pc or internet access needed, love that. Just for others to know as I was wondering and hoping it would work the same, but I purchased the newer 2022 rugged T7 shield and it works just the same as the 2020 t7 shield you have in your video. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise as I can now have peace of mind & efficiency instead of dread every time I need to move media.

rrk
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Absolutely crystal clear and concise. Production quality 5 stars. Thank you.

peterwachter
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Finally a way to save stuff on my iPad and iPhone without going through a third-party app or the iCloud thank you very much I can’t believe it was this MF hard you would think that this process would be much easier

jamesjones
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David is consistently reliable in tackling everyday things no one else bothers to explain clearly and concisely.
The more I see him exploring Mac in more recent videos the more convinced I become that Apple makes things unnecessarily complicated -- perhaps because they have a habit of wanting to draw people into their 'eco-universe' -- which is not 'eco' at all.
The recent shift to RISC architecture (which some of us remember from the UK in the 1980s) and ARM chips certainly have a positive ecological impact but the corporate thinking is still stuck in luxury thinking and excessive profits. Microsoft is just as bad and late to the party with ARM licence architecture.
Both companies really need to innovate on the customer interaction/ease of use front -- or look back to when computing was fun and educational with big business needs having separate divisions. Switch on horrid Windows 11 or lazy Ventura and there is nothing alluring to stimulate young minds to communicate with the world in a linear way as was once the case.We all went on a journey and eventually would encounter tools for business.
Now it is straight to the business world with flat graphics, poor colour nuance and accessibility aids are severe and grudging.
Those of us who work in the medical and special education fields used to be able to feel assured that there was interest. Now it is missing and might explain why bespoke Linux systems and sub-systems are rapidly filling the yawning chasm.

stephenhall
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How do you back up photos from internal storage of iPhone to the external hard drive?

EddieLove
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Thank you so much for this content David! I was amazed how little instruction there was out there for the iphone to SSD transfer considering the need.

kmac
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At last, after wading through umpteen videos with vital pieces of info missing, a proper explanation! Thank you David Harry!

Chanson_Dada
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This is the best. Do note if you usb c cable with an usb a adapter it won’t work. You do need the usb c to usb a cable. It’s already provided with the T7

timmark
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This is why Apple needs to add USB-C to the iPhone. I find it ridiculous that you have to buy a dongle to use an external SSD. In addition, a power source is required since the SSD requires too much power.

smartphonefan
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omg finally! Thought I bought a defective dongle, it was opened, off ebay. But I think before I watched this I had it wired up wrong. This video told me the lightning in is for the power bank. The other thing was USB lead. My T7 is USB-C. I have three USB A to C leads, but the first one I tried doesn't work. The others do!! Also you have to give it a minute til the light on the T7 starts flashing. Data coming through!!

alfred
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1:17 most of us fail to connect it at one try. Impressive mate

psysya
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so, how do you backup your photos from the Iphone to the External Hard Drive?

stormXviper
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This video right here is exactly what I was wondering last night thank you so much

mitchthehxr
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Is there a way for me to back up my
Iphone to iCloud then from iCloud to an external hard drive?

chantalle
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David thank you for the detailed instruction and guidance.

rumbatumba
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Good video and clear explanation. However, the external usb drive (idiskk) doesn't show up in the locations in files on my iphone 11 pro, even after I've reformatted it as exfat. Any thoughts?

htemxvy
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Thanks for posting this video. I bought the dongle and SSD T7 and connect them successfully to my iPhone 6S trying to transfer photos from my iPhone to the SSD but constantly receive an error message! please advise

Fidel-tkrq
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Thanks for the video, is it possible to watch on my iPad 6 movie from regular usb with that item

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