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Honestly, why do I put myself through this. Last time I bought an apple product I swore it would be the last and yet here I am again.
Apple don't have sd card slots - I knew that. Android have card slots, I knew that.
Ok so after spending a grand on a phone I still have to spend £30 on a lightning to USB adapter.
Stick the usb drive in and..........this accessory uses too much power. So a quick bit of googling shows me I can buy YET ANOTHER ADAPTER which combined with a power supply NOT INCLUDED WITH THE PHONE OR ADAPTER may, just may allow me to transfer directly from a USB stick to my phone
FFFFFFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Never Never again.
Why do you want to do something as archaic as transfer stuff to a phone via USB?
Never heard of 5g?
😛
iCloud?
I haven’t plugged a phone into a computer in like 10 years.
It's the Iphone tax ,smug android user here.
I had the same trouble when I tried to plug a CD burner into mine. Tried my Syquest drive - that bugger wouldn’t work either!
Have to ask, if you want functionality which works better on an android phone, why exactly did you buy an Apple product?
iPhones do everything they are designed to well. Android devices on the other hand do more stuff but it comes at the expense of how well they do some of that stuff.
Personally I find iCloud way better than dicking around with USB. I do however have a lightning card reader for my iPad and that works really well.
Blimey Android phones still use memory cards?
If you want to transfer data to/from an iPhone use the Cloud: Amazon, Google, DropBox, MS OneDrive, iCloud etc.
Or Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, or 5g. Why on Earth would you need to hardwire it to something to transfer a file to it? You don’t even need to plug it in to charge it FFS! Luddite!
iPhones do everything they are designed to well. Android devices on the other hand do more stuff but it comes at the expense of how well they do some of that stuff.
This. ^^^
Sounds like user error to me, “smug Apple user since late 90’s”
Think of the charging cable and all the bits that you want to plug into it like pedals and GPS/Lights/guards, etc.
Not everyone charges their phone in the same way (like not everyone uses the same pedals) so they don’t supply it. Not everyone needs an AC charger, usb converter, GPS computer, helmet light, etc, so they don’t supply them.
USB drive?
Into an iPhone?
With my reputation?
I moved from android for 3 reasons (well 3.5 really)
1. Sick of android phones (mainly samsung) having crap battery life and dying after less than 2 years. Everyone I know on ios says the battery life is great, or better than android anyway and last longer with better software support for longer
2. I like my music and android resample down
3. I like my photography and iPhone 13 pro camera can give very very good results
3.5 I fancied a change after 10 years (last iphone I had was a 4)
I'was in the middle of nowhere, I needed to transfer some stuff from a USB form a guy I was interviewing and I couldn't.
Yes the cloud is great, yes USB transfer is old school but sometimes its useful. Why can't apple do the stuff it does well AND the other stuff
OP in more money than sense shocker 😂
middle of nowhere but you still found a shop selling a lightning-to-USB adapter 🤔I’was in the middle of nowhere, I needed to transfer some stuff from a USB form a guy I was interviewing and I couldn’t.
I’was in the middle of nowhere, I needed to transfer some stuff from a USB form a guy I was interviewing and I couldn’t.
If this was for a professional job - you didn't have a laptop with you?
Didn't you know in advance what you would need to do?
Not trying to make this into a pile-on but it's a bit of an odd story.
Sounds like OP’s more angry with himself - didn’t know how to use his shiny new phone and ended up looking like a knob 😀
Quite why anyone would want to use SD cards in a mobile phone is beyond me, unless they’re being a real cheapskate and buying a phone with 128Gb of storage then whining because they haven’t got enough storage. That’s what cloud storage is for. If you’re using a camera and want to copy photos to your phone, you can buy the Camera Kit, which allows the transfer of photos to your phone, or you can buy wifi-enabled SD cards and transfer photos that way, but there are real issues with relying on swapping SD cards in a mobile phone, and getting formatting problems - SD cards are not a reliable method of transferring data.
FWIW, my iPhone is now nearly two and a half years old, and I bought it with 512Gb of storage. My photos are automatically uploaded to iCloud, so I can see them later on my iPad, and I’ve got somewhere around 27,000 photos, and my Apple Music app has somewhere around 40,000 tracks in it and currently stands at 306.2Gb, because I download not stream. Not needing an SD card at all.
Theres also the issue that comes with removable storage - it compromises the integrity of the device when it comes to its water-resistance.
haha yes it was an odd situation, not properly professional, I didn't look like a knob (well no more than usual), I'm only angry with myself (and steve jobs obvs), I took the adapter on purpose but didn't check it worked beforehand (hence the anger at myself), I still stand by my statement that why the hell can't apple be good at the stuff they are traditionally good at and clean up the rest I mean the self same usb stick is dual ended and I can literally stick it in my s10 and it works - yet even with an adapter it doesn't work with a phone twice the price from apple
I’was in the middle of nowhere, I needed to transfer some stuff from a USB form a guy I was interviewing and I couldn’t.
Maybe they could email them to you?
Maybe they could email them to you?
I was going to suggest Fax as you can get USB Fax modems but, you know, USB...
I was going to suggest Fax as you can get USB Fax modems but, you know, USB…
Do dot matrix printers take USB?
Why can’t apple do the stuff it does well AND the other stuff
You're trying to get 20 years old hardware to play with brand new hardware.
I feel this isn’t going to well for the OP
USB drive?
Into an iPhone?
With my reputation?
Wins thread.
and steve jobs obvs
Sure you're not confusing him with Hugo Chavez?
Yes the cloud is great, yes USB transfer is old school but sometimes its useful
I agree. So I bought a memory stick that has usb on one end and lightning on the other - it works well. Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Android-MacBook-External-Storage-Black/dp/B08DTZ42HW/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2SVTWXS3E4ZIS&keywords=lightning%2Bmemory%2Bstick&qid=1644099300&sprefix=lightning%2Bmemory%2Caps%2C1779&sr=8-9&th=1
You had the wrong tool for the job and you're blaming this on a man who died 10 years ago.
Just moved to an iPhone and so far very happy
Loads of responses here don’t really address the ops point. He’s not trying to get his photos off to a pc. He’s trying to work with some one who has a usb drive. It’s easy with his old phone not his new one. Send fair enough to be annoyed
Easily I don’t think he got to choose west usb stick tyre other person had
As other people say. What are you trying to do with a connector. Load the items to iCloud via computer and then access them on iPhone. Apart from charging my iPhone I don’t think I’ve connected a USB to it for years
It’s easy with his old phone not his new one. Send fair enough to be annoyed
It's a very niche use of a phone, I've literally never heard of anyone trying to do this with Android or iPhone, and if I had anything even vaguely important like this to do I'd have a laptop with me, and even if the phone was the backup I'd have tested it first.
And I'm far from the most together person!
In the grand tradition of going off topic, OP, how did you transfer all the 2FA stuff from your android phone to your iphone?
2. I like my music and android resample down
"Android" doesn't do anything of the sort. Your source might, your streaming service might or your player might but that's bog all to do with the OS. The whole point of Android is that other apps are available/
Quite why anyone would want to use SD cards in a mobile phone is beyond me,
Because we begrudge paying several times the going rate for storage?
Apple is a very profitable company for a reason.
Mugs....
Quite why anyone would want to use SD cards in a mobile phone is beyond me,
Because my music is mainly comprised of DJ mixes, not individual tracks, and I like to carry it around with me, that OK?
Apple is a very profitable company for a reason.
Apple serves a purpose with various pros and cons to it. One major problem for them is they cant get to popular otherwise they risk lawsuits about abusing a monopoly position which so far they have been able to dance the line on hence the pricing.
They do have some nice features but it is important not to buy into the myths eg the ones about standing up against advertising (outside of that controlled by them) or against governments (they will stand firm for your rights against a mostly democratic one like the USA but good luck if it looks more profitable to help out a dictatorship like China).
As other people say. What are you trying to do with a connector.
Transfer some stuff during an interview. Probably one of the nichest use cases I have ever heard as well as being very odd interview practice!
There is no place for cables and SD card slots in 2022.
All that aside - just the UI on an Apple device makes me want to be violent. Horrible, just horrible
I can literally stick it in my s10 and it works – yet even with an adapter it doesn’t work with a phone twice the price from apple
Against the flow of comments this is where I agree with OP. The problem would have been avoided if Apple hadn't stuck with their antediluvian lightning port. The whole point of USB-C is that it's a hyper-flexible port for data/power/video/whatever, which Apple recognise by including it on the iPad pros and for many years as the only I/O on their laptops.
It's clearly the most sensible port to have on a phone and Apple don't use it because that would mean losing out on licensing fees for lightning peripherals.
Because my music is mainly comprised of DJ mixes, not individual tracks, and I like to carry it around with me, that OK?
Me to.
MixCloud or SoundCloud do the job for me.
As an Android AND IOS user, I honestly have no ****ing idea why people are remotely bothered by the differences.
They're both functional and simple to use, and my Android device cost more that my Apple device. How on earth you can....
All that aside – just the UI on an Apple device makes me want to be violent. Horrible, just horrible
....even in jest is beyond me. Neither are difficult to use.
I'd agree apple should use usb-c on their phones these days but I'm still not sure they'd let you just plug in random USB sticks and start pulling files off them.
They do have some nice features but it is important not to buy into the myths eg the ones about standing up against advertising (outside of that controlled by them) or against governments
Sadly though Apple are the best we've got available. Their privacy/security is significantly better than any android phone. And I'm saying this as someone who uses a Xiaomi 🙂
As a smug Apple user of many years standing, I can envisage a use for an SD card connection, in fact I have experienced such: you take photos on your camera which stores them on an SD card and you want to edit them on your phone during your lunch break. Your unuttterabley crap camera-phone transfer app doesn't work properly (yes, Fujifilm, I'm looking at you) so you want to attach the SD card to the phone somehow. As the OP says, Apple sell dongles for such a case, but they ain't cheap.
just the UI on an Apple device makes me want to be violent. Horrible, just horrible
Go on...
As a smug Apple user of many years standing, I can envisage a use for an SD card connection, in fact I have experienced such: you take photos on your camera which stores them on an SD card and you want to edit them on your phone during your lunch break. Your unuttterabley crap camera-phone transfer app doesn’t work properly (yes, Fujifilm, I’m looking at you) so you want to attach the SD card to the phone somehow. As the OP says, Apple sell dongles for such a case, but they ain’t cheap.
I’ve got a cheap (<£5) lightning to microsd adapter from Amazon for the rare occasions I want to transfer raw photos from my rx100. Works fine.
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As the OP says, Apple sell dongles for such a case, but they ain’t cheap.
But then we're into 'bought a Ferrari but can't afford the tyres' type territory aren't we. 🙂
Apple serves a purpose with various pros and cons to it. One major problem for them is they cant get to popular otherwise they risk lawsuits about abusing a monopoly position which so far they have been able to dance the line on hence the pricing.
That’s priceless. Apple would like to sell you a phone for less but competition rules mean they can’t. You do know that Apple sell less phones than Samsung and are 20% off the market
But then we’re into ‘bought a Ferrari but can’t afford the tyres’ type territory aren’t we
Indeed, and as jambo points out, you don't even need to buy the proper tyres. Some cheapo Kwik-Fit ones are available.
Slightly irritating that you can't use the same dongle to transfer files to a phone and also a (newish) iPad.
threads like this remind me of my favourite quote from Charles Babbage.
"Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.’"
Slightly irritating that you can’t use the same dongle to transfer files to a phone and also a (newish) iPad.
But you only to put them on one device and the other can access them.
TBH it sounds like the OP is largely happy with his iPhone it's sound and photography features, it's one odd edge case situation that's causing a problem. Someone wants to transfer data to him and can only do it from a usb drive?
TBH the default answer for most android users these days would also be wireless, if was there no way the information can't be stuffed across via Bluetooth, NFC, Wifi or just emailed/Dropboxed later, I'd probably have given up, buying a special cable seems like going above and beyond IMO.
As an Android AND IOS user, I honestly have no **** idea why people are remotely bothered by the differences.
It is the whole everything has to be divisive things isn't it. Some people just play to it.
I use Apple, Windows and Chromebook and switch between the three daily. I don't really care which I am using although the different shortcut keys can be a bit annoying.
I use an iPhone because I just prefer it but would happily use an Android if I had to.
@cougar. You are wrong I’m afraid. It’s nothing to go with the source etc. Android OS by default resamples everything to its version of 48khz whether it’s lower or higher or even the same! I.e even a 48khz stream will be resampled to a different version of a 48khz. You can get around this in various ways but not using many native apps for controlling music and some apps only work with some dacs etc. It’s basically a faff. I think Tidal may have sorted a really good fix but I don’t use that service. Apple OS on the other hand does no resampling at all. Apple Music with an iPhone and any half decent dac plus the lightning to usb camera adapter will allow hi res lossless to your headphones or amp with no fuss and it can be downloaded and stored easily. Poweramp etc just can’t do this on android.
it’s just a pity I couldn’t also use the same adapter to download from a usb stick but as I think has been very much covered here, not many people want to do that.
Android and iPad user here.
Apple stuff costs a fortune but the ****s won't give me an ad free calculator. It ****s me off.
If you prove me wrong I will be happy.
threads like this remind me of my favourite quote from Charles Babbage.
Yup. 'I have in my hands a device which can instantly access all of the knowledge in human history, instantly speak to anyone anywhere in the world, play me all music ever made, and I no longer need physical money or even bank cards, but it can't do this one really specific thing so it's SHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT'
iOS has its own built in calculator doesn’t it?
What’s wrong with the calculator that comes with iOS?
Turns out, not on the iPad.
Not even Drac’s?
jam-bo
Full MemberTurns out, not on the iPad.
Really?!?!?!
That is a bit ridiculous
The thing that gets me with tech is Bluetooth. Modern phones, Android or iOS, are amazing and do loads of awesome stuff but when my Bluetooth plays up and won’t connect to my speaker/earphones I lose my shit every time
That and my iPhone deciding it doesn’t like the Chromecast anymore
Not even Drac’s?
Nope. For some ridiculous idea they don’t have one.
You can type simple equations into the search bar to get a quick answer (works in spotlight on a Mac too), but it does seem odd that there isn’t a calculator.
Turns out, not on the iPad.
This stuff really winds me up about Apple! And I say this as one with a MacBook in daily use.
All these minor tweaks for the worse. This handy calculator? Sorry, had to go. The shortcut keys you used every day? All changed, and now hard coded so you can't change them back. Maximize window? You have to hold alt now, or it goes full screen on one monitor and weirdly blacks out the other. It's still good, but every upgrade requires you to Google some function that has been muscle memory for a decade, because they've moved it or hidden it. MrsDoris is still on High Sierra for exactly this reason...
iOS has its own built in calculator doesn’t it?
There's a possibly apocryphal tale about Steve Jobs not being happy that they were planning to just use the same calc app for iPhones on the iPad and not designing a dedicated one, so they removed it and then never got round to replacing it. Seems very bizarre.
I tend to just Google any calculations anyway tbh
Read these two articles about using SD and MicroSD cards.
https://www.cultofmac.com/758713/how-to-use-sd-and-microsd-memory-cards-with-iphone/
With regards to calculator apps, it’s always been very much the case that Apple supply a small suit of native apps, but have always encouraged users to find alternatives that are very often more fully featured, and free, so I honestly can’t see why anyone is still moaning about something that’s almost been a feature for a decade.
Especially so now that Apple have allowed native apps to be actually deleted rather than hidden away in a folder somewhere. I deleted a bunch of apps when I had the chance, although I’ve reinstalled Weather, just to see how much it’s been improved since Apple bought Dark Skies - answer is, significantly, but it’s still lacking certain features, so I don’t use it.
The in built iOS calculator isn’t great for anything complicated as it’s the older number then function logic.
However Desmos seems to be great and ad free. Not used it much but a student recommended it last week.
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/desmos-scientific-calculator/id1235292051
@cougar. You are wrong I’m afraid. It’s nothing to go with the source etc. Android OS by default resamples everything to its version of 48khz
Really? I'll go do some reading.
I really need to be more careful to caveat things with "as far as I'm aware."
Read these two articles about using SD and MicroSD cards.
The first one of which is bollocks from end to end, the second is about iPhones and I don't know about that so didn't read it.
I'll be happy to debunk the former later, but I'm off out.
(as far as I'm aware)
My 5S is still going strong. Does everything I need from a smartphone and fits in my pocket.
I’ll be happy to debunk the former later, but I’m off out.
Thus. Six reasons why you shouldn't use SD cards.
1) Some cards are slow.
Correct. So don't use shit cards, this is storage 101.
2) Something anecdotally went wrong for me with an old shit phone.
Unfortunate. Cool starry bra.
2.1) Something about local storage.
Don't do that then. Googly devices and fruity devices have both defaulted to storing profile data in the cloud for, what, a decade now?
3) It's hard to find files.
Anyone with sufficient nous to go looking through the filesystem in the first place likely isn't going to be phased by a ./SDCARD shortcut or a Memory Card appearing next to Internal Storage. You can't find your downloads? Have you looked in "Downloads"?
Also, see 2.1.
4) SD cards have a limited number of read/write cycles.
There's a lot to unpick here. Let's go with, this hasn't been an issue for several years now but if it were then it'd be equally true of your device's internal storage so it'd be an argument in favour of replaceable cards.
I guarantee you'll be going "end of contract, yay 'free' phone upgrade" long before an SD expires. Ask yourself: how many phones have you retired in the last 20 years? And how many SD cards likewise?
5) Something about moving cards between phones.
First, see 2.1 again. Who does this? Second, fixed internal storage is supposed to fix this non-issue how? It may be difficult to move storage between devices so the solution is to make it impossible? Wut?
6) Game performance.
I mean, this is 1) again only with a side order of begging the question.
Had the same issue with the lightning to USB adaptor, there are two options one which is powered and which isn't. I use the powered version to pull photos from my old Sony digital camera, which uses compact flash cards, onto my iPad so I can edit and upload them while travelling.
Yes its a pain in the butt, yes the iPad/iPhone should be able to power a USB thumb drive via the lightning port but I will take this small amount of pain for the ease of use of the rest of the system.
As one example I answer incoming calls on the iPad or Mac as a speaker phone or my Apple Watch in a pinch every day which more than makes up for the pain of having to use an adaptor to download photos every now and again.
There was a time, I think it was perhaps 2013 or so, where internal storage mattered. I'd filled up my phone with music and podcasts and it was faintly annoying to have to delete some stuff in order to add more. I probably had a 1Gb data contract.
Now: iCloud, Spotify (actually, Youtube Music), Google Drive. Even apps I use infrequently are 'offloaded' into the cloud. My 4G data contract gives me 160Gb so even if I don't have wifi, I don't worry about download volume. Occasionally, I'll see some buffering when for a second when I try to pull up the full resolution version of a photo I took four years ago.
Also aroundabout 2013, people were beginning to realise that internet arguments between Apple and Google fanboys were utterly pointless. This forum really needs to catch up.
I don't think anyone's actually arguing, are they?
I don't get on with iPhones. My ex had one (actually, several) and I found them to be obtuse and counterintuitive. She'd have said the same of my succession of Android devices. Does that make one better or worse than the other? Of course not, it's merely personal preference.
Would iCloud not work for you for transferring files?
Can someone make this pointless non-argument TOTW so it’ll FOAD.
there is nothing I cannot do on my stupid phone,
ifones are fine till you want to do something differently or it goes tits up and you have nothing.
apples are not the only fruit.
smug jailbroken control freak android user here
The really sad thing about this story,is how bad that guy must have felt,when near the end of the interview .....he handed Winston the flash drive.
Up until that moment he probably thought "I am doing ok,here,so far so good".
Only to get 'the look' -->>
😉🙃🤣