The iXpand app opens to the file manager, where you can play music and videos (WMV, AVI, MKV, MP4 and MOV formats, which is more than iOS usually supports), read PDFs and simple Office documents, browse through photos and see them as a slideshow, either as previews or full screen (with a near-invisible back button in the top corner). You can play back music straight from the iXpand drive. But it's also one half of the slightly strange file transfer process - because unlike other platforms, you don't get to browse your iPhone or iPad to copy files back and forth.īack up contacts and get your photos onto the iXpand automatically. The Settings menu is where you can backup and restore your iOS contacts and turn on automatically syncing your camera roll to the iXpand drive. You can set a password for the Vault to access it on devices without Touch ID.
The password is for opening the Vault folder on devices that don't have Touch ID (including older iOS devices where you have to type the password every time you open the Vault folder). Ignore the startup guide that says you have to set that up on a Mac or PC first, so you can give it a password: you can create the Vault from the Settings menu in the app (and you can also give the drive a name there too). It might feel odd to Windows users but with no built-in file manager you need an app, and this one comes with some useful extras - like automatically encrypting files using Touch ID.
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Unlike USB drives on other platforms, you have to install an iOS app before you can use it - you get prompted to do that when you first plug in the drive, and you get prompted to allow it to run when you plug it in again (you might also get prompted for feedback, which is intrusive when you're in a hurry to copy a file). The iXpand prompts you to install the app it needs. The 128GB iXpand flash drive, with Lightning and USB connectors. This is an unusually wide flash drive (about twice the width of most USB sticks) to make room for the internal battery, with a rubbery Lightning cable on the side and a clear plastic cap for the USB connector that's almost guaranteed to get lost (you can't snap it on to the other end of the drive, so expect to leave it on a desk at some point). You need a drive with the Lightning cable like the SanDisk iXpand, which is now available as a 128GB model, and with extra security options.
Thanks to the Lightning connector, you can't just plug a Micro-USB OTG drive into your iOS devices the way you can with Android phones and Windows tablets.
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