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How to Use the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive With Your Apple iPhone

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With the amount of pictures and videos we take nowadays, it's very easy to run out of memory on your iPhone.  SanDisk offers a way to help this with their iXpand Flash Drive shown here with the iPhone 5s.

detecting iXpand

Unlike Android or Windows where you have a file browser to move files in and out of external storage, iPhone iOS operating system has no such thing.  Instead you need to download the SanDisk App here.

get start with SanDisk APP list showed on IXpand

As soon as you plug in your iXpand into your iPhone, the SanDisk App opens up automatically and you can view files on your the iXpand Flash Drive.  You can also show photos or play music and videos stored on the Flash Drive.

video list video played on iXpand

Unfortunately, due to Apple's iOS restrictions, you are unable to browse files inside your iPhone or move files from your iXpand Flash Drive into the iPhone.  You can only move content from iPhone to the iXpand Flash Drive.

downloading video transfer successfully

Now that newer iPhones support 4K video, storage is going to more and more important.  Though not perfect, the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive is a handy way to move large videos from your iPhone to another computer or just to expand your phone's storage capacity.

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