SD/MicroSD Card Reader?

[TheArgonaut77]

Does anyone know of an actual working SD/MicroSD card reader for iPhone? I had one off brand that worked and suddenly stopped. I have ordered four different off-branded ones and none of them worked. I bought the Apple branded SD card reader and it doesn’t work. When I say doesn’t work I mean it doesn’t recognize anything, that it’s plugged in, has a card inserted or not, nothing. I was using it to move my photos off my phone so I can free up space. Not interested in cloud based anything. Does anything know of a working product or solution to my phone recognizing a reader in files or photos? It’s frustrating Apple sells a branded product that does not work whatsoever (which also feels not legal but whatever). Im running an iPhone 13 Pro, 512gb, iOS 16.4.1. Thanks in advance for any helpful responses.

 

[bob_zz123]

The Apple one works fine for me, although it doesn't do anything unless there's a card inserted into it and then it shows up in the Files app.

You could also do (more expensively):

iPhone 13 Pro -> Apple Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adaptor -> Any old USB card reader -> SD Card
(you will almost certainly have to provide power to the adaptor via. a Lightning cable)

If you do this way it's a bit more flexible so you could also test out a USB flash drive as opposed to a card reader / card combo.

Make sure your card is formatted in an appropriate format, mine works with cards using the very standard MBR partition map formatted FAT32 or ExFAT.