Aplimln SD Card Reader for iPhone iPad, 3 in 1 SD Card
Aplimln SD Card Reader for iPhone iPad, 3 in 1 SD Card Viewer with MicroSD & SD Card Slot for Trail Game Camera, Photography Memory Card Adapter, Simultaneous Charging and Card Reading, Plug and Play
This item arrived nicely packaged in a plastic bag. I actually chose this item incorrectly, as I have a samsung phone and this SD reader is for apple products. But i gave this to my brother to use and he says it’s good, easy to use and does the job nicely. It also seems very cheap for what you ge
I bought this to save my files from procreate to an SD card.
It works perfectly, apart from being able to use SD and micro SD at the same time
Seeing this device available via Amazon Vine, I thought it could be useful in future and presumed that I could also use it on my Android phone via a lightning to USB-C adapter (of the opposite type to the one used before) but that does NOT work. Nothing recognised.
I did however, after initial difficulty, get it to work with someone else’s i-phone, so it does work as intended.
The one I received has a lightning power input, NOT USB-C as stated on the website. Furthermore, powering my Android phone with a lightning connector directly into the card reader device and the device’s little lightning cable connected to my phone via an adapter charges at one third of the rate (3 times the estimated time to full) compared with the lightning cable + adapter into the phone without the card reader. Have not had the opportunity of seeing if charging of an i-phone is similarly affected, though I suspect it would be. All the same, it may be useful to have some top-up charging if spending a while transferring data etc.
In summary, it works as intended with an i-phone. It is not the device’s fault that it doesn’t work with an Android phone using an appropriate adapter. It does not bother me that the power input is lightning, not USB-C as stated, but others may be disappointed in that. Almost knocked off a star for that but just 3 stars would be unfair.
I was a little confused as the advert suggests you can connect devices to the USB-C connector.
This is a Apple lightning connectors for devices that support that interface such as an iPad or iPhone, it also has a SD Card reader, a Micro SD card reader and a passthrough Apple lightning connector to use the readers AND charge the device at the same time.
Plugging the device into my Apple iPad Air and accessing the files through “files’ icon shows as and SD Card when a card is fitted, this worked perfectly and I was able to access video files on the SD Card without issues.
Plugging in the original Lightning cable allowed me to charge the device at the same time as using it to access the Micro SD or SD Cards I tested.
For some reason the advert shows USB-C Devices being able to connect, this is not thew case for this device.
There were two of us that tested this by transferring photos from an SD card to an iPad. Both of us are pretty tech savvy.
The instructions looked really simple to follow, but it ended up taking the best part of an hour to get 9 photos showing in the Photo App on the iPad! The actual card reader worked brilliantly, and getting the photos transferred to the “Files” app was no problem and was pretty quick. Getting the photos then transferred to the Photo App for viewing was the problem!
Now, as this was the first time that we’ve transferred photos from a camera to an iPad, we did think it would take a bit longer than it should, but things that should have been on the screen according to the instruction manual (see photos), just weren’t there. After several readings of the instructions and attempts, we finally succeeded by a round-the-houses route, but I suspect that there is a solution that would work much quicker if we only knew what it was!
My rating for the SD Card reader itself would be the full 5 stars, but I’ve knocked one off for the instructions. At the time of this review, the iPad was on iOS 17.3, so I suspect that the instructions would have been very good for an earlier iOS version (they say iOS13 or later).
If you’re thinking of getting one of these, maybe research how the files should be transferred in advance?
If you’re the seller, how about having the opportunity to download a pdf file of current instructions from the listing?