MS ExFAT This is the upgrade to FAT 32 and can hold larger files.(It’s not a good idea to use and SD as both a camera card and a drive: The two may not gel well.) If you shoot 4K video or long clips, you can run into this issue. The disadvantage is that individual files can’t be larger than 4Gb. The big advantage is that it’s readable by almost any computer, and works great with iOS 13. Most digital cameras use it when they format SD Cards. MS FAT 32 This is the most common format for drives.If you have a Mac, you can use the Disk Utility app to format an SD card in various formats. So how should you format an SD Card as an iOS drive? (I don’t have a PC to try this with, but I’m betting it works by mounting and ejecting on PC too.) The downside is that you’ll have to do this every time you remove the SD card from the iOS reader attachment in order to get it to mount again. Mac will see the card and properly eject it so it’s readable in iOS again. Once it mounts, drag it to the Trash (or Control-Click and choose Eject).Plug the SD card into your Mac (either in the slot or an attached reader).How to get an ExFAT-formatted card to read again in iOS. So, the next time you plug the SD into an iDevice, it may not show. There seems to be a bug in iOS and iPad OS that doesn’t eject ExFAT-formatted SD cards correctly. The problem: iOS doesn’t eject ExFAT-formatted disks properly. Curiously, I put the card in my aging iMac and it popped up just fine. Recently I tried to open this card on my iPad Pro. ExFAT was the only format that could do that. My 512Gb Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card needed to be in a format that all machines could read and needed to hold video files that were bigger than 4Gb.
So why on earth would I format a SD card in ExFAT in the first place? At the place I was working, we were half-Mac/half-PC. This article will show you how to get your iDevice seeing those files again and how to format an SD card in the future to avoid the issue. Remain calm: Your files are likely all still there. If your SD is formatted in the MS ExFAT format, it may have stopped showing in Files. SDs work great as mini flash drives for the iOS through the iPad OS Files app. JIt just doesn’t work: ExFAT SDs not showing in iOS Files app.
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