Do you have a problem with your USB-C iPhone and it can't see or connect to your external USB-C SSD storage Drive? While there could be a number of reasons why this is happening. As long as your external drive is formatted to a disk format that iPhone understands. It could be that your external SSD requires more power than your iPhone can supply. In this video I show you how a Gen 4 NVMe SSD can't be seen by my iPhone because it requires too much power in combination with the USB-C and Thunderbolt NVMe enclosures that I am using. I also give some recommendations of what type of external USB-C SSD you can use with your iPhone. One way to get around this is to use a powered hub or dock but that's only really useful if you are indoors. If you are trying to use a traditional hard drive with your iPhone, as in, as spinning mechanical hard drive. Most of these wont work and will need to be connected to a powered hub or dock. Earlier iPhones before the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16, such as the iPhone 14, iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone 10, iPhone Mini and iPhone SE etc. Which use a Lightning socket and not a USB socket will also have this exact same problem. For my demonstration I am using an iPhone 16 Pro Max. However all iPhones suffer from this problem. At most an iPhone will only supply a maximum of 4.5W to its USB-C port or Lightning port and this power is simply not enough for certain external hard drives or external USB-C SSD storage drives. Video chapters: 00:00 Intro and explanation 01:01 Hardware setup 06:36 Test 1 07:57 test 2 09:27 Test 3 11:03 Test 4 13:06 Test 5 14:13 Test 6 15:55 Test 7 17:37 Test 8 18:29 Test 9 20:16 End summary and recommendations Here's some video that you may find interesting: How To Build The Fastest External Thunderbolt 4 USB4 SSD For Your M1 M2 M3 Apple Silicon Mac MacBook ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sV9EDKc5zpk.htmlsi=9r5gdz6mlVJakr-v Best and Fastest External USB-C SSD Drive for Your iPhone 15 using Samsung SSD 980 Sabrent Enclosure ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YHbkrF4W1cI.html iPhone 15 Not Working With USB-C SSD ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uk-3yp9Zc3E.html iPhone 15 Pro Max SSD Speed Test With a 1TB Samsung T7 External USB-C SSD Storage Drive ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CkRUqqA_4V4.html iPhone 15 Problems With External SSD ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h9DiORV6DRc.html Here's my iPhone 16 playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLleKChtNUwZRmt2wIdprAJ5ry5XZSlTiW Here's my iPhone 15 playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLleKChtNUwZQS2gQH2AaeSnEj9iM_6tDX Components used in the video. Don't forget, I would not advise using the Acasis enclosures for your iPhone, use the Sabrent enclosure and the Samsung SSD980. Keep an eye on my channel for my upcoming new ACASIS Thunderbolt SSD builds for MacBook Pro and Mac. I would also not recommend buying any of these enclosures for iPhones with the lightning socket on them. iPhone 16 Pro Max geni.us/rdAXg ACASIS TBU401E ACASIS website geni.us/Acasis-TBU401 ACASIS TBU401E Amazon geni.us/u9A5heL ACASIS TBU405Pro M1 ACASIS website bit.ly/4eF6Kh7 ACASIS TBU405Pro M1 Amazon geni.us/ACASIS-TBU405ProM1 ACASIS website for Thunderbolt and USB-C docks, hubs and enclosures bit.ly/45RAaUA Sabrent enclosure amzn.to/3XJ9brF WD SN850X 4TB geni.us/SN850X-4TB WD SN850X 2TB geni.us/SN850X-2TB WD SN850X 1TB geni.us/SN850X-1TB Crucial P3 4TB geni.us/OAdU Samsung T7 1TB geni.us/pqBzC9T AMAZON ASSOCIATE DISCLOSURE: I am an Amazon Associate. My Amazon links are Amazon affiliate links. I earn money from qualifying purchases when you use my Amazon affiliate links. OTHER EARNINGS AND COMMISSIONS: I also earn money from other product links within my video description. For the sake of clarity and for the avoidance of any confusion, assume that I earn money from commissions from any and all links that I have within my video description. You can also send me a coffee donation via PayPal if you found my video super helpful: www.paypal.me/DavidHarry My Amazon pages with videos and product links: Amazon USA www.amazon.com/shop/davidharry Amazon UK www.amazon.co.uk/shop/davidharry If you would like to help my channel please use my global Amazon Affiliate links. I will be paid a small commission for anything you buy from Amazon when using these links. These commissions don't cost you any extra but really do help me to buy gear for my productions and to review: Amazon USA: geni.us/Amazon-USA Amazon UK: geni.us/Amazon-UK Amazon Deutschland: geni.us/Amazon-Deutschland Amazon France: geni.us/Amazon-France Amazon España: geni.us/Amazon-Espana Amazon Italia: geni.us/Amazon-Italia Amazon Canada: geni.us/Amazon-Canada Contact for product reviews: RU-vid@DavidHarry.com www.DavidHarry.com I’m David Harry. Thank you very much for watching this video, take care and goodbye now. Cheers, Dave. #DavidHarry#LiverpoolTV
I got my iPhone 16 pro to work with the Sabrent enclosure you recommend and a Samsung 990 pro 2tb. formatted with exfat.. The iPhone recognized and recorded to it. Thanks for the videos. I was stumped by this issue for a while. keep it up!
Thanks for the video I just ran into this problem as I have the same setup as you WD ssd and same enclosure so all be getting something different for my iPhone 16pro probably the Samsung T9 4TB
If you really want to make most external USB-c NVMe SSD works. One need to good HUB which can transfer 10gb per second and PD. Plus a power bank. I got it working for my phone 15 pro. As this will not be easy to carry around when recording.
Are cables etc (or any external 'things' you can plug in a phone) compatible with iPhone 16 also compatible with iPhone 16 pro and vice versa. Keep seeing videos about iPhone 16, or so the title says, but turns out they are talking about iPhone 16 pro. So do external components work with both. All the cables I used with my older model phone are no longer compatible with my new phone. Have bought some adapters under the impression they would work, but they didn't.
Nice investigation Dave. That makes a lot of sense. Appreciate you reviewing all of this as Apple doesn't provide any information about this limitation.
Alright, Kevin. Yes, I've had murder with these things since the 15PM. I really enjoyed your last video about the new Xaoimi 👍 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eHcnTjg7Vrk.htmlsi=5bOcR1oVyIQla0oY Cheers, Dave.
@@DavidHarry I always meant to use the high Res video more, but didn't do much beyond a few tests. Thanks Dave. I'm looking forward to playing around with the phone.
Hi. Check the description there's a video showing how to connect ab SSD to a Lightning port iPhone, which may help you to choose the correct SSD. Cheers, Dave.
