Can’t backup anything other than photos and videos
As many have said in other reviews, I can’t send files from other apps (or access in the drive in my files app because my devices are older models). This is unacceptable for a device meant to backup files, especially because the previous app DID have this utility. If you fix it then I will upgrade by review to 5 stars, but for right now this app is absolutely terrible!! find some other ios-compatible flash drive to buy!!
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not as good as the old app
This app is replacing the old app the was great. This app is not as good. It has many backup options, can’t say anything about them because i have no use for them. The photo parts of the app to add photos to the usb is inferior to the old app. It’s near impossible to find most recent photos. I am also not a fan off the new ads in the app. Hopefully the app updates soon to be more like the old app. If it doesn’t it makes the usb part a lot less useful
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SanDisk Memory Zone - Not quite what I was expecting
Just recently bought the SanDisk 265GB iXpand Flash Drive Go with the intent of offloading files from my iPhone 11 onto it to clear up some space. However upon using the app, I’m finding there’s no way to transfer files from other apps on my iPhone to the flash drive. The ability to “open in” or share or transfer files from another app to the iXpand app is nonexistent on the iPhone 11. The SanDisk iXpand Drive app on the other hand has this feature but is sadly being removed in the near future and and will be u supported.
The iPhone backup function works fine however it lacks the ability to be able to play videos from the drive. Photos show up fine. In terms of viewing files on the drive via the app, it’s missing the option to view the files by creation date or modified date or any sort of date sorting order.
If the ability to save files or “open in” from other apps into this app becomes available for us older phone users, then this product (that I just purchased) and this app will have met my expectations and my need for this product and app. Currently it’s short of that and the iXpand Flash Drive Go is just an expensive and useless $60 purchase.
The iPhone backup function works fine however it lacks the ability to be able to play videos from the drive. Photos show up fine. In terms of viewing files on the drive via the app, it’s missing the option to view the files by creation date or modified date or any sort of date sorting order.
If the ability to save files or “open in” from other apps into this app becomes available for us older phone users, then this product (that I just purchased) and this app will have met my expectations and my need for this product and app. Currently it’s short of that and the iXpand Flash Drive Go is just an expensive and useless $60 purchase.
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Dumb backup only
The old app worked really well, but now is being discontinued. If you expect improvements, forget it the only function the new app provides is a dumb back up of only photos, videos and contacts. You can’t transfer other sorts of files using this new app. You also cannot be selective in what you transfer. It’s all your photos or none. All your videos are done. All your contacts or none. And nothing else. I used the old app to transfer and back up all kinds of data, but for some reason Sandisk has decided to limit the use of its USB device. Makes no sense. Until they restore the former capability, I have to give this one star.
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Compatible
The flash drive as well as the app, made viewing Photos, videos a breeze, especially when there is so much different formats for. Video.
Worthless
Purchased my iXpand drive so that I can transfer files from equipment I use in the field to my phone so that I could upload them remotely. The new app no longer allows me to do this because the files are “unsupported”. I dont need your program to read the files just move them from my drive to my phone. Now I have a useless lightning usb drive that cost way too much
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Please don’t discontinue the IXpand app:(
I have used the IXpand app for years to save and manage all of my business and personal photos for all of my family members ….it was quick, easy to navigate, and most importantly let me manually choose photos and save by date… this new app only lets me choose to back up all of my photos each time, which I have thousands on my phone and will not let me just pick certain ones… pretty please make this one more like that one
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IXpand App Better
Sandisk is forcing users to move from IXpand app, over to this app. This app is extremely limited in the ability to choose what you want to backup. You either have to backup everything on your entire phone, or tap each photo/video one by one if you want individual days. This app is so limited. I really hope they edit this app to allow you to have more freedom over what you want to backup.
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Will continue to use the old app
The new app is a awful. It limits the flexibility I have in opening documents. If all you do is store photos maybe its okay, but I use my flash drive to move and manipulate documents between devices. In the old app I could open CSV files in Numbers and work from there. Now it opens them as text documents and there are too many manipulations to work with them as I need to. Why not just leave a good thing alone!
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Awful
The original expand worked very well. This new THING is atrocious. Not clear and it produces a backup that has proprietary files that cannot be opened on the computer. Just a bunch of junk, in my opinion. Don’t try to fix what’s not broken!!!
