Bought this for my stepfather on Father's Day, so far it has been a blessing. First off, this was made by those boys in Silicon Valley. It's not a knock off and as such it fits into the Lightning port as it should. Second, it interacts with the devices appropriately because it was made by those boys in Silicon Valley! Sometimes you just need to hunker down and pick up the intended proprietary peripheral. The intent is to use the reader for when you don't have a PC/Laptop nearby. In our case, it's been for wildlife observation on trail cams. Before, he had to take a laptop with him in the field to sort through wildlife files on a trail cam. Now he only needs the cable and his phone to check a SanDisk card. It has a neat perk where after saving files to an iPhone, iPad, etc. it will ask to delete the remaining files. This helps him because trail cams pick up A LOT of nuisance photos, like coyotes and raccoons, when he's after whitetail deer. So, bring a $500 laptop or desktop to a deer ranch, or switch cards out and wait to see the photos later at home (travel is time consuming), or take your phone and a $23 SD Cable Reader Cable with you and check the cards in minutes out in the field? It's an obvious choice; I highly recommend the cable.

So this device works exactly as intended and can turn any Apple device with a lightening port into an SD Card viewer. The problem however is that Apple’s IOS does not allow you to view full images on the SD Card without first saving the images to your device. In other words, you can only see small thumbnail images of photos or videos on your SD Card until you choose to save the files to your photo album. Apple should really fix it to where you can view the full image and select to save it before importing the photo. For someone like me who uses my iPhone to view my game camera pictures while out in the woods, a tiny thumbnail image will not tell me anything about the files captured on my game cameras. I literally have to import all and then manually delete the files once I am able to view the full image.

So excited when I found this genuine Apple product that said it would import pics and videos from a camera sd card. Unfortunately it would only import pics or videos if they had 8 character names (plus .jpg, . AVI, or .MP4, etc.). I found that I could put the card in a laptop and rename every video to 8 characters (ie. VID12345.AVI) and it would show up to import on my IPad Air (but what’s the point of having an iPad if I have to go to the trouble?) If the name came out of the camera with seven characters (ie. VID1234.AVI) the iPad would not recognize it. I spent 2 hours talking with some very nice and diligent people from Apple, but to no avail. It just won’t work. Honestly Apple should be smarter on this one. Don’t buy this adapter unless all your pics and videos come out of your camera with 8 character names!

Typical Apple overpriced accessory I’ve been looking at this accessory for quite some time I just didn’t know if I really needed it while after I bought a drone I decided it was time. And I’m a lil upset I didn’t get it sooner it allows you to upload the videos or pictures of the specific memory card to your IOS device as simple as a few seconds it makes looking at the footage taken or pictures taken and editing them off your IOS device easy and simple with mobile PH LR and other tools now your able to edit on the spot and upload right away. Makes it easier then pulling out the MacBook Pro and having to do it that way also has it is the MacBook Pro don’t have a card reader anymore either so this makes it even simpler to to get it into the Apple ecosystem. My only other gripe is now I’ll have to buy the USB c version thanks Apple sometimes I wish Apple would not try to be so innovative and make s*** simple like adding memory cards to iPhones already what are in 2007 still.

This little adapter saved me a lot of $$$!!! simply pull the SD card out of the camera. place in the adapter, and plug the adapter in the phone. my phone pulled up the photos within a few seconds. select and copy the photos you want and import. the only slow part is if you have iCloud photos turned on it can take a bit for the photos to transfer up to the cloud. if you have that off, its quick. I used a few in phone apps and boom! fully edited photos from my Nikon Full Frame camera straight to the phone, and then post to wherever i want. Totally perfect for my needs right now. Didn't have to buy a new computer to get heavy into cost. But if your going to be doing professional work, get a good editing machine. this adapter is great for quick sharing. No problems with full file size transfers in Jpeg and RAW 14bit.

There's not much I can say about the lightning SD card reader; it works. It doesn't take much time to copy 24MP RAW photos off of an SDXC card I have onto my iPad Pro so I can quickly edit them. It took only a couple of minutes to copy over 300 photos onto the iPad, the speed was actually a bit faster than my Mac Mini using its built-in SDXC card reader. Videos are quickly copied over too. I do wish that you could actually copy movies and other content over (you technically can copy movies over, they'll just be in your photos labeled as "home videos") but this is a nice accessory for people who want to edit their photos right on their iPads without having to lug around a notebook or go back to a desktop. Imported RAW (and JPEG) photos work with Photoshop Express, Photoshop Fix, Lightroom, and Photoshop Mix without issues.

I initially didn’t purchase this product bc the BB step indicated downloading the images was not possible. Well, upon seeing it be done with friends and their after market versions, I bought it. It’s AWESOME!!! To take a SD card out of the camera and be able to upoload Amy pictures to your device and post instantaneously into a social media outlet was rewarding and such a brilliant idea!!! Where has this product been all my life! No need to take SD Card and find a computer to download images. All can be done on iPhone or iPad immediately! Perfect gift fro oneself or for someon that uses a “camera” to take pictures. Convenient!!!

I bough this card reader thinking it will help me to much faster download my photos to my tablet ..which it doesn’t ...the imaging loading is decent but lags at times to send files over to the tablet..I thought it was the memory card itself but then I’ve noticed that sometimes would load the photos fast and sometimes it won’t load them at all. And what I mean by load, I mean no image or photos were visible to see and select ..I had to select the blank files and download them hoping I would get the right photo to import. ...but over all it does help me a lot when I’m not near my computer and I need the photos in a more “quicker” way.