iPhone to iPad Eureka

One thing that has always been beyond my imagination is why Apple does not have a simple way of transferring photos from one device to another.

Yes I know there is iCloud and Google Photos. But they require a cloud connection. While now we are a group of friends sitting in a mountain shelter in Morocco's High Atlas with no Internet in sight.... Some use iPhones as their primary cameras. Some (like me) even decided to lug an iPad with them :)

And then came the Eureka! moment. Use the Lightning-to-USB Camera Adapter to connect to iDevices together. Yay, with this adapter you can create a lightning-to-lightning cable and transfer photos! One iDevice (the one with the adapter) launches the import app and the other behaves like a camera!

Digging further it seems the Lightning Camera Adapter is much more than a camera adapter. According to this article, other types of USB devices are supported:

• Audio/MIDI interfaces and devices
• Hubs
• Ethernet adapters
• SD card readers
• Bar code scanners

I've also tested a USB keyboard and it works too...

This also means I can plug a Type-C device using a Type-C - to - Male-A adapter. Almost like having a Type-C port in an iPad :)