Getting some photos onto an old Ipad Mini

[blueST]

Can anyone help with this? I have a really old 1st gen iPad Mini and I want to use it as a standalone hand held photo album at an event. I just want to be able to swipe through a load of photos whilst not connected to the web or anything. The photos are currently on a USB stick and in my Google Drive storage. The iPad is so old that the Chrome and Drive Apps are not supported so I can't access the pics that way. Dropbox app wont run on it either. I can't see any way to get files onto the iPad via iTunes.

Can anyone help?

[imck]

Used digital photo frames on Ebay from about £20 if you can't find a solution.

[xeny]

Would be tedious if there are a lot of photos, but could you view them in the web browser and save them from there?

[STick220]

Plug the iPad into a PC via a USB cable then drag and drop the pictures to it?

[blueST]

STick220 said:

Plug the iPad into a PC via a USB cable then drag and drop the pictures to it?

I only have a Mac, that doesn't seem to work. It doesn't behave like a mass storage device.

[toohuge]

Upload the images to cloud storage, google drive / onedrive etc. Then share the folder with a weblink and download from there?

[Tony1963]

Roughly how many photos?

[x5tuu]

How old and what OS as the Files app should be available for it - which would mean a drag/drop scenario … or if you have a mac, just airdrop them directly

[blueST]

Tony1963 said:

Roughly how many photos?

At a guess, about 100

[blueST]

x5tuu said:

How old and what OS as the Files app should be available for it - which would mean a drag/drop scenario … or if you have a mac, just airdrop them directly

I’d have to come back on the exact OS, but I did check already and there’s no Files app. It’s the first ever Mini, so it’s pretty old.

[x5tuu]

blueST said:

I’d have to come back on the exact OS, but I did check already and there’s no Files app. It’s the first ever Mini, so it’s pretty old.

Yeah it probably won't have the Files app - should be able to airdrop to it though - and you could do this in bulk

[595Heaven]

I don't think any iPad Mini used the old 30-pin connector, but were only Lightning. You can get an USB / SD Card reader that will plug into the Lightning Port:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightning-Connector-Adapt...

Hmmm.... Just read that it doesn't have the Files app, so not sure this will work...

Is it a static set of images, or do they change per event? E.g. Are you taking photos at an event and want to share them?

If they are in Google Drive, can you not hotspot to your phne and use Safari to view the Google drive?

Edited by 595Heaven on Saturday 19th August 13:08

[mikef]

I use iMazing which lets you drag and drop between Mac and iPad/iPhone (among other useful things)

From the tech specs, it looks to support all the way back to iPad 1st generation https://imazing.com/tech-specs

[blueST]

Thanks for all the help, but I’ve sacked it off. I did manage to get a picture on it by emailing a link, but the device is so slow and unresponsive it is practically unusable.