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USER GUIDE
iXpand™ Flash Drive
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
951 SanDisk Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record and
licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products.
©2016 Western Digital Corporation. All rights reserved

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  • Page 1 USER GUIDE iXpand™ Flash Drive Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 951 SanDisk Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record and licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products. ©2016 Western Digital Corporation. All rights reserved...
  • Page 2 Introduction Getting Started • Overview • Connecting to iPhone or iPad Applications • App Overview • Taking Photos and Videos • Backup and Restore Files • Backup Social Media Accounts • Back Up and Restore Contacts • File Management • Photo •...

  • Page 3: Instructional Icons

    Instructional Icons Warning Information Quick Tip...
  • Page 4 Drive you’re always ready to take more. Free up Space Fast!  Free up space on your iPhone or iPad quickly and easily with the iXpand Flash Drive Simply plug in the Lightning connector and you can easily move photos, videos and...
  • Page 5 Mac computer or PC or store them on the drive. Automatic Photo Backup  Set the iXpand mobile app to automatically back up your iPhone or iPad camera roll anytime the drive is connected. No need to manually select which photos to back up.

  • Page 6: Specifications

    +Windows Vista®, Windows® 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Chrome OS, Mac OS X v10.8 and higher Online updated compatibility list URL: www.sandisk.com/support/ixpandv2compatibility Specifications  Interface: Lightning and USB 3.0 connectors (one connector used at a time)  Operational Temperature: 0-35° C functional ...

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Connect the iXpand Flash Drive into your iPhone or iPad as shown in the figure below. Keep holding the USB side of the iXpand Flash drive away from the back of the device while you are inserting the Lightning connector into the iPhone or iPad.
  • Page 8 Installing the app When you’ve connected the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad, you’ll be prompted to install the companion iXpand Drive app. 1. On the screen, select “App Store”. 2. Install the “iXpand Drive” app from the App Store.

  • Page 9: App Overview

    Applications App overview iXpand Drive app is the companion to your iXpand Flash Drive. It has a very simple Home screen, yet allows you to quickly access main tasks from always present action items or delve deeper into more features through a set of quick action cards. These cards allow you to do different tasks from the home screen.
  • Page 10 To access the quick action cards, press on the current one, or swipe through (left to right). There are three possible actions you can take on the quick action cards. 1. To dismiss a card, swipe up on the card. 2.

  • Page 11: Taking Photos And Videos

    Flash Drive. Taking Photos and Videos Using the iXpand Drive App to take Photos and Videos will save the Photos or Videos directly on to your Drive to save space on your iPhone or iPad.
  • Page 12 2. Snap your Photo. Your Photos will be stored directly onto the iXpand Flash Drive. 3. Take a Video. Your Videos will be stored directly onto the iXpand Flash Drive.

  • Page 13: Backup And Restore Files

    Click on the “Back Up and Restore” option from the Home Screen. You will be presented with a screen with the following options: 1. Back up & Restore Photo Library to the iXpand Flash Drive 2. Backup your photos from Social Media accounts to the iXpand Flash Drive 3. Back up & Restore Contacts...
  • Page 14 Backing Up or Restore your Camera Library You can back up your camera library to the iXpand Flash Drive by setting up auto- back up or manually back up as needed. Turn on Automatic Backup by sliding the switch. This option will also appear during the initial set up screens shown when you first connect your Drive.
  • Page 15 Restoring Photos to your Camera Library The iXpand Flash Drive can be used to copy photos to a new iPhone. To Restore Photos from the iXpand Flash Drive to the iPhone or iPad, choose the Restore option.
  • Page 16 The iXpand Flash Drive can be used to backup your photos uploaded to popular social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram. To backup these photos: 1. Connect the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad, and open the iXpand Drive App.
  • Page 17 5. The iXpand Drive App will find all the photos stored on the social media account and ask to back them up. 6. Once you have connected a social media account, you can easily back it by clicking the backup icon as shown in the figure below.
  • Page 18 Back Up and Restore Contacts Create a backup contact file and restore it when needed. This is particularly valuable when moving to a new iPhone or iPad. Backup Select Backup and restore > Backup and restore contacts > Back up Select the contacts to back up by clicking the dot next to it Select Archive contacts at the bottom of the screen Restore...

  • Page 19: File Management

    1. Connect the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad. 2. Select the Copy Files option from the Home screen 3. Choose to copy photos from your iPhone to the iXpand Flash Drive or to Get Files from your iXpand Flash Drive and copy them to your iPhone...
  • Page 20 4. Select the photos to choose from the iPhone or iPad. 5. Press Copy to iXpand Flash Drive 6. Select your Destination Folder from the list of folders on the iXpand Flash Drive 7. The selected files will be saved to your iXpand Flash Drive.
  • Page 21 4. The selected files will be saved to your iPhone or iPad. Only Photos and Videos will be copied to your Camera roll on the iPhone or iPad. Other files copied to App Storage are only accessible using the iXpand Drive app. Copy files between PC and drive To Copy files between your iXpand Flash Drive and computer simply plug the iXpand Flash Drive into your computer’s USB port.
  • Page 22 Copy files between Mac computer and drive To Copy content between your iXpand Flash Drive and Mac computer: 1. Plug your iXpand Flash Drive into your Mac computer’s USB port. 2. Drag and drop music, videos, photos, and documents between your Mac computer and the iXpand Flash Drive window.
  • Page 23 2. Choose “View Files” from the Home screen 3. Press and choose the files you’d like to delete from Drive. You can choose one or many files. 4. Press at the bottom of the screen. 5. A progress bar will appear to show the deletion progress. You can swipe left on a file icon in list view and choose “delete”...
  • Page 24 2. You will see a search box appear at the top. Enter the file name you would like to find. 3. You will see search results appear for any matching files. Viewing files on the iXpand Drive or iPhone or iPad 1. Choose View Files from the Home screen of the App.
  • Page 25 2. Choose to view files that exist on the iXpand Flash Drive or on the iPhone or iPad from the slider bar at the top of the screen When “iXpand” is selected, only those files contained on the drive will be shown.
  • Page 26 Supported file formats for photos BMP, TIF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, GIF, XBM, ICO, TGA View Photos 1. Plug the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad. 2. Choose the “View Files” option from the Home Screen. 3. Choose the Photo icon 4.
  • Page 27 6. You can change the default layout to Grid or List view by selecting the Layout option 7. You can also change the Sort Order and Sort By methods through the layout menu. Slideshow 1. Browse to the folder containing your photos. 2.
  • Page 28 Unsupported file formats AC3, DTS(Dolby) Playback 1. Connect the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad. 2. Choose the “View Files” option from the Home Screen. 3. Choose the Video icon 4. Tap the video you want to play.
  • Page 29 If the music file has this denotation, then it is located in your iTunes library on the iPhone or iPad. Playback 1. Connect the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad. 2. Choose the “View Files” option from the Home Screen. 3. Choose the Music icon 4.
  • Page 30 6. Tap the song you want to play. 7. You can play the other songs in the same folder by swiping left or right. Playback supports music purchased from iTunes. Please remember that iTunes is for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. DRM-protected content is not supported.
  • Page 31 Creating a playlist 1. Select the Playlist item from the Music Menu. 2. The list of playlists will appear. 3. To Create a playlist, Select the New Playlist “+” icon 4. Name your Playlist. 5. Add songs to the playlist by touching the name of the song. 6.
  • Page 32 Once the security is enabled, a folder called “SanDiskSecureAccess Vault” (along with a SanDisk SecureAccess Vault Settings folder) would be created in the drive. Do not delete SanDiskSecureAccess Vault Settings folder, if you want to use security feature.
  • Page 33 Press thelock icon at the bottom of the screen. All secured files are moved to SanDiskSecureAccess Vault folder. Access secured files (through iXpand Drive) on Mac computer On your mac, download SanDisk SecureAccess software from downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/SanDiskSecureAccessV3_mac.zip Copy the file SanDiskSecureAccessV3_mac to the iXpand Flash Drive.
  • Page 34 Enter the password you used to protect files on iXpand Flash Drive using iXpand Drive app and select OK Read the guidelines and click “Next”.
  • Page 35 Access locked files or lock additional files using the below interface. To access the secured files on Windows based systems, download SanDisk SecureAccess software...
  • Page 36 Sharing You can share files from your iXpand Flash Drive in many ways including Facebook and Instagram from within the app. How to share 1. Connect the iXpand Flash Drive to your iPhone or iPad.
  • Page 37 3. Select “SanDisk iXpand Drive” 4. Optional: Open a new Folder...
  • Page 38 5. Selected contents will be copied to the folder...

  • Page 39: Device Settings

    About the device  About 1. Go to Menu 2. Under the About section, you can see a. Current app version b. Drive firmware version c. Device ID of the drive d. SanDisk Privacy Statement e. Legal terms and conditions...

  • Page 40: Device Firmware Update

    Device Firmware Update SanDisk rolls out regular app updates to constantly improve the user experience. When a firmware update is available and the drive is connected to an iPhone or iPad, you will see a prompt in the app. Hit OK to update the app.

  • Page 41: Troubleshooting And Support

    The support page for iXpand Flash Drive is available at: www.sandisk.com/support/ixpandflashdrive SanDisk is a trademark of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates, registered in the United States and other countries. iXpand and SanDisk SecureAccess are trademarks Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates. iPad, iPad mini, iPod and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc.
  • Page 42 IC: ICES-3 (B)/NMB-3(B) KCC: MSIP-REM-TAD-SDIX30 BSM: D32197 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 951 SanDisk Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is the seller of record and licensee in the Americas of SanDisk® products. ©2016 Western Digital Corporation. All rights reserved...

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