SanDisk Memory Zone 4+

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.

I don’t know why they are fixing something that isn’t broken! The old app is going to stop working march 2025 but it is a lot better than the new version. The old version showed the amount of items to download and showed them downloading in real time so I knew how long it would take. The new app just bounces around from 338 hours to 17 minutes and doesn’t actually show anything. The photo files take forever to load and so far I’ve never been able to pull up my recent photos when I’ve put the drive back into my phone (iPhone 14 pro) and opened the app. I also loved that the old app displayed the amount of storage space in my phone versus on the drive right on the front page. I can’t find that information anywhere in the new app. I got my kids san disk drives for Christmas so they can clean off their phones, but I hate the new app so much, I am going to return the drives and get ones that have a better app. Why change something that works well and is user friendly to something that doesn’t and isn’t?

Downloaded this one because the iXpand app said this was going to be its replacement. First attempt at a backup up looked like it was going to take longer than the battery life of my phone at the time so I stopped it after a half hour or so. Second attempt? Well, this app has an estimated time until complete. It takes quite a few minutes for it to settle to a steady countdown. It got down to an hour and a half like my first attempt so I let it run. About a half hour later? It said 3 hours 45 minutes and counting up? 10% done? So, yes, I stopped it again.
Third attempt. Back down to the 1-1/2 hour mark, let it run. Looked like it was working. Was getting over 30% then somewhere past the 30-45 minute mark? It quit said it lost connection or something.
A lot of wasted time.
Wasted a couple more hours. 4th attempt: was 76% when last looked before the failed pop up. At least i saw it finally start dropping from 1 hour 45 minutes or so left to about 30 minutes or so.
Only got about 12-13GB to put on the 64GB drive.