WD My Passport Wireless was superseded in 2016 by the release. Whether you have a WD My Passport Wireless Pro or are thinking of getting one it is likely you will want to access the files uploaded to it via your iPad or iPhone and there isn’t much out there telling you how. In this article ‘My Passport Wireless, iPad Where to Start and Need to Knows” I see if I can help by giving you some pointers.

Firstly, if you haven’t configured the WD My Passport Wireless Pro yet, it’s a good ideal to download and read the latest manual. The install and setup though not complicated is involved and for the WD My Passport Wireless Pro it is worth following the manual rather than relying on your intuition. Plus the Western Digital YouTube videos describing the installation process on a Mac were done and dated 2014 and do not cover the latest software update that came through in January 2018. To help here is a link to the. Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • Accessing My Passport Wireless from Your iPad Where to start Let me tell you how to install what your gonna need on your iPad or iPhone to access the My Passport Wireless Pro. You are going to need the WD My Cloud Mobile App installed on your iPad and iPhone. How to install the My Cloud Mobile App on IOS 6 Steps Western Digital’s My Cloud Mobile app is the software used on iPads or iPhones to access and connect to a range of their storage devices including the My Passport Wireless Pro.

• Click onto the Apple app store on your iPad or iPhone. Enter Password for My Passport Wireless Need to Knows About using Files from My Passport Wireless on Your iPad or iPhone Actually, this more accurately relates to using files you have uploaded to the from your Mac. Outlook for mac 16 enable favorites folder. • You will have difficulty playing protected movies or music. This specifically relates to music and movies you have paid for on iTunes and watch on your Mac. Lego games for mac. DRM protected movies and music won’t play through either the Twonky Media DNLA server or the Plex Media server onto your iPad or iPhone. And this is because Apple specifically protected those files and prevented their play as of IOS 8 and only your authorized Apple devices can play those files. The Apple method of getting those files onto your authorized devices is via iTunes or Airplay.

You select and copy/sync those files to your devices when your device is connected either by cable or via Wi-Fi. And then only if it is your authorized device on iTunes. Which brings me to my second point. • iTunes will not at as a server, serving content via Wi-Fi. There is no method of doing this. You can though take a copy of your full iTunes directory and upload it up onto the WD My Passport Wireless Pro while the Wireless Pro is physically connected to your Mac. Then on your iPad or iPhone you can navigate to that directory find the file you want to play and click on it.

There is still the issue of DRM protected files which will likely not play but it is worth a try. Non DRM protected files will be fine and play through Twonky or Plex. • The file format that you want to play, view or listen to must be in a format that your iPad or iPhone is able to view – in the case of photos, play – in the case of videos or music. Neither the Twonky or Plex Media servers are sufficiently powerful to do any on the fly encoding.