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Use my iPhone as a media server to 16GB iPad?

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  • 21-11-2019 8:43pm
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    theguzman
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    I have an older iPad Air 16GB which is now almost 6 years old, it works perfect for what I use it for. I use it primarily watching TV for long distance commutes, trains and planes. Streaming is not an option on a train due to the pathetic data coverage and obviously not on a plane. Since it has just 2GB of free space left I have to stream to the iPad.

    I currently use an older Samsung Android phone with Bubble UPnP

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft.android.bubbleupnp&hl=en_IE

    I can throw all my .mkv vids onto the memory card and the samsung will stream across by creating a hotspot to the iPad. I then watch them on VLC player on the iPad.

    However this is extremely haphazard and yesterday whilst on the train to Dublin I had to restart the android phone and iPad around 3 times as it is buggy as hell.

    I have an iPhone XS 256GB and I'd prefer to just upload the media files to it and use it for the streaming if possible. I always have the phone on charge anyway so it won't effect battery life.

    Any apps or what would you recommend, I'm not going to buy a new iPad for what is only a few times per month usage.


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