This is exactly what I ended up doing. Found a good sale on an 11" M2 2TB iPad Pro and it has worked perfectly for this purpose.
Bonus: no issues with 6K All-I playback.
I have an Mavic 4 Creator and an iPad Pro. The drone can be connected directly. I am already using beta iOS26 and it‘s very easy and fast enough to copy the files directly to the iCloud.
You want to create a link to a DJI-Folder, makes it easier...
The current Pro is 40Gbps USB4 / TB3; the Air and most recent Mini are 10Gbps USB3. If the Internal Storage can be seen in the iPad Files app, offloading at 700-800MB/s should be possible.
Can you plug the drone directly into the ipad and transfer at similar speeds to a computer offload? I'm getting ~750MB/s on my computer and would imagine any ipad with 10Gbps USB could achieve a similar speed. This would offload ~20 minutes of...
Searching for options to offload data from the Mavic 4 Creator SSD while in the field / mid-shoot. A laptop wouldn't be practical most of the time. Anyone have a good workflow from the Mavic 3 Cine or current Mavic 4 Creator?
Potential solutions...