Questions & Answers for Apple 30-pin to VGA Adapter

The Apple VGA Adapter is designed to connect your iPad to a monitor, TV or projector using a VGA cable. This is an older type of connection but still common on many projectors sold today. A VGA connection can only carry a video signal. Another limitation of VGA is its lack of support for HDCP - 'High Definition Copy Protection' - which prevents the playback of some movies (for example movies rented or purchased from the iTunes store) on an external display.

The Apple Digital AV Adapter allows you to connect you iPad to a monitor, TV, projector or home theatre system using an HDMI cable. HMDI carries both a video and audio signal, and supports HDCP, making it ideal for playback of rented or purchased movies from the iTunes store. This adapter also includes a 30-pin dock connector to which you can connect a USB charging cable, allowing you to charge your iPad at the same time as using the adapter.

• Answered by Chris L
• 22-Apr-2012
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (what is the difference between vga adapter and the av cable)

VGA is a legacy port to connect computers and monitors. It stands for Video Graphics Adapter (some call it Video Graphic Array) and you'll also find VGA sometimes used to describe the resolution of the output from the computer: e.g. "SuperVGA. etc."

The connector is a three-row 15-pin DE-15 connector. The 15-pin VGA connector is found on many video cards, computer monitors, and some high definition television sets. On laptop computers or other small devices, a mini-VGA port is sometimes used in place of the full-sized VGA connector.

• Answered by James T from Wake Forest
• 15-May-2012
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (What does VGA stand for?)

No, this is a VGA adapter to connect to a monitor. There is also not currently an adapter for a external drive.

• Answered by James C from Springfield
• 7-Jun-2010
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Yes, you can. You'll need to download an app like Air Sharing, Documents or QuickOffice that can view your documents.

• Answered by Emmanuel J from Cupertino
• 25-Jan-2011
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (If i have excel or word files on my mac and want to transfer and store to ipad and view them ... can it be done?)

Hi, I am not sure if anyone has answered this yet. I have an IPhone 4 and an Ipad 2 and could not stream Netflix through either, even with the adapter. I called them directly in the US and they said the adapter will only work for Ipad 4 and newer, and IPhone 4S and newer. Any older and their systems do not recognize it. It is not the answer I wanted but it at least it explained why the adapter did not work. Hope this helps.

• Answered by Derrick S from Orillia
• 11-Apr-2014
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The 30 pin-to-VGA cable ONLY carries video. However, the normal headphone jack in the iPad can be used to output sound. Just buy a normal "Male-Male" 3.5mm headphone jack cable, and plug it in to your BOSE.

• Answered by John C from Dartmouth
• 17-Jan-2013
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will the Apple 30 pin-to-VGA adapter work for sound (IPAD to BOSE) ?? The cable descr only references video movies & images.)