How to connect a USB storage flash drive to your iPad Pro 2021 M1 using a USB C to USB adapter 

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Found this by just browsing and I wasn't expecting a cheery Liverpool accent to greet me! Sláinte mate, great vid v helpful

Your clear speech and explanation is excellent. Thanks.

Thank you for a clear answer to a specific question.

I wasn't able to access my other files externally until I saw this video. You've taught me something since I'm learning something new each day. Can't thank you enough and this really helped me out!

Thank you my friend. From an old Veteran living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado!!!

Wow, so simple. I recently bought a used, 2nd gen iPad to function as a dedicated music reader device. I was all set to buy an "iPad external drive" when it occurred to me to research if I could use the many USB1 thum1b drives I have lying about. I already owned an adapter for my foot pedal for turning pages so I connected as you showed and VOILA! Thank you.

Great presentation. When I plug mine in the iPad mini it says that I don’t have enough power. Any ideas what the problem might be? Thank in advance

life saver! I was looking how to access the ext... I had to search under file... thanks so much! :)

I just got a new iPad Pro 12.9 ( 2021) I wanted to buy a flash drive of old radio shows ( Perry mason ) to listen to on my flight to UK 🇬🇧. I had no idea how to approach this ! Thank you for a easy to explain video bc I’m super stupid about tech stuff! Your accent was a huge plus , too! Could listen to you all day ! Anyhoo!

Hi, nice video, this might sound like a silly question, but does the cable creation device work on the ipad Pro M2 chip?

Thank you so much for this! My computer is being fixed and couldn’t figure for the life of me how to upload my video from my iPad. This will save me this week 🙏🏻

your clear speech and explanation is excellent

Love Scousers. Keep it rolling top dude.

I have an Apple iPad Pro 12.9" M1 128GB Silver 5th Gen. I tried several USB C adaptors, including the one mentioned in the video ALL WITHOUT SUCCESS. After hours of googling and failing my iPad offered an OS upgrade. Since I was out of options I went for the upgrade. You guessed it, after the upgrade all three adaptors work fine. The OS version I have now is iPadOS 16.6. The adaptors that now all work for me are: Apple USB-C to USB Adapter (most expensive) USB C Male to USB A Femle Adapter 0.15m,CableCreation USB3.1 USB A Female to USB C Adapter OTG 5Gbps Data for MacBook Pro Air XPS 13 15 S21 S20 S10 etc (the one in the video, mid priced) Anker USB-C to USB 3.1 Adapter, Converts USB-C Female into USB-A Female, Uses USB OTG Technology, Compatible with Samsung Galaxy Note 8, S8 S8+ S9, iPad Pro 2018, Nexus 6P 5X, LG V20 G5 and more (Cheapest) All adaptors are are good quality and off Amazon, I'm keeping the Anker. Cheers.

Thanks for that. I bought a complete USB-C Hub to connect all sorts of media. It’s the same one advertised in the Apple Shop but, buy externally and you can buy it for 25% of the price Apple want. You read that right. Buy external of Apple and SAVE 75% on Apple price for exactly the same brand and item they are selling. Good video David with your happy smiling face and Liverpool accent. Reminds me of home. I now live in Thailand.

Thank you for such a clear answer, even a numpty like me can understand!

Thank you for this video. Will this work with an old Seagate expansion drive on my iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)? Edit: I’m delighted to say, I ordered this and it works with my old Portable Seagate Expansion Drive. I’m enjoying looking back over so many years.

Thx for making it short and sweet it was very helpful so I gave you a 👍

This was helpful, but still not what I needed😔 I’ve been trying to figure out how to play my PowerPoint slide from my iPad, and although I was able to attach my thumb drive using an external plug, it’s not displaying the PowerPoint the way I need. What a bummer. But thank you for this refreshing video😉

Is there any safely remove feature on ipad like in windows ? I am concerned about my pendrive damaged.

Pro Tip: You can open two File instances simultaneously and just drag files from one to another.

Great job in explaining everything.

Thanks for your clear and to the point tutorial vids.Your accent is magic Did you ever do a vid on attaching a usb hub to iPad pro 11? Would value your opinion on brands /models.Thankyou

Thank you so Munch 👍How can l play video files from usb flash drive on iPad pro?

Very informative and to the point!!

Can you play directly from the USB drive or you need to transfer the file to the iPad first?

Is it true that you have to FORMAT the flash drive or portable harddrive on mac first to be able to work on ipad?

A very helpful video. Thanks.

Thank u very much bestie ily

Can you transfer from iPad to external hard drive using this as well ??

Your vedeo is awesome and very informative. Thanks

Thank you sir, But please tell me if I can connect HDD Hard drive also to my Samsung galaxy S Plus Tablet ,or only SSD Hard drives ? I ask because HDD and is mechanical with moving parts ,and needs more power !

Thanks for sharing to use USB

Can the iPad pro play pretty much every video file format on a USB stick? My Samsung galaxy tab s6 is giving me non stop issues and I am on the verge of tossing it for an iPad pro. Thank you so much for the straight to the point great video!

very useful thankyou

would it be possible to connect the USB as well as charge the iPad at the same time?

David, like the presentation. However, when you have your JPEG “On My iPad” is there a way to get the JEPEG into your photo app?

Thank you for the information but my question is can I download from a website on the Ipad to the usb drive. I want to be able to save files to the flash drive and not my Ipad itself.

My neighbour purchased the newest iPad Pro 12.9 6th generation and an official Apple USB to USB-C adapter in order to transfer data from USB-stick. On the physical side the USB Stick fits into adapter, and the adapter fits into IPad, however nothing shows up on the IPad at all. No popup, in Files application nothing appears etc. I even tried it with an externally powered USB Hub (with power available) and plugged USB stick into that one and the HUB into the adapter but nothing changed. The description of that USB to USB-C adapter lacks any mentioning of USB sticks, it just mentions this adapter could be used to connect iPad to Mac. Formerly for Lightning based iPads there were some special Camera adapters via USB that could also be used for USB sticks according some Videos here. But there seems to be no such thing anymore for USB-C based iPads.

Hi David! I would like to transfer pictures from a USB flash drive to the picture folder on the ipad pro 12.9. Will that work and how? Thank you so much!

Can we use this for internet connect

I’m hoping they do a lot of improvement on the files system. I use an Anker hub with a PD input port and I can charge it while I’m moving stuff. It has two USB ports and an SD and micro SD slot. This works on the iPhone also with the iPhone camera adapter and you can power it as well. Both options will work with an HDD or SSD as long as you have the PD plugged in.

Will this work on iPad Air

Thankyou so much

Hi David are you able to transfer Apple Music without iTunes from an iPad Pro to a usb drive and or external drive to play in a car?

How do I move from the I pad to a jump drive from my ipad

looks simple i'll try it thanks

Do they have adapter for lightning port

Thanks

Will it work with a non-pro iPad? Thanks

Hi David, love your videos… We have an IPad Pro, and can not figure out how to get a card reader to work…

I must agree, the file management is crap. Nice little device. Cheers!

Will one of these cables be ok for my iPad Pro 12inch 2020? Thanks.

Hi..David! I can connect my kingston flash drive with my ipad pro, in my ipad i can see it show Kingston drive, but why i can't see anything from my drive? Actually, there are a lot of MP3 files in my Kingston flash drive. Any special setting should i done to my ipad pro?

It says only read, how to transfer data to drive from ipad?

Hi brother can how can I charge my ipad battery while using a hard drive?

Where do I get file manager from, is it an app that I have to download from the App Store? That’s where I am at now please let me know what I need to download I have a little bit older iPad 12.9 but it does have the little mini USB port

Ty very much………

Thank you, a real help! ;)

Hello! How do i disconnect the flash drive? :(

Excuse me . I have a question . Can the adapter connect to a usb keyboard , mouse ?

Does the format need to be exfat? or something else? All of my USBs are currently NTFS so not sure if it will need reformatting when i get the iPad

Is other way round data transfer is possible? From iPad to External drive..

Thanks a lot!!!!!

I have been having trouble with my iPad Pro 12.9 not reading my flash drives/external hard drives. Pictures, videos and some documents show read only. I’ve formatted the flash drives to exFat. Do I need a specific flash drive or external hard drive. I have the apple adapter to connect these. When I first got the iPad I plugged in an external hard drive (WD) and it played a video with no issues. The next time I tried it would not work just “read only”. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Ipads support otg?

Can I put my e books on a flash drive from ipad

Thank You

Can we connect seagate hard disk with ipad pro 2021…….???

How connect hardrive using apple iPad

And how I can show the images in the gallery app ? It doesn't show...

What about iPad 9 generation with thunderbolt?

how can I move my files if my USB says "read only"? how to fix it please

Newer flash drives usually comes with both USBC and USBA. I made all my old flash drives go retired.

It's okay to use a usbc to usb female non-Apple brand with the Ipad? I always here that you gotta use Apple products because of this Thunderbolt stuff.

How do rename a flash drive?

my usb cant connect after updrade ios 16

I did not have a section in my files called untitled. I couldn’t find the flash drive.😢😢😢

What is the name of that game?

My ipad pro wont connect with any dongle, wire, adapter at all. Im fed up, now i have to buy a laptop to use my 10k photos. Grrrr

Very informative. Thanks for sharing, Lord-Jesus-Christ dot

External USB crippled for a reason to sell folks bigger internal storage.

I really wish everyone would stop talking about Pro version and make a video on the non-Pro version.

I hope Ipad replaces Macbook just joking at least give us a finder, a real app, and real browser extensions support with the download time. Well maybe to only the M1 but that would be very unfair to all the other Pro

TIM from Canada to confusing you would think with Apple any iPad there would be a way to play. USB drive.. but of course Apple they don’t do this..

one think I don't like about ipad than laptop is they don't have keyboard and usb drive

Apple will not let me copy, or transfer video clips and photos from my iPad Pro hard drive to a USB stick; They keep deleting them; supposedly because they are not mine to keep on a flash drive, in the 1st place. Wednesday 29th March 2023. U.K. Southampton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Definitely a scouser

That didn’t help

Can I use the same for 9th gen?

Thanks👍

Thank you