How To Connect Ipad To External Storage. Your iPadiPhone can also connect wirelessly to a network share. Open the Files app on the iPhone or iPad.
Not only can you connect SD cards and thumb drives but portable hard drives and solid. Regardless of which iPad you have the process is the same. If you would like to add storage to your iPad to hold photos and video it is possible to add an external storage drive to modern iPad models using its Lightning port on all iPad 4th Gen and newer models and iPad Air iPad Air 2nd Gen and iPad Air 3rd Gen models as well as wirelessly.
Perhaps you have a portable USB drive full of movies photos.
I figured now that iPad OS supports external storage I could just plug in my external SSD via the included Lighting to USB-C cable. Connect a USB drive or an SD card Insert a USB camera adapter or an SD card reader into the charging port on iPad. Tap on the Files app on your. In this example its simply labeled Drive.