How to connect a pendrive to your mobile |

Surely you have asked yourself a thousand times: How do I connect a pendrive to my mobile? Well, just as you use an external USB on your computer to save photos, videos and files, freeing up space, you can also do it on your mobile. If you don’t know how to do it, today we bring you all the details!

Once you finish this article, you will be able to have more room in the smartphone, or carry movies and files on the USB, which you can open and watch on your mobile. Let’s start!

1. It is necessary that your Android mobile is compatible with OTG

Look at the charging port on your phone. Normally it will be a micro-USB, or a USB Type C if your mobile is modern and mid-high range. That charging port also serves to connect a pendrive, but it has to be a USB OTG port.

Those acronyms mean USB On The Go and with it you can read and write on pendrives like a traditional computer does.

If your mobile phone is minimally modern, it will have a USB OTG port. These protocols were already included in Android 3.2.6 and it is very likely that you will meet this requirement.

However, you can download for free and check if your Android phone has a USB OTG port.

If you have it, a normal pendrive won’t fit there, so you need the following. Aim!

2. A micro-USB (or USB Type C) to USB adapter

It is an adapter cable that, on the one hand, has a male connection to the charging port of your mobile phone. The specific type will depend on whether you have a micro-USB or USB type C port. On the other hand, it has a traditional USB female connector, or USB type A.

Look at the photo above. In this case it is a micro-USB to USB adapter. These cables are cheap and You can find them at any electronics store.Amazon or even everything for 1 euro.

With this, we only have one more thing left. Here it comes.

3. A file manager app on your phone

Android allows direct management of files, both those on the phone and the external devices that you connect to it. In this case, from the pendrive.

It is very possible that you already have an application of this type, because Samsung or Xiaomi brand phones, for example, include one.

If this is not the case, or if they do not convince you (the applications that come by default are very basic or not very intuitive, to be honest), you can install a file manager from the play store. There are many options, they all do similar things and, of the three that we are going to give you, it is a question of which one you like the most or which one is easiest.

We recommend File Manager, which you can download for free, ES File Explorer, which is a classic and you can download, or CX File Explorer, which you can download.

These applications will allow us to access the folders on both the phone and the pendrive that we are going to connect.. And what is more important, we can copy files from one device to another, open what we have on the USB, delete, etc., just like when we are in front of the computer screen.

And that’s it, if we have the pendrive, the adapter and the file management application We just have to connect the cable to the mobile phone and insert the pendrive into the corresponding end.

We open the file management application and our USB will appear there, which we can easily manage.

As you can see, on Android it is super simple. But what if you have an iPhone or iPad?

How to connect a pendrive to an iPhone or iPad

Apple doesn’t let you directly access the files and folders on your iPhone or iPad. It is a closed system and that means you cannot use the previous methods.

But No Drama, we bring you solutions to connect a pendrive to an iPhone. Typically, this is special pendrives that connect to the lightning port, or special adapters from the iPhone’s lightning port to normal USB.

What’s the trick? You have to use a branded application that sells you the device, installs it on your iPhone and lets you manage the pendrive.

That means that many of these applications let you open whatever is on the USB, or transfer images or videos from one side to the other, but only that. You will not be able to do direct and complete file management between iPhone and USB, only what each application allows.

Examples of these solutions are the , or the . As you will see, they are not too cheap.

Now you know how to connect a pendrive to your mobile, free up space or carry everything you need in your pocket.