Connect External Hard Drive to iPad Air or Pro
On your iPad Air 5 or 4 or iPad pro or any other iPad if you want to connect your external hard drive or ssd storage to your apple iPad Air then you can easily add an external hard drive to iPad air and use the external hard drive easily. So, lets see in detail below.
You will need a usb convertor here and which helps you convert your usb type c port to usb typeA OTG adapter or get a usb type c convertor hub which has many ports and helps you connect you any kind of adaptors and you can connect external hard drive to iPad and transfer your files like photos, or videos to your computer or MacBook or laptop and free up space on your iPad and use external hard drive on your iPad air or pro.
Below methods will help you guide and show how you connect your external hard drive or ssd to your apple iPad air or Pro or any Apple iPad Series.
Step 1: Grab your ssd or external hard drive and connect it to usb type c port convertor
Step 2: Now, Connect External hard drive to your iPad using type c Port.
Step 3: Wait for your iPad air to read your external hard drive and you need to make sure that your ssd or external hard drive format is readable on your ipad (check when you buy external hard drive) and buy supported readable format.
Step 4: Tap on My Files (Folder icon) on iPad.
Step 5: On left side menu -> you will see the connected SSD or External hard drive name.
Step 6: Tap on your external or SSD Hard drive which is connected and tap on folder or files or music or videos or documents and open it.
That’s it, this is how you connect your SSD or External hard drive to your iPad air or ipad pro and use it to transfer files from external to internal or transfer internal files to external hard drive on your iPad.
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Step 1: Connect your ssd or external hard drive to your iPad using usb type c convertor.
Step 2: Now, Open files folder on your iPad and tap on -> ON my iPad (left side menu) all your iPad files will be displayed here.
Step 3: Now, select the files that you want to copy or transfer from your iPad and tap on copy.
Step 4: Now, on left side Menu -> tap on your external hard drive or SSD Storge device name which is connected to your iPad.
Step 5: Simple tap anywhere on the blank screen -> Tap on Paste and wait for your ipad files to transfer files from your iPad internal storage to external storage.
Step 1: Open files app -> Select your External hard drive and select files that you want to transfer or copy.
Step 2: Tap on ON my iPad on -> Tap on hold on blank space and tap on paste to copy all files to your iPad.
If you are having too much internal space on your ipad and you don’t want to delete them and your iPad air is responding too slow and you need to free up internal storage of iPad then you need to connect external hard drive and then transfer internal file from your iPad Air to your external SSD Hard drive by connecting it to your ipad air or iPad pro.
Make sure that your ssd or external storage device that you have connected is in supported format and it supports iPad pro or works with ipad pro and also make sure that the cables or usb type c port converter is not faulty or damaged.
Yes! You can connect any external hard drive or SSD hard drive storage device to your iPad air or Pro and all you need to make sure is that your external ssd hard drive is supported and external hard drive should support your iPad and all ssd or external hard drive will not support or read iPad air or Pro.
Yes! You can easily transfer files from internal storage of iPad to external storage of connected SSD OR external hard drive easily.
Make sure that the contented external hard drive or ssd storage device is in supported format and supports iPad Air or Pro or else it will not read or detect connected external hard drive to your iPad air or pro.
Change connecting cables and make sure that type c converter cables are connected properly and they are not damaged and your external hard drive should support iPad air or pro.
Yes! You can connect using type c usb drivers converter or extension cables and connect external hard drive or usb drive or any ssd storage to your iPad pro or air.