If you don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of data, photos, or videos on your Google Pixel 6, you can easily reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, sending your data without a computer can be complex. You have probably heard of a fairly effective solution, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Google Pixel 6? In this context, first, we will review the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to plug your USB key into your Google Pixel 6.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 6?
Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 6, we will come back to the advantages of this technique. Most of the time having storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however, with the quality of our phones' photo sensors which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos gets pretty damn awesome. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Google Pixel 6 will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Google Pixel 6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Google Pixel 6.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Google Pixel 6?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the solution for plug a USB key into a Google Pixel 6 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Google Pixel 6?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Google Pixel 6. Indeed, if you have looked a little at the curves of your smartphone, you must have noticed quite quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have to buy an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.
Finally, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Google Pixel 6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Google Pixel 6, see our article.
How to Transfer Files to USB Drive from Google Pixel 6?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Google Pixel 6? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Google Pixel 6
- Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
- Open your file manager
- Find the data you want to transfer to one of the two directories, you should see your USB key displayed in the storage locations
- Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations
If you ever want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Google Pixel 6, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 6.
