If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your OPPO Reno6, you can easily reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to integrate a micro SD port in addition. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a sufficiently effective technique, using a USB flash drive.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Reno6? To do this, first, we will review the advantages you will have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to connect your USB key to your OPPO Reno6.

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Why connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Reno6?

Before explaining the process for use a USB key directly on your OPPO Reno6, we will summarize the advantages of this solution. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the feeling that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is more than enough, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that films in 4K you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your OPPO Reno6 will be to allow you to free up memory on your OPPO Reno6 by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly retrieve files that a colleague has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your OPPO Reno6.

How to connect a USB flash drive to an OPPO Reno6?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the manipulation for connect a USB key to an OPPO Reno6 , then see learn how to transfer data from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on an OPPO Reno6?

First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your OPPO Reno6. Indeed, in the event that you have carefully analyzed the contours of your phone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you can perform this operation. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 OPPO Reno6 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to an OPPO Reno6, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB drive from OPPO Reno6?

Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer data between a USB flash drive and your OPPO Reno6? Either way, the process is similar. Follow the instructions below to do so:

  • Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone is not suitable for you
  • Plug the OTG adapter into your OPPO Reno6
  • 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 appear in the storage locations
  • Now do "Copy / Paste" or "Cut / Paste" depending on what you want to do between the two storage locations

In the event that you are looking for as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the OPPO Reno6, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: OPPO Reno6.