If you don't have a PC at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Xiaomi 11, you can easily reach saturation of the latter's internal memory. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, exchanging data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a quick enough solution, using a USB flash drive.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a usb key to a Xiaomi 11? To do this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to perform this manipulation, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to plug your USB key into your Xiaomi 11.
Why connect a USB stick to a Xiaomi 11?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Xiaomi 11, we will come back to the advantages of this solution. Generally benefiting from storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very substantial. We therefore naively have the impression 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 Xiaomi 11 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Xiaomi 11 by uploading content to it. In addition, you will also be able to directly download files that a colleague has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Xiaomi 11.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Xiaomi 11?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Xiaomi 11 , then see explain how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Xiaomi 11?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Xiaomi 11. Indeed, in the event that you have analyzed the curves of your device a little, you must have noticed fairly quickly that it there was no USB port on it. It is with 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 purchased to the micro or nano USB socket of your Xiaomi 11 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable on a Xiaomi 11, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Xiaomi 11?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply explain to you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Xiaomi 11? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the native application of your phone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Xiaomi 11
- 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
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