iPads are getting native support for USB sticks

Apple has announced that soon you’ll be able to plug thumb drives, external disk drives, and SD cards directly into your iPad. The functionality, which was announced onstage at WWDC 2019, will be particularly useful for photographs, allowing you to import photos into an app like Lightroom directly from your camera’s SD card without having to use a Siri Shortcut.
The functionality is coming with Apple’s new operating system for the iPad called iPadOS, which also includes an imp