In the event that you do not have a pc at your disposal and that you tend to accumulate a large amount of files, photos, or videos on your Huawei Y9s, you can quickly become saturated with the internal memory of the latter. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to integrating a micro SD port as well. However, transferring data without a computer can be problematic. You have probably heard of a fairly effective technique, through a USB key.

We will precisely, in this tutorial, teach you how to connect a usb stick to a Huawei Y9s? In this context, first of all, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to perform this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps for connect your USB key to your Huawei Y9s.

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What is the point of connecting a USB key to a Huawei Y9s?

Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Huawei Y9s, we will review the advantages of this procedure. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we do not really realize it, but with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes damn imposing. So we 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, they can quickly be saturated.

One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Huawei Y9s will be to give you the possibility of free memory on your Huawei Y9s by uploading content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend sent you, for example, to a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Huawei Y9s.

How to connect a USB stick to a Huawei Y9s?

Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Huawei Y9s , then see learn how to transfer files from one to the other.

How to read a USB flash drive on a Huawei Y9s?

First things to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Huawei Y9s. In fact, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your smartphone, you must have quickly noticed that there was no USB socket on it. This is thanks to a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are simply for a few euros on the internet or in specialized stores.

To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have recovered to the micro or nano USB socket of your Huawei Y9s and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Huawei Y9s, see our article.

How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Huawei Y9s?

Finally, now that you have integrated how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly teach you how to transfer files between a USB key and your Huawei Y9s? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the following guidelines to get there:

  • Download a file manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone does not meet your expectations
  • Connect the OTG adapter to your Huawei Y9s
  • Connect a USB key or an external hard drive
  • Open your file manager
  • Find the files 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 Huawei Y9s, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Huawei Y9s.