If you do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a large number of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy A23, you can easily reach saturation of the internal memory of the latter. For some time now, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, transferring files without a computer can be complex. You've probably heard of a fairly quick solution, using a USB key.
We are going to show you in this article how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A23? For this, to start, we are going to review the advantages that you are going to have to perform this action, then, the practical part, in which you are going to learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A23.
Why connect a USB flash drive to a Samsung Galaxy A23?
Before showing you the technique for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy A23, we will review the advantages of this operation. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially when we don't really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our mobile phones which are constantly improving, the weight of the photos and videos becomes very substantial. We suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a phone is huge, 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 Samsung Galaxy A23 will be to allow you to free memory on your Samsung Galaxy A23 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly recover files that a friend has put on a USB key, for example. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy A23.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy A23?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this guide! We will first see the method for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy A23 , then see explain how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Samsung Galaxy A23?
First things to understand, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy A23. Indeed, if you have carefully analyzed the contours of your smartphone, you must have noticed fairly quickly that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to achieve your ends. 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.
To finish, you will have to connect the adapter or the cable that you have bought to the micro or nano USB socket of your Samsung Galaxy A23 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy A23, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB flash drive from Samsung Galaxy A23?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will quickly explain how to transfer files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy A23? Either way, the process is similar. Use the following guidelines to do so:
- Download a file manager if the app originally installed on your phone is not suitable for you
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy A23
- 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 are looking for a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy A23, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy A23.
