In the event that you do not have a computer at your disposal and that you are used to accumulating a large amount of data, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy S22, you must quickly reach saturation of its internal memory. In recent years, brands have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. However, sending data without a computer can be complex. You may have heard of a fast enough technique, using a USB flash drive.
We will precisely, in this tutorial, show you how to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S22? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages you will benefit from performing this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will learn all the steps to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S22.
Why connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S22?
Before explaining the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy S22, we will come back to the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, but 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 suddenly have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone is more than reasonable, except that with a 50 Mpx photo sensor that records videos 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 S22 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy S22 by transferring content to it. In addition, you can also directly download files that a friend has sent to you, for example, on a USB stick. You can also in the same way connect an external hard drive to your Samsung Galaxy S22.
How to connect a USB stick to a Samsung Galaxy S22?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this article! We will first see the technique for connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy S22 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read USB flash drive on Samsung Galaxy S22?
First thing to know, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy S22. Indeed, if you looked carefully at the curves of your device, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. This is using a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will need to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these small accessories are very easily found 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 Samsung Galaxy S22 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy S22, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Samsung Galaxy S22?
Finally, now that you have understood how the system works and that you are equipped with the right accessory, we will very simply show you how to transfer data between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy S22? Either way the process is similar. Follow the directions below to get there:
- Download a data manager if the application originally installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Connect the OTG adapter to your Samsung Galaxy S22
- 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
If ever you want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy S22, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy S22.
