If you ever do not have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of files, photos, or videos on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, you must quickly reach saturation of the internal storage of the latter. In recent years, manufacturers have tended to also integrate a micro SD port. Despite everything, sending your data without a computer can be a problem. You've probably heard of a fairly quick technique, using a USB key.
We will precisely, in this article, teach you how to connect a usb key to a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3? To do this, first, we will review the advantages that you will have to accomplish this technique, then, the practical part, in which you will discover all the steps to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3.
What will connecting a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 allow?
Before showing you the procedure for use a USB key directly on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, we will review the advantages of this technique. Most of the time taking advantage of storage on a smartphone is essential, especially when we do not really realize it, however, with the quality of the photo sensors of our phones which are constantly improving, the volume of photos and videos becomes very consequent. We therefore naively have the impression that having 64GB or 128GB on a smartphone 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 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 will be to give you the possibility of free up memory on your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 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 Z Fold3.
How to connect a USB key to a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3?
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 Z Fold3 , then see show how to transfer files from one to the other.
How to read a USB drive on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3?
First thing to understand, you will need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3. Indeed, if you ever looked carefully at the contours of your phone, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you will be able to perform this operation. You will have 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 Z Fold3 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB from Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3?
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 files between a USB key and your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3? Either way, the process is the same. Apply the instructions below to achieve this:
- Download a file manager if the original application installed on your smartphone does not meet your expectations
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3
- 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 appear 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 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3.
