If you don't have a computer at your disposal and you tend to accumulate a lot of data, photos, or videos on your Vivo Y16, you must quickly reach saturation of its internal storage. For some time now, brands have become accustomed to also integrating a micro SD port. Despite everything, exchanging data without a computer can be a problem. You may have heard of a fairly effective solution, via a USB key.
We are going to teach you in this article how to connect a usb flash drive to a Vivo Y16? For this, first, we will come back to the advantages that you will have to carry out this action, then, the practical part, in which you will see all the steps to plug your USB drive into your Vivo Y16.
What is the point of connecting a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y16?
Before revealing the process for use a USB key directly on your Vivo Y16, we will review the advantages of this operation. In general, taking advantage of storage on a phone is essential, especially since we don't really realize it, however with the quality of the photo sensors of our smartphones which are constantly improving, the weight of photos and videos becomes very therefore. We therefore 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 you will quickly reach the limits of your memory.
One of the first advantages of using a USB key directly on your Vivo Y16 will be to allow you to free up memory on your Vivo Y16 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 Vivo Y16.
How to connect a USB flash drive to a Vivo Y16?
Now is the time to move on to the practical part of this tutorial! We will first see the procedure for connect a USB key to a Vivo Y16 , then see show how to transfer data from one to the other.
How to read a USB flash drive on a Vivo Y16?
First thing to know, you are going to need an adapter to connect your USB key to your Vivo Y16. Indeed, in the event that you have looked a little at the curves of your device, you must have quickly realized that there was no USB socket on it. It is with a technology called OTG that you can achieve your ends. You will have to get an adapter or an OTG cable, these little accessories are simply available 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 obtained to the micro or nano USB socket of your Vivo Y16 and it will turn into a USB socket. If you want connect an OTG cable to a Vivo Y16, see our article.
How to transfer files to USB drive from Vivo Y16?
Finally, now that you understand 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 flash drive and your Vivo Y16? Either way, the process is the same. Follow the directions below to achieve this:
- Download a data manager in the event that the application originally installed on your phone is not suitable for you
- Plug the OTG adapter into your Vivo Y16
- 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 you ever want as many tutorials as possible to become a master of the Vivo Y16, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Live Y16.
