{"id":214097,"date":"2026-02-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/4-things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:35:08","slug":"4-things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/4-things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/","title":{"rendered":"4 things you can do with your iPhone&#8217;s USB port (besides charging)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/\">4 things you can do with your iPhone&#8217;s USB port (besides charging)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Apple finally switched the iPhone to USB-C, I was very excited for the possibilities that the more universal port would bring. It\u2019s actually so much more versatile than I ever thought\u2014here are four things that you can do with your iPhone\u2019s USB-C port that you might not have known about.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"connect-external-ssds\">\n                        Connect external SSDs<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"256gb-just-isn-rsquo-t-enough-storage\">\n            256GB just isn\u2019t enough storage<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Patrick Campanale \/ How-To Geek<\/p>\n<p> Whether you have a 256GB iPhone or a 2TB iPhone, there are definitely times when you can run out of storage. Recording Apple\u2019s ProRes Log format takes up 6GB per minute of recording at 4K 30 FPS, or over 10GB per minute at 4K 60 FPS. In fact, Apple straight up won\u2019t let you record to internal storage with 4K 60 FPS ProRes Log.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can you capture this much footage (or just get extra storage)? Simply plug in a USB-C external SSD. You can use flash drives or external SSDs, actually, and I\u2019ve used both with my iPhone 17 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>I have the PNY Duo Link V3, and it has both a USB-A and USB-C port, and my Crucial X10 is also USB-C. Both work flawlessly with my iPhone and easily let me double or quadruple my device\u2019s storage\u2014all without having to pay the Apple storage upgrade tax.<\/p>\n<p>                 &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 things you can do with your iPhone&#8217;s USB port (besides charging) https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/things-you-can-do-with-your-iphones-usb-port-besides-charging\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/08\/a7308486.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-214097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214099,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214097\/revisions\/214099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}