Does the iPhone X have expandable storage?

William Judd

Short answer: No, the iPhone X doesn’t have expandable storage.

Long answer: The iPhone X doesn’t have expandable storage… but you can add storage temporarily using a Lightning drive. Here’s what you need to know.

How it works

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Lightning drives are like normal USB drives, in that they have a full-size USB connector on one end, and some flash storage in the middle to keep your files, photos and videos. The interesting part is that they have a Lightning connector opposite the USB connector, so you can plug them into an iPhone easily.

Using a free iOS app, you can copy photos, videos and other files from your iPhone X to the Lightning drive, or vice versa.

Why it’s useful

You can use Lightning drives in a load of different ways. For example, you could use them to copy all of your iPhone X’s photos and videos and transfer them to your computer — and it will be way faster than doing it using iCloud, Dropbox or Google Photos.

Another idea would be to copy HD video files to the drive, so you can watch them on your iPhone during a long drive or flight. Even if you don’t have any spare space on your iPhone X, you can still play the video file directly from the drive.

There are loads of uses for these kind of drives; in the end you’re just limited by your imagination!

The best Lightning drives

One of our favourite Lightning drives is called the Leef iBridge. It’s available in a range of capacities, from a budget 32GB drive all the way up to 64, 128 and 256GB that massively expand your available storage.

You can find more information about the Leef iBridge via the product pages linked below:

PhotoFast MFi Lightning MemoriesCable Gen 3 - USB 3.0 - 32G

The PhotoFast Lightning Cable offers a similar experience in a slightly different form factor. See more below:

Wrapping up

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