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Best flash drives for backing up your iPhone in 2024: USB-C, Lightning and every other storage connection you might need

Mar, 26 2024

Sure, the best iPhones have more and more storage capacity squeezed into their SSDs. But with higher quality photos, high resolution video capture, and advanced apps and games demanding more and more iPhone storage space, you can quickly fill up even the largest of iPhones.

While backing up your iPhone to an iCloud account is always advisable, it can prove costly for larger devices and image libraries. And should that account ever become compromised, you may lose out on even your cloud-stored backups. So a local backup to physical media is always a recommended secondary security step — and often the cheapest way to make sure your data is stored off-device somewhere you can trust.

The best flash drives for iPhone offer large capacities for backing up your most important files and photos, have multiple handy connectivity methods, from Lighting ports to USB-C connections, and come in compact form factors to make storing them away a breeze. With fast read and write speeds, the best iPhone USB sticks also tend to get the job done more quickly than web-based uploads, and can come in some funky designs to complement your personal style.

We've been testing USB storage devices for iPhone for years. Whether you've got an older iPhone with a Lightning port or a new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max with USB-C connection, there's a cherry-picked iPhone drive for you right here.