How to Move Apps to SD Card on Android Phone - Free up space and increase storage

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You may want to move your Android apps to an SD card if you keep running out of space and insufficient memory. Internal memory on Android phones can vary from 4GB to 32GB or higher. Much of that is already taken up by the operating system and preloaded software. If you have a low storage capacity phone, you really can’t install much on your Phone. After you start downloading apps, taking photos, downloading movies and saving music on the device, you risk running out space. Fortunately, a number of tablets and phones come with microSD card slots that allow you to expand your storage capacity by inserting a micro SD card. Here’s how to move apps to the microSD card using Android’s application manager. I’m using the LG Optimus Exceed 2 prepaid phone for Verizon. If I go to the storage settings, I’ll show you how this phone is pretty limited on space right out of the box. This phone only has 4GB of internal memory. So I’m going to expand the storage with an inexpensive micro-SD card. Once it’s mounted, I will have just under 30GB additional memory available. Now I’m ready to move apps off of the phone’s memory and onto the card. In the Application Manager, I’ll select the app I want to move. On the details page, there will be a Move button. Right now it says Move to Phone because the app is already on the card. I’ll move it back to the phone and then I’ll move it to the SD card. When the app is stored on the phone, the button now says Move to SD Card. So I’ll just tap that button to move it back. The time it takes depends on the size of the app. This is great but there are some apps that cannot be moved and most of those are system apps so just be aware of that. The Move to SD Card button will be greyed out on those. Now that I can get apps off the main storage of the phone, I can download more games or whatever without worrying about space. This phone only accepts a maximum of a 32GB card but others can use much larger cards. I hope you found this helpful and if you did please give me a thumbs up and don’t forget to subscribe for more how to videos and product reviews.

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  1. Hey i have a 4gb sd card but when i click on the app it only says move to phone storage or move to internal storage there is no option to move it to the sd card and im struggling to download just 3 apps any solutions ??
  2. Thank you very much
  3. This is not helpful because this doesn't solve the problem that people are having with this at all. If you click the "Move to SD card" button, It moves like 40% of the app and when you have the SD card set and he default install, the apps still get installed partially on the internal storage.I'm losing my mind trying to find an answer to this! Nothing works! Why make an operating system that screws the user like this! Why make phones with low internal memory that can take SD cards to increase storage andthen screw by limiting how much of the app you can actually store and not be able to store it at all because you're out of internal memory??!!I have a 16 GB SD card and with 13 GB free space and a 4 GB phone that refuses to let install anything on the SD card because I have no internal space. I hate Android!!
  4. Very Detailed! 👌but what do I do next after the app is on the SD card do I just uninstall it on my phone?
  5. This helped thanks :)
  6. I moved apps on SD but it still occupies space on internal but as soon as I take SD card out the apps disappear,but somehow apps still take up space on internal,I m using Samsung Galaxy J7
  7. my app manager doesn't show move to sd card on all apps it only says clear data and clear cache..please .
  8. In the newer android versions android , you must set your SD Card as your internal storage in order for you to move apps to the SD Card
  9. I moved a lot of apps to my sd card
    but the memory of my internal storage didn't go down. Does anyone know what should I do?
  10. my phone has the options to move it but I can't click it, it appears but not clickable(I have a lgk7)
  11. Thank U friend
  12. I have a Samsung Tab 4 and for some reason it only let me move 4 apps I had to my SD Card (Pandora, Wikipedia, Google Photos, and Amazon?) I can't even move downloaded apps I have like Showbox, or Netflix to my SD Card. Any help?
  13. crap vid there is no such a button neither to move or change on my phone i am trying to move angry birds 2 help please couse this video is crap and does not help me.
  14. thank you so much
  15. so does the sd card have to say samsung on it for android phones or u could just try any sd card on any type of phone like apple ir android
  16. CAN YOU STILL USE THOSE APPS?
  17. I can't move my apps, and the 'move to sd card' will not appear
  18. doesn't work on Samsung on5
  19. minez wont work mines sd catd is kodak