How to Move Android Apps to SD Card? The Google Play Store has millions of apps that interest you, but how many of them can you actually install? The number of apps you can install depends not only on the time you have at your disposal, but also on the technical limitations of your smartphone.If your cell phone doesn’t have enough internal storage space, chances are that you will see an error from the Google Play Store informing you that you are out of storage space and that an app cannot be installed. Even if you have a large microSD card installed in your smartphone, by default the Google Play Store installs all its apps and settings on the internal memory of your Android device, which is usually limited to 1 GB to 4 GB on ordinary cell phones.
How to Move Android Apps to SD Card?
What you can do to solve the problem of low storage space is to move all your apps to the external SD card, which has more storage space overall. If you don’t have a large capacity microSD card, you should buy one.
You can follow these simple steps to move your apps and their settings to SD card in Android:
- First you need to open the Android settings screen, which you can do on all versions of Android by finding the Settings icon in the All Apps section and clicking once .
- Since you will not be changing the settings of the Apps storage, you need to select Apps from the settings screen.
- You will see a list of all the apps installed on your Android device. Make sure to view the category of apps Installed Apps on this screen . Then select the app you want to move to the external SD card.
- When the app settings open, you can scroll down until you see the External SD Card Data setting and then tap the dialog box labeled Move to External SD Card as shown in the image below:
- Moving app files to your external SD card can take some time depending on the size of the files. For example, if you are moving the Asphalt 3D game, more than 1 GB of data needs to be moved and it can take more than 10 minutes. Once the app is moved, you can close the settings screen by clicking the home button and start using your Android smartphone as usual.
