How to set an SD card as default storage on your Android device These instructions work for all SD-card-compatible devices running Android 6 or later. If you're unsure if your phone or tablet ...

What can you do with a microSD card on Android? Can you store apps and games? What's the difference between internal and external storage? We answer all.

How to use an SD card as internal storage in Android With certain Android smartphones, you may not be able to move apps to an SD card, even if your phone does have such a card.

If your Android phone is running out of storage space, many phones will allow you to insert an SD card, which you can set as the phone's primary storage.

Instead, the operating system “adopts” the SD card as internal storage, by combining it with the built-in amount. The benefit here is all apps now install to the SD card by default.

In a nutshell, when Android 6.0 sees that you’ve inserted a microSD card the operating system will ask if you’d like to treat it as portable storage or as internal storage.

MicroSD cards allow you to store more files locally, but they can be complex. Here's how to use a microSD card on your Android device, if you still can.