What's it like using a microSD card on Android in 2024? Can you install apps and games on and SD card? What's the difference between internal and portable storage?

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.

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.

Amazon Fire tablets are never known to offer huge internal storage. The latest Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 8 Plus models come in two storage versions, 32 GB and 64 GB. None of those figures are ...

I see a combined 192 GB in the storage analyzer in Settings, but it's split into 64GB internal and 128GB SD card. I can't seem to create any folders in the Google Files app.

You can move apps to an SD card from an Android phone's Settings with just a few taps, helping free up your phone's internal storage.