Move Pictures from Android to SD Card
If you want to access any pictures or images on your Android device somewhere else, all you need is an SD card. Read this wikiHow to learn how to move pictures from an Android device to an SD card.
Contents
10 Second Summary
1. Launch the file explorer application.
2. Open the folder containing your photos.
3. Select the photos you want to move.
4. Tap the app’s menu and use the “Move” option.
5. Go to the SD card memory location.
6. Choose a folder to move the photos to.
7. Paste your photos.
Steps
Check Your Phone
Make sure your device has an external SD card. If your phone or tablet doesn’t have one, then there’s no place to move your photos to.
- Check if your phone supports or has an SD card. Look for any slot on the sides or in the battery bay of the device. These are the places where SD cards are mostly mounted on.
- You can also check it on your device. Simple go to your device’s Settings and go to the Storage section. Your SD card information will be displayed here. If you don’t see any section about memory cards, then your phone might not support or doesn't have one mounted on.
- Check if your phone has a file explorer app. Most Android phones and tablets often come with a file explorer app by default. These kinds of programs give you access to your device’s files and documents, much like how you navigate between folders on a computer. Look around the installed applications on your phone and see if there’s one installed.
- If you don’t have a file explorer app on your device, you can download any of the several similar apps on Google Play. Get one and have it installed on your Android. All of these apps can be used pretty much the same way.
Move Pictures from Android to SD
- Launch the file explorer application. Tap on its icon on the app screen to open it.
- Go inside your device’s memory. Some file explorers simply display your device’s memory as “phone” or “tablet” memory. If not, it can be displayed as “/storage”.
- Navigate to the location of the photos you want to move. Your photo’s location depends on what app you used to take it:
- Most third-party photo apps creates a folder of its own to save pictures; these folders are commonly named after the apps that created it, so it won’t be hard to find.
- Photos shot with your device’s camera are stored by default in a folder named DCIM, right on the main folder of your device memory, so it isn’t that hard to spot too.
- Open the folder and select the photos you want to move.
- Tap the app’s menu and use the “Move” option. The location of the menu and Move may vary depending on the file explorer app you’re using, but the function is mostly similar with third-party explorer apps.
- Go to the SD card memory location. Like with step 2, most file explorer labels the SD memory as it is or as “External Memory.”
- For other apps, look for the location that has an “ext” with its name (i.e., extmem).
- Navigate to the location where you want to move the photos to. Look for a folder or create a new one (file explorer apps allows you to create folders too).
- Paste your photos. Once you’re in the desired directory, open the app’s menu and use its Paste option to move your photos from Android to your SD card.
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Tips
- Most file explorer apps are free, but you need an active Internet connection to get one. If you’re using mobile data, check your network subscription first before you download to avoid any unwanted charges.
- Some file explorer apps come with a feature that allows you to move all the photos detected on your phone’s memory to the SD card. Read the description of the app on Google Play before you download to see if it has this feature.
