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Moving Apps to an SD Card on the GalaxyS5

This Tutorial addresses:
  • SD Card
  • Smartphones
  • Apps
If no SD card has been installed in your GalaxyS5 smartphone, all the apps that you install are stored in the phone’s built-in storage. If you keep installing and uninstalling various apps frequently, you might not experience any shortage of space, and you can keep using your smartphone normally.

On the other hand, if you install several apps on your smartphone without freeing up the space, your GalaxyS5 might gradually become slow and you might start experiencing its decreased performance as well.

In order to avoid the above situation, it becomes mandatory to install an external SD card on your GalaxyS5, and move all the apps to the card and free the internal storage of your smartphone in order to maintain its efficiency.

Moving apps to an installed SD card in GalaxyS5 is easy. Here’s how:

  1. Switch on your GalaxyS5 by pressing the power button.
  2. Tap the menu icon to go to the apps list.
  3. On the next interface, tap the Settings icon.
  4. From the Settings window, under the APPLICATIONS section, tap the Application manager option.

  5. From the displayed apps list, under the DOWNLOADED tab from the Application manager interface, locate the desired app that you want to move to the SD card.
  6. Once located, tap to the select the app.

  7. On the App info interface, under the Storage section, tap the Move to SD card button in order to move the app to the SD card.

  8. You must follow the steps 5, 6 and 7 individually for each app that you want to move to your SD card.

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