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Top 2 Ways to Transfer Photos Android Phone Memory To SD Card – 2017

Aug. 29, 2017 4:34 pm / Posted by Bobby Hills to Mobile Phone Tips
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Bought a new SD card and move pictures from Android to SD card to save phone storage? People like to take photos using their phone but with time, the memory will consumed, causing problems on your phone. Transferring photos Android phone memory to SD card is an easy way to save storage space on an Android phone. Here we share 2 easy ways for you to save photos to SD card on Android.

Method 1: Move Photos from Android to SD Card Directly on Your Phone

It is extremely easy to copy photos to SD card if you can locate the pictures on your phone that you want to transfer to your SD card. Normally, photos in Android phone are stored automatically in Apps > My Files > All Files > Device Storage > Pictures/DCIM/Music/Movies/etc .

Here is how you can transfer photos phone memory to SD card:

• Go to App > My Files on your Android device and tap All Files option.




• elect Device storage to locate the photos on your phone internal memory.




• Now you can see all the files on your phone internal storage. All the photos you have taken from your camera, saved from the internet stored on the DCIM folder. And the screenshots you have taken are in the Picture folder.




• Go to Camera and select the pictures you want to move to SD card from Gallery or simply select all. Then, tap the Share option from the top right corner and Copy.


Note: Here we personally recommend you use the Copy options to avoid any possible data loss due to transfer errors. If you unfortunately lost any important photos on Android phone, a professional Android Data Recovery may help you recover lost data from Android internal memory and SD card.




• Go to Settings > Copy > SD memory card. You memory card will have a DCIM folder already. Open DCIM folder and tap on Camera.


Note: If your phone doesn’t have a DCIM folder, create DCIM folder here and create Camera folder within this new DCIM folder.




• Finally, tap Paste here in the upper right hand corner of the screen and it will automatically start to transfer your photos. After it’s done, you can check whether the files are saved onto your SD card and delete those files on your phone internal memory.

Method 2: Transfer Photos Android to SD Card Using A Computer

The easiest way is to move photos from Gallery to SD card is connecting your phone to your computer and then transferring the files over to your SD card.

Plug your phone into your computer using an USB cable and make sure you turned on USB storage on your device.

• On you computer, go to Start Menu > My Computer. Double-click on your Android device and then Internal storage.
• Open DCIM folder and click on Camera. Select the files you want to transfer. Right click on them and select Copy.




• Now go to Card > DCIM > Camera and paste all the photos you just copied on your phone internal memory.

Extra Tip: How to Save Photos to SD Card on Android By Default

Bought a new memory card for your Android phone and want to change the photos to save on the SD card by default? Generally, when you insert the SD card into your phone and open Camera app, it will ask you if you wan to change the storage location to the SD card. Just click on OK.

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