It depends on whether you’re talking about transferring a relatively small selection of photos (dozens or a few hundred at most) vs thousands. The latter can be annoyingly difficult, the former is pretty straightforward if you use Google Photos as the middleman. Set your phone to sync photos with Google Photos (if it doesn’t already), and then you’ll be able to view and download individual or selections of photos to either laptop via a web browser.

You can do the same with other cloud services like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc if you prefer, which have the advantage of Windows desktop apps that will automatically sync selected folders in both directions. The Google Photos desktop app will automatically upload photos from Windows to Google Photos, but no longer works the other way, which is annoying.

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The answer is ‘it depends’, based on the version of Android you’ve got, whether the phone is rooted (unlikely in your case), and the app itself. Unless it’s rooted, you’re not moving the app, just some of its data files, but that can still make a big difference.

Take a look here for more info. Note too that doing this can drastically reduce performance for those apps, as reading and writing to/from SD cards and other external storage are much slower than the phone’s internal memory.

Firstly I would need to definitely commend for bringing tech savvy information from A to Z which a traveler would need.

I have downloaded some of the recommended apps for photo editing and writings by your articles. They are simply amazing and have even recommended to many of my readers.

As of now for this piece of news, I need help. Two months back my Sony Xperia Z3 which I had been using for the past 2 years died on me, I have to wait till end June to have a new contract signed to pick a new phone. Hence, meanwhile I picked up LG K8 phone (the older version) which only has 8GB internal memory storage, However, I have an internal SD card of 16GB fixed where I have transferred all my photos and music files into(I still have .

However, I still have issues with receiving messages or saving new contacts in my phone. I had to even remove some of my apps like FB messenger and Instagram to allow space for other features to work.

Ok so for the dumbest question(I know I am not tech savvy at all): Can I used the external storage to download apps or is it apps can be only downloaded based on internal storage. Seriously I am finding it difficult without many apps like Instagram, carousel, maps, fotor, snapseed and etc. I currently only have uber and another app downloaded in my phone which takes up the most space I suppose.

Looking for an answer to determine whether I should be getting another phone. 🙂

Thank you!!!