Thursday, July 24, 2014

How To Move Apps & Games To Your SD Card In Windows Phone 8.1/Lumia Phone?

Running out of storage space on your Windows Phone? You've probably filled it up with games, apps, photos, music and more. If your Windows Phone has support for a SD card you're in luck. With a few taps you can move things from to your SD card from your phone's internal storage. In the process freeing up your phone's internal memory. You can also set it up so that new music, videos, podcasts, photos, apps and downloads automatically get stored in either your phone or SD card.

 

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In this article we will see fallowing four topics

How to move items from your phone to your SD card?

How to move items (with one click )from your phone to your SD card?

How to set automatically install apps, games and more to the SD card?

How to move or uninstall multiple apps with Storage Sense on Windows Phone 8.1?

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Go to the first topic…….

How to move items from your phone to your SD card?

The following instructions are for Windows Phone 8.1 handsets and work regardless of your phone maker.

  • In Windows Phone 8.1 go to the application list
  • Scroll to and open Storage sense
  • Tap phone
  • Select a category (apps + games, music, videos, podcasts, photos)
  • Select the app
  • Tap 'move to SD'
  • Your app will now be moved from the phone to the SD card

SCREEN SHOTS:

wp_ss_20140723_0001    wp_ss_20140723_0002

wp_ss_20140723_0003    wp_ss_20140723_0004

wp_ss_20140723_0005    wp_ss_20140723_0006

wp_ss_20140723_0007    wp_ss_20140723_0008

wp_ss_20140723_0009     wp_ss_20140723_0010

wp_ss_20140723_0011    wp_ss_20140723_0012

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How to move items (with one click )from your phone to your SD card?

Another way to quickly move stuff to your SD card is by tapping the select button in the app+games page. This will allow you to select more than one app or game and move them to the SD card all at once. Saving you steps and taps.

How to set automatically install apps, games and more to the SD card?

Whew. You just moved a handful of apps and games to the SD card. Can we make future apps install there automatically? Of course. Here's how you do just that using Storage sense on Windows Phone 8.1.

  • In Windows Phone 8.1 go to the application list
  • Scroll to and open Storage sense
  • You'll see four categories on the bottom of the page (photos, apps, downloads and media)
  • Tap phone for the category you want to change and then select SD card

Congratulations. You just changed the default storage for your apps from your phone to your SD card. Now you don't have to micromanage your apps when they come in.

You've started to master Storage sense on Windows Phone 8.1. Don't forget you can do more with Storage sense like uninstall multiple apps at once!

How to move or uninstall multiple apps with Storage Sense on Windows Phone 8.1?

1. Open Storage Sense on your phone.

TIP: If you think it is something you will use fairly often, you can now pin it to your Start screen.

2. Tap where it says 'phone'. Storage Sense may take some time to enumerate your data usage, but you will eventually see something like this:

3. Next, select Apps+Games and then press the folder select icon at the bottom.

4. Here you can select which apps you want to uninstall or move to the micro SD.

5. If you choose to uninstall the apps, simply confirm your choice. If moving them to your secondary storage, choose the micro SD, then confirm.

And there you have it.

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MOHAN - Mechanical Engineer by profession, but passionate about Computers,Mobiles, Software, Blogging and anything that helps learn something new and different. Love to do things which i don't know.

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