topic apps to SD ? in XZ Series

XZ2 apps to sd card

alinco02 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:28:06 GMT

On the new Xperia xz2 can you move apps from phone storage to external sd card?

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

najodleglejszy — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:23:12 GMT

I've requested some more info about that.

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

EUPHORIC2017 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:56:26 GMT

@alinco02wrote:
On the new Xperia xz2 can you move apps from phone storage to external sd card?

As i know in Oreo is impossibe to move apps to SD card at all. So i think NO, you can't transfer app to SD card

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

Jonas — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:10:41 GMT

Hi @alinco02, welcome to our forum!

I have received some more information regarding your question and I'm afraid that the Xperia XZ2 does not support moving applications to an SD card.

You can however still save data to the SD card from certain application, such as offline play lists, offline maps and so forth. Do note that this varies from application to application!

@EUPHORIC, You can still move applications to the SD card in Oreo on devices that supported this feature in Android 7, such as the Xperia XZ.

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

EUPHORIC2017 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:08:58 GMT

@Jonaswrote:
Hi @alinco02, welcome to our forum!

I have received some more information regarding your question and I'm afraid that the Xperia XZ2 does not support moving applications to an SD card.

You can however still save data to the SD card from certain application, such as offline play lists, offline maps and so forth. Do note that this varies from application to application!

@EUPHORIC, You can still move applications to the SD card in Oreo on devices that supported this feature in Android 7, such as the Xperia XZ.

@Jonas, /t5/Xperia-XZ1/Move-app-to-Sd-Card/td-p/1266969#gref - well i don't have device with Oreo (which by the way is Android 8 :)), but as you can see, some users saying that option is disabled, that's why i wrote that. Thanks for correction

So in Oreo is possible to move apps which is movable in memory card? Maybe is the same way how is in Marshmallow, where is need to move every app personally (in oldest Android systems was possble to move all together, wasn't separated)?

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

Jonas — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:16:30 GMT

Hi @EUPHORIC, sorry for the late reply!

In those devices that supported moving applications to the SD card in Android 7.0 you can still move applications to the SD card even in Android 8.0, for example Xperia XZ.

You need to move them one by one to the SD card and you are correct, previously there was an option when you tapped "Transfer data to SD card" called "Apps/Applications" that moved all of them at once!

I hope that explains it about further!

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

EUPHORIC2017 — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:43:12 GMT

@Jonaswrote:
Hi @EUPHORIC, sorry for the late reply!

In those devices that supported moving applications to the SD card in Android 7.0 you can still move applications to the SD card even in Android 8.0, for example Xperia XZ.

You need to move them one by one to the SD card and you are correct, previously there was an option when you tapped "Transfer data to SD card" called "Apps/Applications" that moved all of them at once!

I hope that explains it about further!

It's ok for late replay. Thank you, Jonas, for information and explain at all. I understand now what you mean, but a little correct. All apps was and is possible to transfer together in Lollipop 5.0 and 5.1, one by one possible to transfer from Marshmallow (Android 6.0). That's why i asked you, coz you mentioned only Android 7, so was little not clear for me, coz i have Sony Xperia only with Marshmallow. About Oreo as i posted was some users opinion and information which i posted. But i hope it's clear enough for all Sony's costumers right now

Re: XZ2 apps to sd card

ahinterl — Fri, 25 May 2018 09:53:51 GMT

Unfortunately, other than my XZ1 does, apps like Here Maps or Pons dictionaries don't see the SD and therefore put even all the data content in the main memory!

I see a continuous "degrade" of SD usability on my last Sony phones (X, XZ, XZ1, XZ2): The newer the phone, the less you can put on the SD. The XZ2 is currently the end of the road since it looks like apps cannot place anything which belongs to the app on the SD. Everything goes right on the mein memory. It cannot get worser than this! In times where micro SD cards have 512 GB, better and expensive phones still have 64 GB only! It's "better" memory, agreed, but anyway, the difference in capacity is way too big!

Apps to sd card

L301 — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:52:22 GMT

I have the experia xz2 which appears to be unable to move apps from the device to an sd card which will undoubtedly cause a severe reduction on the life of the phone. Will there be an update in the future to change this? Thanks

Re: Apps to sd card

skycamefalling — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:19:07 GMT

I'm pretty sure that there won't be an update to move apps to the SD card because it doesn't make any sense. Apps would launch slower and be more unstable. The best place for apps is and has always been the internal storage.

How this reduces the life of the phone is beyond me.

apps to SD ?

Ricardcs — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:56:16 GMT

How can I transfer apps from the internal memory to an SD card..?

~~Como puedo pasar aplicaciones de memoria interna a la tarjeta sd..?~~

Re: Apps to sd card

L301 — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 20:16:08 GMT

Please Google the subject.

Re: Apps to sd card

Ricardcs — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 21:17:18 GMT

I've no get any answer, we can or not?

Re: Apps to sd card

obbillo — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 03:08:38 GMT

Do you work for Sony cause you can't possible be this stupid? Yes for games it's important that they launch and work quick, but who cares about apps like messenger and about 1000+ others? Also no, on most apps of medium size you won't notice any difference if it's on sd or internal, they're definitely not more unstable. If large size maybe they'll launch a bit slower.

'How this reduces the life of the phone is beyond me' ...Wow, do you know how phones work? By storing everything internally you will slowly fill up the the phone, and THEN we can talk about working slow and unstable. And then you have to buy a new phone if you don't want to delete your apps. Which is probably the idea behind all this from the makers of phones, so they can sell a new phone to imbecils like you every 6 months. Why reply when you clearly don't even understand the essence of what people are talking about? Let people store on sd if they want

Re: apps to SD ?

dg26 — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 13:53:14 GMT

Enable developer settings when enabled select it then scroll too the bottom and look for "force allow apps on external"

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Re: apps to SD ?

k_mpel — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:42:44 GMT

I enabled it, but there is still no option to move apps to sd card.

Re: apps to SD ?

dg26 — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:34:52 GMT

OK forget that, it doesn't allow u too move apps lol

Re: apps to SD ?

Jonas — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:30:06 GMT

Hello everyone!

In regards to why this feature is no longer available, please see the information below.

Google stopped providing the possibility to move apps to an SD card to secure the security and the privacy in Android 6. This feature was removed from Android, but we continued to support it further for some time. However, we decided not to keep our solution to move apps to an SD card for users security and privacy.

I hope that answers your question!