How do i install an app to sd card and keep them there.

[John W Walsh]

Some if not most of the apps that I have manually removed from internal stores to sd card will return to internal storage when I restart my phone. BTW it's a Note 8

 

[Tim1954]

When you "move" apps to SD card, only a small part of the app actually moved, the guts stays in the device memory. The devs have to code the app for it to work from SD card and it's too unreliable with lots of variants. Leave apps in system and move media instead.

 

[Rukbat]

Also, there's a link fin internal storage for every piece moved to the SD card (and there are many small pieces moved). Moving an app to the SD card is a cute trick, but normally doesn't save much, if any, internal storage. (The smaller the app for what it does, the more chance that it was written by a good developer, so moving even the whole of a small ap to the SD card saves only a small amount of storage. Moving a large, poorly-written app moves a lot of little pieces, also not saving much space.)

And the SD card won't last as long if an app is running from it, if the part of the app that saves its state is moved to the card. An app that's doing things is constantly writing to storage - and an SD card has a limited number of write cycles.

All in all, it's best to not move apps to the card - or to format a card as internal (or adoptable) storage.

 

[B. Diddy]

I moved this from the Android Apps forum to the Note8 forum for more specific traffic.