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Please help me with a long-term family tech support issue; Is there an easy way on Android to move WhatsApp media (if not the whole app) to the SD card rather than internal memory? Here are the constraints;
- older Samsung (S7 IIRC)
- current data/chats/etc must *not* be lost (includes departed friends and relatives)
- rooting is not an option
- Android forks are not feasible either
Bonus points if you've made this work yourself and can explain it! Thank you :)
#Android #WhatsApp #DataHoarding
One additional user requirement, which has emerged from the replies so far (thanks to all) - moving files to a computer and then removing them from the phone is not a viable option for anything except a catastrophic data loss. All the chats and media *must* remain accessible via WhatsApp, which is why I bought an SD card in the first place, assuming that it would be simple enough to point WhatsApp to it for storage, similarly to the camera app, Spotify, etc.
She previously had an off-brand Android phone which my late father had got from AliExpress or something. Only after it was broken (and unrepairable, because no-one has spare parts) and replaced did I realise the killer feature - as well as an SD card slot, it had some massive amount of onboard storage, so it simply didn't hit a wall in the face of videopocalyse