How to Free up the Storage of a Sony Xperia with a microSD

There is no doubt that it is one of the great concerns of mobile users, technologically speaking, the remaining memory space of our phone. Sony Xperia phones are no stranger to it and that is why today we tell you a trick to have more remaining storage space, with the help of the microSD card.

We already know that the microSD card is the device that can allow us to free up space on our phone, deriving from internal memory to external memory. In this case we make use of an automatic function that integrates your Xperia mobile to transfer that data to the microSD.

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So you can free up space automatically

In the settings of your Sony Xperia mobile you have a series of functions related to storage. And one of them is the function of moving data from internal storage to the microSD card .

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This adjustment can be found among the system parameters, and it is a kind of assistant that helps us to move quickly and directly all that data that we have left in the internal storage. For this, what we must do is enter the settings and select the following phone options:

  • Click on the settings icon
  • Select the save button
  • At the bottom click on the button “transfer data to SD card”

Now is when a wizard starts that aims to move files from internal storage to the microSD card . What this wizard does is transfer the multimedia files, those that are essential for the correct operation of the system. Therefore we can choose to move the photos, videos or music.

What this app does is show us what each of the contents in the phone’s internal memory occupies. In this case we can see that we can free up to more than two gigabytes of data, especially belonging to the photos stored in the internal memory that we have taken with the camera.

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In this process we must bear in mind that before you must give the phone permissions so that it can access the microSD card. If you have files larger than 4GB, they cannot be transferred to the external microSD card . At the bottom we will have a quick view of the gigabytes that are free on the microSD card.

So it is possible to know if everything will fit or not. Now you just have to choose the content and click on the transfer button to move that data. This is important, since they are not copied, they are moved so that they free up their space in the internal memory.