Move Photos To SD Card On LG V30 (Solution)

Selfies are contagious. Which is why having an Android phone with a great camera can lead you to take a lot of selfies, filling up your phone’s storage capacity. Enter the SD card, which enables you to store files, photos, and videos from your phone onto it. Every picture you have taken on your phone will go to your phone’s internal storage by default, gradually filling it up. In order to maintain sufficient free space on your phone, you should know how to transfer these photos to an internal SD card. And if you are an LG V30 user, you’re in luck because we will be teaching you how to transfer the photos from your LG V30 to your SD card in this guide.

Please pay attention to every detail, because the methods that we’ll teach you can be used on other smartphones out there. Though minor differences are present according to the operating system of the phone you’re using, as long as you know the basics and where to look, you’ll be able to transfer your files onto your SD card in any smartphone of your choice.

Benefits of Moving Your LG V30 Photos to the SD Card

A lot of users love scrolling through their gallery just to admire their countless selfies. When the phone memory is full, instead of creating a backup for their pictures, they prefer deleting anything that they don’t want.

That’s the most common benefit of moving your photos on your SD card. It’s for you to be able to keep all pictures you’ve taken on your phone. With that being said, there’s another way you can benefit from moving your photos to your SD card.

Filling up your phone with a lot of pictures and videos will eventually fill up your storage capacity, resulting in memory issues on your LG V30. Your LG V30 might suffer from the scarcity of memory for running specific applications which will eventually lead to bugs and app failures.

Why suffer from these issues when you can freely use your SD card for additional phone memory?

Yes, exactly. You can save not only your precious selfies here but all sorts of files and data that you don’t cluttering your phone. The process we’ll be teaching you is not only applicable with pictures but also with documents, music, and videos.

Transferring the Photos on Your Gallery to your LG V30’s SD Card

By default, Every picture you take will be automatically stored in a folder on your LG V30 called “DCIM” or “Pictures”. To access this, Go to Apps > My Files > All Files > Device Storage.

Once you have reached the “All Files” option, you will notice that aside from “Device Storage”, where your pictures are saved by default, there’s another option named “SD card storage”.

After that, tap on the Device Storage to find the files you want to transfer. In General, pictures you took with your LG V30’s camera will automatically be stored to“DCIM”; the screenshots will be stored in “Pictures”.

How to Move Files

1. Open your LG V30
2. Select the folder you want to transfer
3. You can manually choose what you want to transfer or simultaneously transfer it all with the function “Select All”
4. Touch the “Share option” located at the upper right corner
5. As the option expands, Press “Copy”
6. Once again, head to the general “Settings” menu
7. Press “Copy”
8. Choose “SD memory card”
9. Browse for another “DCIM” folder inside or use the “Create folder” option to create a “DCIM” folder and a “Camera” folder inside of it
10. The process will take a few minutes and once it’s done, the files have been transferred