Save WhatsApp data on SD card

Your smartphone usually has enough free space for messages and contacts. However, if you store a lot of pictures, videos and music, then the storage space on your Android device will quickly become full. To make room, you can save your WhatsApp data on an external SD card.

Save your WhatsApp data on SD card

If the storage space on your Android device is full, you can swap out data from apps to an SD card. This is not possible on an iOS device, as smartphones do not provide a slot for SD cards. Moving files to the SD card is also not directly supported by Android. Therefore, you can only move the WhatsApp data to the SD card under certain operations. This process only works on rooted smartphones.

1. If your smartphone is rooted, download the software "FolderMount" from a website of your choice.
2. After you have confirmed the requests, go to the plus in the menu bar.
3. Now fill out the form. Under "Name" you can think of a name, under Source specify the WhatsApp folder on your device.
4. After that, press "No" and select the external SD card as "Destination".
5. Activate the option "Exclude from media scan". Bestätigen Sie die nachfolgenden Anfragen.
6. Tippen Sie jetzt in der „Liste von Paaren“ auf den neuen Eintrag, bis das Zeichen grün leuchtet.
7. Die WhatsApp-Daten sind nun auf die SD-Karte übertragen.