When you take a picture or record a video on your Samsung Galaxy S8 or Note8, it has to be saved somewhere. You can choose to save items to the internal memory of the phone or the SD card by using a setting within the Camera app.
- Open the “Camera” app.
- Select the settings gear icon located at the upper-right corner of the screen.
- Scroll down and tap “Storage location“.
- Select “Device storage” or “SD card” as desired.
Anna says
May 17, 2019 at 5:57 pmI have the same problem. None of my photos are saving to my SD card despite changing the relevant settings. I was hoping someone here would have an answer but it sounds like it’s a note 8 fault.
K E Tang says
April 28, 2019 at 5:18 pmI have a Samsung Note 8 and have the same problem as all the above contributors, the photos and videos just do not move to the sd card. It is about time Samsung technical experts give their comments. Can we hear from them???
Darcie Clements says
February 20, 2019 at 9:34 amI also have a note 8 and my storage is set to store to the SD card and it doesn’t. It’s still saving to the phone memory!! Frustrating, please fix Samsung!
Neil Kalmanson says
April 17, 2018 at 5:34 pmFrom the above comments, and my own experience, it doesn’t work on the Note 8, or other Samsung phones
Najam Ahmed says
March 31, 2018 at 7:48 pmThe problem seems to be across most Samsung products. I have a S8 and Tab E 9.6. On both, when I set the camera to record directly on SD card it results in an error “Recording failed”. If I take pictures, it also ends in error ” Could not save on SD card, switching to device memory”
Miguel says
January 27, 2018 at 9:28 amNo it didn’t help. As I said and also one other person on here. The SD card was already installed and set to SD for storage. on the settings. There seems to be a problem in this area with Samsung phones.
Kristine Eiland says
December 7, 2017 at 12:33 amHow do I upload already taken photos to your sd card?
Miguel Rosas says
November 26, 2017 at 12:18 pmI have SD card installed and camera storage set to SD card. But it still doesn’t store my pics there. I have all the latest updates on my Samsung Note 8
Mitch Bartlett says
November 4, 2017 at 11:05 pmDo you have an SD card installed?
Cassidy says
June 21, 2016 at 7:33 pmIn my setting, it doesn’t list location as an option, what do I do?