Where are the extended storage settings located?

[radzey]

Extended storage options?

• radzey
• May 31, 2022
• microsd otg

Does anyone know where to find this menu?

Where to find the menu in this screenshot? I looked everywhere the settings for it, but it is nowhere to be found. I am using Android 11. Was it perhaps removed at some point?

 

[Hadron]

Options in Settings can not only change between Android versions, but can also depend on the manufacturer (compare a Pixel and a Samsung running the same version of Android if you want to see how different).

I've never seen this menu on any device I've owned. And a menu that has an option to open a third party file manager doesn't even look like a system menu to me.

What is it you are trying to do? And what device do you have?

 

[radzey]

Options in Settings can not only change between Android versions, but can also depend on the manufacturer (compare a Pixel and a Samsung running the same version of Android if you want to see how different).

I've never seen this menu on any device I've owned. And a menu that has an option to open a third party file manager doesn't even look like a system menu to me.

What is it you are trying to do? And what device do you have?

That was a quick response. Thanks. I use an Ulefone Armor 8 Pro.
It looks like a menu where the storage access options for individual apps can be adjusted. Perhaps my device does not have it. But from which device is it?

 

[ocnbrze]

That was a quick response. Thanks. I use an Ulefone Armor 8 Pro.
It looks like a menu where the storage access options for individual apps can be adjusted. Perhaps my device does not have it. But from which device is it?

no idea, so this is not from your phone? where did you see this? "extended storage" is not a common terminology on a phone that i have seen before. it is not on any samsung phone that i know of.

what exactly are you trying to do?

 

[Hadron]

That was a quick response. Thanks. I use an Ulefone Armor 8 Pro.
It looks like a menu where the storage access options for individual apps can be adjusted. Perhaps my device does not have it. But from which device is it?

I've never heard of a menu where storage access options for individual apps can be adjusted. Though there are a couple of things that could be related to that:

1) you can grant or deny access to files and media on the shared storage via an individual app's permissions. You'd do that via the privacy settings (where most devices would keep permission management) or via individual apps in Settings > Apps.

2) if you have a removable sd card you may be able to move (parts of) some apps to it, again via Settings > Apps. Or you might be able to format it as internal, in which case there are some options for managing what is on the phone and what is on sd. As I've never owned a phone with that option (and wouldn't use it if I had) I've never seen those settings.

Those are the only system items I can think of that might fit that description.

That screenshot looks old to me - there's an Android 5 vibe to it. And it was around 4.4 that Google began to tighten up access to shared storage and sd cards (which use a primitive file system that lacks access control, and so poses data security risks). They initially over-tightened things badly, and took a couple of versions to really straighten things out. So I wonder whether that screen is showing a historical attempt to manage that, either through a system feature or an app?

 

[Dannydet]

No such thing as extended storage and if ES file explorer is saying that, it's a misleading menu item.
Thats China calling, and ES is all over that app

 

[radzey]

and wouldn't use it if I had

Me neither. "Adopted storage" defeats all benefits of MicroSD: data recoverability, MTP bypass, and data portability between devices. Thankfully, Google does not enforce that nonsense.

no idea, so this is not from your phone? where did you see this

Not from my phone. It was shared in a Facebook group.

what exactly are you trying to do?

Find that menu or find out which device has this menu.

So I wonder whether that screen is showing a historical attempt to manage that, either through a system feature or an app?

It could have been in some beta build. It is what I am trying to find out.

if ES file explorer is saying that, it's a misleading menu item.

It is not inside ES File Explorer. It looks like it is a system setting.

 

[ocnbrze]

you are going to have to ask someone in the FB group. it is not a common menu that i'm aware of. "extended storage" is not a common term nor is it something that i have seen here.

curious why do you want to know this? are you having storage issues? do you have an sd card?