Current and future Samsung Galaxy S7 owners, there's no need to worry about the limited storage on the smartphone, as apps can be installed on the microSD card.
When the handset was first unveiled, it definitely turned some heads when it came strutting on the market with a microSD card slot, but it did draw some flak when the smartphone maker didn't provide support for the adoptable storage feature of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Fortunately, that won't be much of an issue after all.
Droid Life Editor-in-Chief and Founder Kellen Barranger discovered that the Galaxy S7 lets users move apps to the external storage, pretty much the same way its predecessors did. Well, except for the Galaxy S6 lineup obviously. He continued to say that when he took out the SD card, the apps transferred to it went with it.
That's good news because it would be a shame not to be able to make the most out of the 200 GB microSD card support of the Galaxy S7, but the bigger reason is that the smartphone eats up a whopping 8 GB of space out of the box, all thanks to an avalanche of preloaded and system apps plus the TouchWiz on top. Coupled with the fact that only the 32 GB variant rolled out in the United States, a power user won't be happy with the circumstances, even if they offload every media file to the external storage.
Samsung explains that it opted out of the adoptable storage deal because it could cause some problems for consumers, such as when they could pull out the microSD card while the feature was in gear and possibly mess up the software.
For the uninitiated, adoptable storage essentially turns the microSD card into a part of the internal storage, allowing users to install apps on it and anything else that a native storage can offer. As everyone can imagine, people were not happy when Samsung ditched this.
To boil things down, it's a good idea to cram in a 200 GB microSD card into the Galaxy S7, and in the case of others, it's more or less a necessity. Perhaps Samsung could soon change its mind about adoptable storage, but this temporary solution of sorts is more than enough to quell the outrage that the absence of the feature has caused.
