How to free storage by moving apps to the microSD memory card on your Galaxy S7 or S7 edge

With Android Marshmallow, Google introduced the so-called Adoptable Storage feature, which merges the internal memory of a phone with the external storage in the form of a microSD card (if the device has such a memory slot), and treats the resulting cumulative memory as a one total partition. In theory, this would prevent user confusion as to how much exactly free space they have in total on the phone, instead of trying to calculate microSD storage and internal storage separately, or wondering in general what the heck are those.

It is up to the manufacturer to implement the option, though, and both the Galaxy S7 or the Galaxy S7 edge don't support Adoptable Storage, despite shipping with Marshmallow on board. They simply treat the microSD card as a separate entity, instead of lumping it together with the internal memory in the storage menu. Samsung did this as it prevents users with slow, cheaper memory cards from experiencing issues and hiccups that often occur with Adoptable Storage, as the internal storage is much faster and more reliable.