128GB version of FairPhone3?

[BertG]

You are right on that.
While there is in most cases at least a workaround to keep using the SD-card/external storage, this is not neccessarily an easy thing to do.
E.g. this topic:

How do I get WhatsApp to use SD card instead of internal storage?

Judging by what is true for my apps that want to store data, this setting comes with the App and is not part of the system. As I have no whatsapp, I don’t have a clue, if and where such a setting might be to find. I did some searching on ecosia.org and happened to find this information (my own translation): "Unfortunately, there is no WhatsApp setting on Android to store data like pictures and videos on a SD-card." This german article explains what to do on a rooted phone, to achieve this go…