Using SD card for expanding internal storage. Now cannot use camera anymore

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@mgv

Is there a topic on how to save photos etc on the external storage.

As mentioned above you can manually move or depending upon which camera app you use you can store directly on the SD card.

The following post shows the SD card used by Open Camera
(ignore the opening text as the default camera can now store direct to the SD card)

Software Update: Android 11 for Fairphone 3 and 3+

Hi and welcome to the forum It will depend upon which camera app you are using. The default camera can no longer use an externally formatted SD card, not that internal formatting is the solution. After A11 google do not allow saving to an unencrypted storage. i.e.a portable SD card unless certain flags are clicked. That option hasn’t been added to the default camera, probably as it wasn’t updated at the same time as the A11 See > Storage Access Framework in the image below You may like to tr…