What's it like using a microSD card on Android in 2024? Can you install apps and games on and SD card? What's the difference between internal and portable storage?

In a nutshell, when Android 6.0 sees that you’ve inserted a microSD card the operating system will ask if you’d like to treat it as portable storage or as internal storage.

If your Android phone is running out of storage space, many phones will allow you to insert an SD card, which you can set as the phone's primary storage.

I see a combined 192 GB in the storage analyzer in Settings, but it's split into 64GB internal and 128GB SD card. I can't seem to create any folders in the Google Files app.

Replacing internal drives is certainly more annoying, especially with migrating the operating system and other existing data, but PC internal storage will always be significantly faster than SD cards.