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Where are Pictures Stored on Android Phone?

People like taking pictures with Android smartphones which equipped with HD cameras. They also prefer taking and editing photos with fun camera apps. As the number of the photos increases, the internal storage becomes less available. People tend to expand Android memory storage by transferring pictures or other data to external SD card. However, when backing up images from Android to computer. some may have trouble in finding where the photos saved, as the pictures taken by the camera, third-part camera apps or those transferred to SD card are stored in different folders. Go on reading the following article, you will figure out which folder on Android or SD card stores what kind of pictures.

Part 1. Pictures Taken with Pre-install Camera

By default, photos taken with pre-install camera will be stored in DCIM (Digital Camera Images) folder. It keeps pictures in this folder organized and prevent third-part camera app to import images that the camera didn't capture in it.

Part 2. Screenshot or Photos Taken with Camera APP

Images shot with 3rd-part camera app are automatically saved in a folder named after the app. As for the screenshot, you can access to Pictures/Screenshot and get them.

Part 3. Images Transferred to SD Card

SD card is the first choice for Android users to expand the internal memory storage. Data stored in SD card is well organized. Pictures transferred from phone or computer to the SD card are usually kept in Card/DCIM/Camera .

Note: You can change the default folder which stored pictures to another. If you want to save the pictures taken with camera in SD card, just open the camera and go to settings. Tap "Save to " and switch "Device " option to "Card ".

Read up here, you may know well where the photos stored on Android. Hurry to connect your Android smartphone to computer and back up the precious images to PC or Mac. If you want to know more about the file category in both internal and external storage, you can refer to the article Illustration on File Category of SD Card and get more details.