Confused about using micro SD cards on this phone

[shilent]

Just received my RP2 yesterday and I'm really confused on how SD cards are used. I currently have it formatted as portable.

Here's the problems I'm seeing:
- Camera doesn't have an option to save to SD card.
- The Google photos app doesn't see any pictures/videos on my SD card.
- plugging into my Windows 10 computer, I only see internal storage.

I've tried formatting as internal, didn't seem to resolve any of the issues above. Not sure I like the idea as internal. When does it decide to use the SD card? It even warned that apps may be slower when formatting as internal.

So far I'm only able to use my SD card for Netflix downloads and Google Play Music downloads.

Never had this problem with any previous phones (Xperia XZ1, Nokia 7.1, LG G6)

 

[metty2k13]

I've noticed this on my razer phone aswell tried to use a 128gb card and it just absolutely tanked my loading speeds to the point phone wouldn't boot with said sd card in mounted as internal storage. Took said card out phone works fine. It was a class 10 speed too guess they need to be alot faster in read/writes to work properly

 

[shilent]

It appears the photos app couldn't see my SD card due to a common bug. I had to clear data and cache from system apps "Media Storage" and "Settings Storage". After clearing, photos app now sees my SD card and I can also see it when plugged into a computer.