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Who else is getting 2 TB for their next iPhone ?

I know I know what need does someone need for that much storage. Was first a foremost local movies and tv show content of course. It can get pretty big. Streaming won't work everywhere well sadly :(
 
If you need 2 TB what is the cheapest option can any iPhone handle a portable hard drive ?
 
Would any of these work on any iPhone?

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I'm no wear even near 1 TB, more like 100gb so I'll likely downsize to 512 GB this time around.
 
My XS is a 256GB model--the only reason I have it is because it was the only iPhone available at AT&T when I upgraded in June 2019.

Personally, I have never hit above 50% used on this phone. I use it for social media for another job (content capture, social media apps, lightroom edits), music in Apple Music/Spotify/Youtube Music, audiobooks, AAA mobile ports (Apex, CoD, League), and file sharing. Have never run out of space on it and I plan on using this device until its officially unsupported.

Are you managing all of your tv/movies via iTunes? That must be a huge library on a small device
 
I mostly came to say thank you for not using an emotionally charged, clickbaity thread title. 👍

Having been lured here by normalcy, I should give you an answer to the question you asked: I spent years chasing ever more storage in my iPods then iPhones. It felt like I was always making compromises between music and images (mostly from my DSLR, not taken by the phone itself) and other things. Then it seemed to hit a threshold where everything leveled out.

I've got a 512GB iPhone Mini and it allows me to keep most of what I want with a comfortable amount of headroom. I don't need to compromise bitrate on my music any longer (and don't feel a need to go "lossless"). I've learned over time that it's ok to keep my images at reduced resolution on the smaller phone, there's other ways to share full quality images if I need to.

The other thing that changed is iPad-- on that device I put as much storage as is available. Music is a secondary concern, but movies take a fair amount of space when I travel and images at higher resolution, and then it also acts as a secondary file viewer and data shuttle if I'm not carrying my laptop with me.

So my storage anxiety issues have all focused on iPad in recent years and my iPhone is unlikely to grow much unless a significant new use case arises.
 
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Analog Kid said:
I mostly came to say thank you for not using an emotionally charged, clickbaity thread title. 👍

Having been lured here by normalcy, I should give you an answer to the question you asked: I spent years chasing ever more storage in my iPods then iPhones. It felt like I was always making compromises between music and images (mostly from my DSLR, not taken by the phone itself) and other things. Then it seemed to hit a threshold where everything leveled out.

I've got a 512GB iPhone Mini and it allows me to keep most of what I want with a comfortable amount of headroom. I don't need to compromise bitrate on my music any longer (and don't feel a need to go "lossless"). I've learned over time that it's ok to keep my images at reduced resolution on the smaller phone, there's other ways to share full quality images if I need to.

The other thing that changed is iPad-- on that device I put as much storage as is available. Music is a secondary concern, but movies take a fair amount of space when I travel and images at higher resolution, and then it also acts as a secondary file viewer and data shuttle if I'm not carrying my laptop with me.

So my storage anxiety issues have all focused on iPad in recent years and my iPhone is unlikely to grow much unless a significant new use case arises.
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Your welcome.

Cool.

I wish it was possible to load media content on a iPhone or iPad automatically without any user interaction but don't think that is possible :(

That way I could shuffle media on and off at will easily.
 
RinkDinkus said:
My XS is a 256GB model--the only reason I have it is because it was the only iPhone available at AT&T when I upgraded in June 2019.

Personally, I have never hit above 50% used on this phone. I use it for social media for another job (content capture, social media apps, lightroom edits), music in Apple Music/Spotify/Youtube Music, audiobooks, AAA mobile ports (Apex, CoD, League), and file sharing. Have never run out of space on it and I plan on using this device until its officially unsupported.

Are you managing all of your tv/movies via iTunes? That must be a huge library on a small device
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Yes my PC.
 
max2 said:
Your welcome.

Cool.

I wish it was possible to load media content on a iPhone or iPad automatically without any user interaction but don't think that is possible :(

That way I could shuffle media on and off at will easily.
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Well, I sync mine to my desktop fairly automatically. There's an option to "automatically fill free space with music", but I don't see a similar option for movies or photos. You can probably rotate content by using smart albums with a random selection... I think I'd done that on my watch for a while, but can't remember the details.
 
Analog Kid said:
Well, I sync mine to my desktop fairly automatically. There's an option to "automatically fill free space with music", but I don't see a similar option for movies or photos. You can probably rotate content by using smart albums with a random selection... I think I'd done that on my watch for a while, but can't remember the details.
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Cool.
 
max2 said:
It depends on if you put all your media content on your device or not.
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Yea I don't put all my contents on my device so I don't really need that many space. If I want to watch media, I have an iPad or MBP for that use. My iPhone will strictly remain as a phone device.
 
If you have a 2TB iPhone (and use that many storage), how would you back it up? It's already annoying and slow restoring 128GB-256GB amount of data. I shudder thinking the time it takes to backup and restore 2TB.... o_O
 
May I suggest updating the title to "2TB iPhone or higher anyone?"

The highest storage capacity I am thinking for a future iPhone purchase is 512GB. The highest storage I have right now is an iPhone 7 Plus 128GB and I have barely used the space. I am thinking of using it for taking photos and videos sometime soon as well as offline storage for Spotify, YouTube, and Netflix. I take pictures and videos using my Nikon D5500 DSLR camera however, it seems to be near the end of its life since I can only take photos and videos with it at random times and not when I want to.

As to why I said 512GB? I am thinking of getting 2TB iCloud storage and my current use case I barely used 128GB so I will not be going the 2TB route yet. I am thinking of focusing on mobile photography since you can immediately see the pictures and upload them as soon as possible which cannot easily be done with a DSLR camera. I am not going to drop taking pictures using a DSLR camera since I still believe that picture quality from them are still way better compared to smartphones. But that's just me.
 
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