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iPhone 11 Pro 64GB or 256GB?

64gb for me. I usually use about 1/2 of the available space. All of my photos automatically backup to Google Photos, so I can delete them from the camera roll.
 
For what its worth, I've been very happy with 64GB in recent years because so much gets uploaded to one cloud or another, but with the 11 Pro I thought I might wind up with photo and especially video storage needs that would cause problems with a 64GB phone, so I paid for 256GB. I don't know if it's going to be necessary, but I figured I'd see what happens this year. I'm on the IUP so I can adjust next year as needed.
 
64gb is enough for me. My last 2 iPhones have all been 64 and I never went over 40 gigs. I do wish the Pro models had the 128gb option I think that’s the sweet spot.
 
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I use iCloud for everything. (hundreds of gigs photos, messages, and so on).

64 GB is plenty. had 256 GB last gen, totally overkill.

If you have iCloud, go for 64 and let iOS manage it for you.
 
Storage is one of those things that what is good for the goose may not actually be good for the gander.

it’s really simple if you like to download music or videos to watch later in non-reception areas, then you want 256 GB.

Personally 64 GB is enough for me because I keep all my music and anything else I can in the cloud I don’t download it to my phone.

I take pictures and videos off my phone regularly, name them, and store them on my computer, a back up drive, and in Google cloud. If I let things get any greater than 50 GB I’ve got a lot of work on my hands to name everything and recall all the pictures that I like to organize.

I purchased 50 GB of iCloud space just in case I should ever lose my data on my phone before transferring over to my computer and back up for safety.

So technically I never let it get past 50 GB, no matter if their 4K videos or pictures and any storage greater would be a waste for me on my phone. I stream Apple Music, Netflix etc from the cloud.

Having said that, there’s no doubt in this day of age that an Apple phone you pay $1000 for shouldn’t have 128 GB of storage default.

Perhaps you can get away with 64 GB of space on the lower end models that you pay $700 would be the wiser plan for consumers and Apple competition.

Otherwise it just boils down to plain greed like others have pointed out. Not to mention the ridicule of android users who get 128 GB default on even their cheap Crap phones.
 
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I always go for the smallest storage. Don’t record 4K videos, don’t store music on my iPhone (have a dedicated iPod for that). Won’t come close to filling up 64gb. It really depends on what you use your phone for.
 
I bought the 512 GB and I currently use about 40 GB. However, I plan to keep the phone more than 2 years and I also plan to take a lot of 4K 60fps videos
 
64 is perfectly adequate for my usage. However I’d likely get 128 if an option (on my Xs after a year I was using around 50gb). 256 is overkill and it annoys me how much Apple charges for it given the price of the phone already.
 
If you travel (by plane) a lot, I would recommend the larger capacity and download everything (of importance) to your phone. That is my worst thought to be on an airplane and not be able to listen to downloaded music or videos.
 
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256GB minimum for me personally. My son and daughter fill up 64GB with just a few games and the silly videos of absolutely nothing that they record for like 30 minutes straight. So I continuously have to go and delete stuff or they cannot download some new game they want.
 
While i only use 30 gb of space currently, 64 gb would be a good one but in reality i never buy anything that low. So i just went with the 512GB. 256 gb would be sufficient but im starting to take more photos and take videos.
 
I have an iPhone 11 (non pro) but since this about the memory size I will butt in.

I have everything in iCloud (photos and documents) which amount to a little more than 300Gb. I use Apple Music.

I usually remove any apps I don't use on a regular basis.

You guessed it if you are ready to organise your apps a little and use the Cloud, 64Gb should be more than enough.
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1050792 said:
256GB has faster read/write speeds. Just for that I would avoid 64GB.
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Read/write speed on a phone ? I'm curious at what use cases put this gap clearly (if any) in evidence ?
 
Lyrca said:
I have an iPhone 11 (non pro) but since this about the memory size I will butt in.

I have everything in iCloud (photos and documents) which amount to a little more than 300Gb. I use Apple Music.

I usually remove any apps I don't use on a regular basis.

You guessed it if you are ready to organise your apps a little and use the Cloud, 64Gb should be more than enough.
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Read/write speed on a phone ? I'm curious at what use cases put this gap clearly (if any) in evidence ?
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Doesn't matter if it's a "phone". It's a solid state drive too...
 
Lyrca said:
Ok, so there is a gap. I'm just curious at this translates in use cases (i.e outside benchmarks) ?
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You need to find performance tests vs each other. This is physics and hadrware. There is a difference in speed, in the long run 256GB will do operations faster with future iOS updates.
It's like a CPU. Faster = better.
 
1050792 said:
You need to find performance tests vs each other. This is physics and hadrware. There is a difference in speed, in the long run 256GB will do operations faster with future iOS updates.
It's like a CPU. Faster = better.
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Sure, but OS performances are also very dependent on the CPU and RAM, which are the same in both configurations. I still wouldn't go for 256Gb just for the sake if it being faster. Mind you this is for a phone on a computer it would be whole different story since I work with large files.
 
Lyrca said:
Sure, but OS performances are also very dependent on the CPU and RAM, which are the same in both configurations. I still wouldn't go for 256Gb just for the sake if it being faster. Mind you this is for a phone on a computer it would be whole different story since I work with large files.
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If you are taking large videos and many pictures, storage speed will help, same with copying and moving files.
 
256 GB. 64 GB is not enough with the cameras on this thing. Was listening to John Gruber who said he asked several people to see how much storage they were using. Based on his informal survey he concluded that most people need around 128 GB, which is not available on the Pro. Apple really should have ditched the 64 GB storage option for the Pro and started with 128 GB in my opinion.
 
1050792 said:
If you are taking large videos and many pictures, storage speed will help, same with copying and moving files.
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Sorry, still not convinced.

Apple states that a 1 minute video at 4k60 uses an average of 400MB (480MB for slow-motion)

Youtube video measures write speeds above 1GB/s in both configurations which leaves a lot of overhead, and so does the read speed at a minimum of 250MB/s.

I agree however that when moving and copying it will obviously help. I'm just saying that when it comes to me I can live with it taking a little longer since I cannot justify getting a larger storage based just on the speed (that is on a phone of course).
 
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Sorry, still not convinced.

Apple states that a 1 minute video at 4k60 uses an average of 400MB (480MB for slow-motion)

Youtube video measures write speeds above 1GB/s in both configurations which leaves a lot of overhead, and so does the read speed at a minimum of 250MB/s.
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Well. At the end of the day you get whatever you want. My Point was that higher storage capacity = faster performance and I showed evidence.
 
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