iPhone 11 Pro Anyone still living with 64GB?

[ssledoux]

Here’s a question, and it may be a little OT. I’m not trying to derail the thread, so if I need to start a new thread, let me know.

For those who store photos in the cloud, how does that work ultimately? I mean they are there, but if you get a new device and you’re uploading or backing up from the cloud, does it try to load all those photos? If not, are they just stuck there. I mean I use the cloud, but honestly, I have no idea what’s there, although I’m thinking maybe I’m not using it for photos.

How do you access the ones in the cloud if you want to delete them, print them, etc?

 

[rui no onna]

For those who store photos in the cloud, how does that work ultimately? I mean they are there, but if you get a new device and you’re uploading or backing up from the cloud, does it try to load all those photos? If not, are they just stuck there. I mean I use the cloud, but honestly, I have no idea what’s there, although I’m thinking maybe I’m not using it for photos.

How do you access the ones in the cloud if you want to delete them, print them, etc?

With the Optimize Storage setting enabled in iCloud Photos, the new device just downloads thumbnails. When you view the pic, that’s when it downloads the full size version. As long as you have fast internet, accessing photos on iCloud is pretty seamless just like any other image in your Photo library.

iCloud Photos syncs changes across the cloud and all your devices. If you make a change or delete a photo from one device, then that change/deletion is synced to all your other devices.

Alas, I’ve been in areas with poor cellular and wi-fi when I want to show others some pictures (which ultimately fail to download on demand). Hence, while I do use Optimize Storage on some devices, I usually have Download and Keep Originals on my primary devices.

 

[AE_stc]

My old 7 had 128 and I never broke 60 being absolutely careless

I’ve had my 64 xs Max for over a year now and I’m at about 43. No real management either just checking time to time.

my pictures are about 200gb so I’d need 256 or 500 to store them on the device

 

[ssledoux]

With the Optimize Storage setting enabled in iCloud Photos, the new device just downloads thumbnails. When you view the pic, that’s when it downloads the full size version. As long as you have fast internet, accessing photos on iCloud is pretty seamless just like any other image in your Photo library.

iCloud Photos syncs changes across the cloud and all your devices. If you make a change or delete a photo from one device, then that change/deletion is synced to all your other devices.

Alas, I’ve been in areas with poor cellular and wi-fi when I want to show others some pictures (which ultimately fail to download on demand). Hence, while I do use Optimize Storage on some devices, I usually have Download and Keep Originals on my primary devices.

Ah yes, poor cellular and poor WiFi are a huge issue here. Up to now I’ve kept photos on my iMac and when I sold it I just burned them all to USBs. My plan is to use those with my iPads to make my photo books and print anything I want to frame, then just store the USBs for eternity I suppose? Lol

What I do now is try to go through my phone photos every week or two and delete things I really don’t need, duplicates, etc. I just haven’t decided what my storage method will be going forward, but guessing I could still just move everything from my phone to some sort of storage device.

Anyway, thanks for that. I don’t want the thread to get derailed.

 

[d.best.5205622]

Why does Apple even offer it? If 64 is all you can afford, you can’t afford that damn expensive iPhone

 

[JemTheWire]

They offer it because they know people will buy it. I have had 64GB iPhones for as long as I can remember.
If you know that you can manage with 64GB then why spend more buying extra memory? Keep the £££ in you pocket. The device still works the same.

I have 20GB free on mine glad I kept those £££ in my pocket.

Simples.

 

[C DM]

Why does Apple even offer it? If 64 is all you can afford, you can’t afford that damn expensive iPhone

Plenty of people can do with even 32 GB, so what's the issue again?

 

[nfl46]

It’s enough for me.

 

[ggibson913]

My mom gets by on it and indeed works well for her. But she has also bolstered her iCloud account for .99 per month to help her do so. I generally recommend for anybody the 128 GB.

 

[AE_stc]

Why does Apple even offer it? If 64 is all you can afford, you can’t afford that damn expensive iPhone

What a weird backwards way to look at life

 

[Stiss]

64GB owner here. 14GB of spare space left.

 

[fluamsler]

Only half used.
I don't need THAT much storage. We have a iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 8 and a iPad Pro first Generation, all 64 GB capacity. About once a year I offload all the photos and videos of the devices to the NAS (8TB storage in RAID 1 and backuped to external HDDs, currently about 800 GB used).

For me it doesn't make sense to buy bigger storage options for all our devices. I prefer to share one big storage with all the devices. If we really need more capacity in the future we could upgrade our NAS to a 4-Bay or 5-Bay model and get around 48 TB of RAW storage (4x 16TB HDD on RAID 5; one Disk is for redundancy) which is pretty future proof.

 

[nordique]

Yep...with 31GB to spare

 

[blairh]

Looking at getting a cheap refurbished 11 Pro Max and am looking at the 64GB.

Just wondering how that feels day to day for most of you. Do your apps fill it quickly then you get into trouble with photos and videos you've taken etc?

My apps are mostly banking apps, Strava, Garmin, WeChat, WhatsApp, Twitter, Youtube.

Sometimes downloads a Buch of games, play once and delete.

I do have a bad habit of not deleting photos, but I need to think of a longer term solution to store them that isn't iCloud. I don't think having 100GB of photos on your phone is a good idea, it's just lazy (which I am). I keep losing lots of cool shots from years ago just because I have no backup solution that's super simple.

All my photos and videos are stored in organized folders in Dropbox. I probably clear out my camera roll once a week. I don't keep any photos or videos on my iPhone for more than a week.

The only media that takes up room on my iPhone is podcasts. And even those I will delete many unheard episodes if I feel they are building up. I download music only for flights. I will unsave once I'm back on land. I stream otherwise.

I very rarely play games.

I have plenty of room plus 120 applications.

 

[ericwn]

Why does Apple even offer it? If 64 is all you can afford, you can’t afford that damn expensive iPhone

Well as we can see from plenty posts before yours many people are totally satisfied with the storage.

 

[Spudlicious]

If you want to shoot video at 60FPS for super smooth viewing, those files get big really fast. I've been using a 64GB iPhone for 6 years (currently have 18GB free) and it's fine but I don't save many pictures or videos. Ruthless editing is a necessity if using a 64GB phone. I don't use iCloud photos, they're all on my phone.

When I get a new iPhone will I choose a 64GB model? Hell no. It's too confining.

I hope you have some form of backup? ANYTHING could happen to the phone!

 

[jr866gooner]

Ah yes, poor cellular and poor WiFi are a huge issue here. Up to now I’ve kept photos on my iMac and when I sold it I just burned them all to USBs. My plan is to use those with my iPads to make my photo books and print anything I want to frame, then just store the USBs for eternity I suppose? Lol

What I do now is try to go through my phone photos every week or two and delete things I really don’t need, duplicates, etc. I just haven’t decided what my storage method will be going forward, but guessing I could still just move everything from my phone to some sort of storage device.

Anyway, thanks for that. I don’t want the thread to get derailed.

My wife has one of those double ended memory sticks and one end is lightning the other standard USB. It came with instructions to download the app to choose the pics you want to store on it then you simply plug into the pc afterwards with the USB end then copy off the stick. You can then do as you please with pics etc.

 

[bransoj]

Why does Apple even offer it? If 64 is all you can afford, you can’t afford that damn expensive iPhone

In the UK at least the majority of users will get their iPhones as part of their mobile plan making the phone much more accessible to people compared to forking out £1000+ to buy it direct. Of those people there will be plenty who simply use it for messaging, calls, social media, the odd photo and some internet browsing and smaller memory phones will be fine. Its not so long ago my other half was perfectly happy on an 8Gb iPhone 4 that she kept for around 3 or 4 years and then only swapped to a 16gb 5S and again had no issues.

 

[iDron]

Plenty of people can do with even 32 GB, so what's the issue again?

Two reasons for Apple from a business standpoint:
- Advertise a lower starting price for the 64GB, (iPhone 11, starting from just 699) knowing that is not enough for most people, but you lure them into looking at it closer.
- I assume that 64GB chips are really cheap now, Apple maybe even have purchased leftover stuff, so for people buying this version, the margin is high.

For consumers:
Honestly, if you do not download music or films to your device, do not sync your entire photo library and do not shoot much videos, you don't fill up that much space!

 

[Shanghaichica]

I have a 256GB 11 pro max which is my main phone. I also have a 64GB OG SE. I’m using 29.1 GB of space.

I don’t think I could use 64GB for my main device but for my SE it’s fine.
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In the UK at least the majority of users will get their iPhones as part of their mobile plan making the phone much more accessible to people compared to forking out £1000+ to buy it direct. Of those people there will be plenty who simply use it for messaging, calls, social media, the odd photo and some internet browsing and smaller memory phones will be fine. Its not so long ago my other half was perfectly happy on an 8Gb iPhone 4 that she kept for around 3 or 4 years and then only swapped to a 16gb 5S and again had no issues.

The smallest capacity I ever had was the 16GB iPhone 3 and I increase the storage each time I upgrade. However there are people like my mum who could make do with 16GB of storage because like you said all they are doing is sending messages, making calls and checking social media.

 

[TJ82]

Well I got the 256GB yesterday and set it up from the latest backup a week before the XS Max died.

Last night I went on a mad delete spree and removed over 6500 photos (maybe some videos in there too).

Now using 29.3GB / 256GB and that's with all my apps on.

Pretty sure I could live fine with 64GB now. Only reason I got this 256GB was it was cheaper than any 64GB on eBay.

 

[d.best.5205622]

They offer it because they know people will buy it. I have had 64GB iPhones for as long as I can remember.
If you know that you can manage with 64GB then why spend more buying extra memory? Keep the £££ in you pocket. The device still works the same.

I have 20GB free on mine glad I kept those £££ in my pocket.

Simples.

I could NEVER manage with just 64GB. It’s only a telephone with that much memory in my opinion
Simples

 

[thejadedmonkey]

I don't use my camera much. I've use around 28gb. My last phone was a 32gb SE, and I only just filled it up.

 

[C DM]

Two reasons for Apple from a business standpoint:
- Advertise a lower starting price for the 64GB, (iPhone 11, starting from just 699) knowing that is not enough for most people, but you lure them into looking at it closer.
- I assume that 64GB chips are really cheap now, Apple maybe even have purchased leftover stuff, so for people buying this version, the margin is high.

For consumers:
Honestly, if you do not download music or films to your device, do not sync your entire photo library and do not shoot much videos, you don't fill up that much space!

So basically no issue with consumers being able to select that option if it works for them, and that an iPhone isn't somehow something that isn't for them as the post that that was originally in reply to said.

 

[Aoligei]

LOL. I am still using my 32GB iPhone 6S Plus...