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iPhone 11 Pro Do you think 10GB of free space is enough?

Hieveryone

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I have the iPhone 11 Pro Max. I bought the 64GB version and have just over 10GB free.

Is that enough?
 
Ta0jin said:
Enough for what? Do you plan on adding more apps? Do you use the cloud? I need more context.
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I don't use cloud, just itunes backup.

I just need the space for pictures mainly. I occasionally download apps as well to try out but delete most of them. The main ones I keep are the standard ones everyone does (IG, twitter, facetune, etc)
 
Without knowing what you put in, or do with your phone? Yes, 10GB is plenty if you don't add anything from this point. Otherwise no, you need more.
 
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tripleburst said:
Without knowing what you put in, or do with your phone? Yes, 10GB is plenty if you don't add anything from this point. Otherwise no, you need more.
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Basically for pics. I do record video too but I usually transfer that to my Mac and delete from phone to save space anyway. So just pics mainly
 
there was another thread where the OP had 5000 photos on the iPhone some how. I am thinking its a life time of images. Keep a few hundred images and delete or archive the remainder. Lots of stable storage options these days.
 
If you're not a hoarder of old pictures and videos you'll never look at again, a 64 GB device is plenty big
 
jeyf said:
there was another thread where the OP had 5000 photos on the iPhone some how. I am thinking its a life time of images. Keep a few hundred images and delete or archive the remainder. Lots of stable storage options these days.
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I doubt 5000 photos is a lot these days.

If I were the OP I’d switch to a bigger storage or take a good look at iCloud Photo Library. I have a large library on it and am pretty happy with the solution.
 
jeyf said:
there was another thread where the OP had 5000 photos on the iPhone some how. I am thinking its a life time of images. Keep a few hundred images and delete or archive the remainder. Lots of stable storage options these days.
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How do you archive photos?
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If you're not a hoarder of old pictures and videos you'll never look at again, a 64 GB device is plenty big
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I'm a hoarder sadly, but I guess I could start deleting.
 
I have a terabyte of photos ... and they are backed up 5 times over ... with the 5th one being locked in a fireproof safe. There's no reason to delete photos when computers exist.
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To a computer...
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This ...
 
Bandaman said:
I have a terabyte of photos ... and they are backed up 5 times over ... with the 5th one being locked in a fireproof safe. There's no reason to delete photos when computers exist.
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This ...
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Well how do you preserve live photos? I thought you could only do that in the photos app
 
Hieveryone said:
Basically for pics. I do record video too but I usually transfer that to my Mac and delete from phone to save space anyway. So just pics mainly
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You can always transfer photos too so 10g is a lot of space. If you want a new phone just get one. No need for justification.
 
So now you know your usage is 50+ Gb so next time do not get the 64GB version.

10G is not a lot of space as claimed here- download a few AppleTV+ eps and see for yourself.

I have the 64GB version and its not enough despite what people are saying here.
 
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icloudUser said:
So now you know your usage is 50+ Gb so next time do not get the 64GB version.

10G is not a lot of space as claimed here- download a few AppleTV+ eps and see for yourself.

I have the 64GB version and its not enough despite what people are saying here.
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Thing is, i have a 64gb and its fine....there is no definitive answer to this sort of question as its all down to what people do with their phones. For every person thats filling up a 128Gb or 256Gb phone there will be quite a lot that can get by as all they do is some texting, social media and a few photos. For example my wife last ages with no issues on a 8gb iPhone 4S!
 
insome ways an answer to this includes how functional Apple's ios memory managment scheem works for you. Also Apple's file managment. If your outside the bell curve of the average user be aware.
Do what you want
 
icloudUser said:
So now you know your usage is 50+ Gb so next time do not get the 64GB version.

10G is not a lot of space as claimed here- download a few AppleTV+ eps and see for yourself.

I have the 64GB version and its not enough despite what people are saying here.
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I could reduce my space to under 50GB tho.
 
ericwn said:
I doubt 5000 photos is a lot these days.

If I were the OP I’d switch to a bigger storage or take a good look at iCloud Photo Library. I have a large library on it and am pretty happy with the solution.
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Exactly. I used to do what the OP does, copy photos to my computer and delete them from my phone, back a few years ago when I used a Windows box. Back then I had 34,000 photos.

When I switched to an iMac, I decided to go "all in" with the Apple ecosystem and added the photos all to Photos and started using iCloud Photo Library. I've since learned to delete a lot of bad photos and near duplicates, as well as crop and enhance them, so they're down to about 20,000 photos. Thanks to iCloud Photo Library, they're now available on my iPhone and iMac, also on newer deviced I bought, like my iPad Pro and even Apple TV. Best thing ever.

Seriously, the OP should consider iCloud Photo Libary. Turn optimize on for iOS devices to use a lot less space, then have the full-resolution originals go to iCloud and download to the computer automatically. It's great.
 
Re: how to archive.

Can also dump them to an external drive with one of these:

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Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter

Transfer photos and videos to your iPad Pro with Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. Buy now with fast, free shipping.
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Select picture(s), tap share, Save to Files, tap the external drive.
 
No it's not enough. One minute of 4K HEVC video will add 400-500meg plus caching will fill it.

I learnt the hard way with iPhones and storage. Buy the 256GB and you'll never have to worry about storage again. I do this with MacBook purchases and Apple TV 4K too. You can never have too much storage but my gosh, when you haven't enough, it's not fun!

My iPhone is my portable MacBook so I tend to keep vlogs, surfing film, iTunes films, music etc alll downloaded to it and AirPlay from it to Apple TV. That's why I like to go for larger storage. I haven't needed to go for the 512GB one - just toooooo expensive on phone tariff for that model - in fact, the same price as a Fiat 500 on a contract!!!!!
 
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