How much capacity on your 64GB iPhone?

[davidoloan]

My new 64GB iPhone SE has capacity of only 55.22GB.

My old 16GB iPhone 6 Plus had 11.something GB.

How come my new one is taking so much space for IOS?

How much capacity does your 64GB have?

 

[Freakonomics101]

Mine has 59 GB available

iPhone 6s+

 

[rugmankc]

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402


113.33 on my 6sPlus 128gb

 

[davidoloan]

Hmmmm........

Freakonomics101 matches my old 16GB; about 5GB, my new one is almost double that, and rugmankc has almost 15GB unavailable which is a lot.

Are they all different? Anybody know why?

Just saw your link - thanks

 

[rugmankc]

BTW it is same for Android

 

[Applejuiced]

My 500GB SSD hard drive is only 465GB's

 

[rui no onna]

Hmmmm........

Freakonomics101 matches my old 16GB; about 5GB, my new one is almost double that, and rugmankc has almost 15GB unavailable which is a lot.

Are they all different? Anybody know why?

Just saw your link - thanks

Around 7% gets lost due to disparity between binary GiB and decimal GB. Then, the size of the root/OS partition also varies based on capacity. The higher the capacity, the bigger the root partition.

 

[RiddlaBronc]

I will assume because the 16gb model does not come pre installed with garage movie and imovie. Those are big apps.

 

[C DM]

Hmmmm........

Freakonomics101 matches my old 16GB; about 5GB, my new one is almost double that, and rugmankc has almost 15GB unavailable which is a lot.

Are they all different? Anybody know why?

Just saw your link - thanks

Mostly because of math:

Around 7% gets lost due to disparity between binary GiB and decimal GB. Then, the size of the root/OS partition also varies based on capacity. The higher the capacity, the bigger the root partition.

 

[Channan]

Apple lists storage in GB but iOS displays it in GiB.

64 GB = 64,000,000,000 bytes = ~59.6 GiB

Apple sells 64 GB. iOS displays 59.6 GiB.

 

[C DM]

Apple lists storage in GB but iOS displays it in GiB.

64 GB = 64,000,000,000 bytes = ~59.6 GiB

Apple sells 64 GB. iOS displays 59.6 GiB.

That is to say that essentially everyone lists storage that way.

 

[44267547]

I will assume because the 16gb model does not come pre installed with garage movie and imovie. Those are big apps.

How much approximately do those applications consume?

 

[Freakonomics101]

How much approximately do those applications consume?

Well the iMovie app itself is over 600 MB. So if you add onto saved videos or data to that app, you can easily get to a gig.

 

[rui no onna]

Apple lists storage in GB but iOS displays it in GiB.

64 GB = 64,000,000,000 bytes = ~59.6 GiB

Apple sells 64 GB. iOS displays 59.6 GiB.

My iPad Pro 9.7 has recently updated from iOS 9 to 10 overnight. Could've sworn I always selected Remind Me Later whenever it bugged me to update. I guess that's one problem I won't have with my 16GB iPad. It barely has enough free space to update apps nevermind iOS.

Anyway, interesting observation, reported capacity went from 232GB to 248GB and available capacity went from 77GB to 84GB. 256GB decimal would have just been 238GiB binary. I'm guessing iOS 10 now reports capacity in decimal GB.

 

[C DM]

My iPad Pro 9.7 has recently updated from iOS 9 to 10 overnight. Could've sworn I always selected Remind Me Later whenever it bugged me to update. I guess that's one problem I won't have with my 16GB iPad. It barely has enough free space to update apps nevermind iOS.

Anyway, interesting observation, reported capacity went from 232GB to 248GB and available capacity went from 77GB to 84GB. 256GB decimal would have just been 238GiB binary. I'm guessing iOS 10 now reports capacity in decimal GB.

Yeah, there were some changes related to that in iOS 10.

 

[Mlrollin91]

My iPad Pro 9.7 has recently updated from iOS 9 to 10 overnight. Could've sworn I always selected Remind Me Later whenever it bugged me to update. I guess that's one problem I won't have with my 16GB iPad. It barely has enough free space to update apps nevermind iOS.

Anyway, interesting observation, reported capacity went from 232GB to 248GB and available capacity went from 77GB to 84GB. 256GB decimal would have just been 238GiB binary. I'm guessing iOS 10 now reports capacity in decimal GB.

iOS reports GB now, but iTunes still reports GiB. Annoying as hell.