iPhone 6 Storage Capacity

[Mlrollin91]

I hear you.
There's a few appstore apps that clear out the cash.
That has saved me room and freed up some GB's of storage before.
I use battery doctor, not sure if its still available but there's a few more I heard.

Battery Doctor doesn't work anymore :/ But Magic Cleaner works with APFS.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I have an iPhone 6 with the advertised 16GB storage capacity. I've had the phone for several years and for the most part it has been a good phone except.........


Although it is advertised as the 16GB storage capacity in actuality it only has 12GB. For future reference, is 4GB less than advertised acceptable, and if not what is an acceptable variation between listed and actual?

I've had almost every iPhone since the first one came out except the 5C and one or two others and they all were a little less than what they were supposed to be. But 25% is just unacceptable to me.

What do you think?

I would say when you only have 16gb device that 12gb left is about right. Clearing the cache will only help for a while. With todays apps you need a minimum of 64gb

 

[MDMachiavelli]

I would say when you only have 16gb device that 12gb left is about right. Clearing the cache will only help for a while. With todays apps you need a minimum of 64gb

Yep, I've found this out the hard way.
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I hear you.
There's a few appstore apps that clear out the cash.
That has saved me room and freed up some GB's of storage before.
I use battery doctor, not sure if its still available but there's a few more I heard.

I used Memory and Disk Scanner Pro, and it does an okay job but from what I hear none of the clean the cache from the larger apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox.

Does Battery Doctor?
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Battery Doctor doesn't work anymore :/ But Magic Cleaner works with APFS.

Will Magic Cleaner clear the cache on bigger apps like Facebook, Twitter, and the others that build up needlessly?

 

[Newtons Apple]

Yep, I've found this out the hard way.

Sorry. Once upon a time 16gb would do but it is getting harder and harder.

You will need to look and see what you can get rid of, OR it could be new phone time!

 

[MDMachiavelli]

Sorry. Once upon a time 16gb would do but it is getting harder and harder.

You will need to look and see what you can get rid of, OR it could be new phone time!

Probably new phone time.

I used to anticipate and get excited at the idea of getting a new phone. Now that there really is no "contract" price and they want you to pay full price for a phone or make payments on it I am really dreading it.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Yep, I've found this out the hard way.
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I used Memory and Disk Scanner Pro, and it does an okay job but from what I hear none of the clean the cache from the larger apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox.

Does Battery Doctor?
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Will Magic Cleaner clear the cache on bigger apps like Facebook, Twitter, and the others that build up needlessly?

Yes Magic Cleaner will. You may have to run it 5-6 times a row. But it will eventually get rid of the deep down caches. Sometimes rebooting the device after 2-3 runs will trigger it to purge the cache upon next run. I've been doing this for about 5 years now, this is the method I found to be the most effective.

Run Cleaner 2-3 times. Reboot device. Run cleaner 2-3 more times. Then sync with iTunes. Its tedious, but I swear by it. After those 4-6th runs, it should come back as everything cleaned. I just do them to be certain.

 

[rui no onna]

I wasn't referring to how it was reported in iOS, I was referring to the actual size available. If you look at your iOS 10 capacity vs 10.3, thats the point I was trying to make. Pre-iOS 10.3 had less available storage because of not having APFS.

Right. APFS did increase available capacity. Just pointing out that one can't simply compare, for example, iOS 9 reported capacity with iOS 10.3 reported capacity and say APFS increased available capacity by 20GB.

• iPad (256GB): 238GiB or 256GB
• iOS 9 Reported Capacity (232GB): 232GiB or 249GB
• iOS 10 Reported Capacity (248GB): 231GiB or 248GB
• iOS 10.3 Reported Capacity (252GB): 235GiB or 252GB

 

[MDMachiavelli]

Yes Magic Cleaner will. You may have to run it 5-6 times a row. But it will eventually get rid of the deep down caches. Sometimes rebooting the device after 2-3 runs will trigger it to purge the cache upon next run. I've been doing this for about 5 years now, this is the method I found to be the most effective.

Run Cleaner 2-3 times. Reboot device. Run cleaner 2-3 more times. Then sync with iTunes. Its tedious, but I swear by it. After those 4-6th runs, it should come back as everything cleaned. I just do them to be certain.

I will definitely try it, thanks.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Right. APFS did increase available capacity. Just pointing out that one can't simply compare, for example, iOS 9 reported capacity with iOS 10.3 reported capacity and say APFS increased available capacity by 20GB.

• iPad (256GB): 238GiB or 256GB
• iOS 9 Reported Capacity (232GB): 232GiB or 249GB
• iOS 10 Reported Capacity (248GB): 231GiB or 248GB
• iOS 10.3 Reported Capacity (252GB): 235GiB or 252GB

Yes but thats just because of how iOS reported it. iTunes has always reported it in GiB and they still do. If you follow one format only, its a lot easier. But the only time it has actually gone up was from iOS 10.2.x->10.3. Available capacity did not go up 20GB. It was just reported in a different format. It only went up 3-4GB.

 

[rui no onna]

Yes but thats just because of how iOS reported it. iTunes has always reported it in GiB and they still do. If you follow one format only, its a lot easier. But the only time it has actually gone up was from iOS 10.2.x->10.3. Available capacity did not go up 20GB. It was just reported in a different format. It only went up 3-4GB.

I assume when most people talk about their iOS device storage, they just go to General - Settings - About instead of plugging in their devices to a computer to check via iTunes.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I assume when most people talk about their iOS device storage, they just go to General - Settings - About instead of plugging in their devices to a computer to check via iTunes.

You are probably correct. But iTunes is more accurate than iOS because of it being in GiB.

 

[Applejuiced]

Battery Doctor doesn't work anymore :/ But Magic Cleaner works with APFS.

Magic Phone Cleaner?
I just downloaded it.
Thank you.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Magic Phone Cleaner?
I just downloaded it.
Thank you.

Yep, thats the one.

 

[MDMachiavelli]

Yes Magic Cleaner will. You may have to run it 5-6 times a row. But it will eventually get rid of the deep down caches. Sometimes rebooting the device after 2-3 runs will trigger it to purge the cache upon next run. I've been doing this for about 5 years now, this is the method I found to be the most effective.

Run Cleaner 2-3 times. Reboot device. Run cleaner 2-3 more times. Then sync with iTunes. Its tedious, but I swear by it. After those 4-6th runs, it should come back as everything cleaned. I just do them to be certain.

I did what you suggested, except I had to do it about twice as many times (probably because it was the first time) and it worked like a champ, thanks.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I did what you suggested, except I had to do it about twice as many times (probably because it was the first time) and it worked like a champ, thanks.

No problem, glad it worked.