iPhone capacity shows 14 GB?

[gtgrad95]

I just received my iPhone 4 this week. I noticed in the About->Capacity screen it says 14.0 GB. Since the phone is 16 GB, why is 2 GB not available? It is not jailbroken or anything.

 

[gpatrick15]

The OS takes up space as well, so the actual storage space available would be <16gb

 

[Intell]

Because of how the disk is formatted and the iOS takes up about 1 Gb.

 

[Applejuiced]

Not again...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/950267/

 

[Decesus]

As with any storage device (Hard Drive, Flash Drive, iPhone), the actual storage will NEVER be the same as it's advertised storage. Go and check your laptop!

 

[Bandolier]

How many more times will people who only use computers for facebook and signing up for free trials understand this?

 

[rk1991]

As with any storage device (Hard Drive, Flash Drive, iPhone), the actual storage will NEVER be the same as it's advertised storage. Go and check your laptop!

Never say never. This is my 250gb macbook unibody and it came with 249.72 gb. it actually had a little over 250gb before I reformatted it and for some reason it lost some. maybe it was because of the os update but watever. I cant post pics of those because that was like a year ago and I never took a screen shot.

btw my iphone also has 14gb but its not a big deal. majority of the time u never get the full amount.

 

[The General]

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Never say never. This is my 250gb macbook unibody and it came with 249.72 gb. it actually had a little over 250gb before I reformatted it and for some reason it lost some. maybe it was because of the os update but watever. I cant post pics of those because that was like a year ago and I never took a screen shot.

btw my iphone also has 14gb but its not a big deal. majority of the time u never get the full amount.

snow leopard measures storage capacity the same way hardware vendors do. (1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes)

boot windows on your computer and it will say it has far less space. os x creates a 200mb EFI partition, which explain some of the lose during formatting.

 

[kdarling]

Not again...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/950267/

Of course "again". This question should be eternally expected as new users find out the wicked ways of marketing folk

Here's what Apple says: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2419

(Apple's response page talking about powers of ten makes absolutely zero technical sense for iOS, as it uses neither a hard drive nor a flash drive. A 16GB iPhone uses a raw memory chip with full capacity of 17,179,869,184 bytes, not 16,000,000,000.

Up to 10% of that is used for the Flash File System overhead, so that could knock off a lot of space right there. In addition, almost a half GB can come dead from the factory... which saves costs... so Apple probably hides that in there as well.)

 

[iMacDragon]

the os partition is 800mb iirc, and whilst the flash chip is 16gb, upto 10% of it will be set aside for wear levelling use, as on other SSD type drives.

 

[Interstella5555]

Have people never used a hard drive or a computer before?

 

[Applejuiced]

Have people never used a hard drive or a computer before?

Guess not

 

[rk1991]

snow leopard measures storage capacity the same way hardware vendors do. (1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes)

boot windows on your computer and it will say it has far less space. os x creates a 200mb EFI partition, which explain some of the lose during formatting.

Oh that makes sense. I never realized that.