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iPhone 11 Iphone owners over 40, question?

I'm guessing the biggest age related difference is how you keep your media. If you're old enough to remember CDs and DVD's, do you keep your music and video locally, or have you made the leap to streaming.

I'd guess just about everything else is age independent.
 
Analog Kid said:
I'm guessing the biggest age related difference is how you keep your media. If you're old enough to remember CDs and DVD's, do you keep your music and video locally, or have you made the leap to streaming.

I'd guess just about everything else is age independent.
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During the height of my teen years, we had music cassettes ( 8 track was still available) and if we wanted to make our own mix tapes, we had to do that manually recording the sound from vinyl.
 
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BasicGreatGuy said:
During the height of my teen years, we had music cassettes ( 8 track was still available) and if we wanted to make our own mix tapes, we had to do that manually recording the sound from vinyl.
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I learned from my dad that vinyl is higher quality than cassette, and it lasts longer, so you buy vinyl and record it to cassette. There are still songs that sound weird to me now because there was a power surge or something during the recording that put a buzz into the cassette and I've heard it so many times with the interference that my brain gets confused when it's not there...
 
I'm 60 and have a 256. Mostly for music and photos. But I have no idea how much storage you could need. You need to look what you currently use.
 
Analog Kid said:
There are still songs that sound weird to me now because there was a power surge or something during the recording that put a buzz into the cassette and I've heard it so many times with the interference that my brain gets confused when it's not there...
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In the early days of music file sharing someone had managed to include an ICQ “uh-oh” sound in the rip of a popular song. I’ve heard several “old” people comment that the song still sounds wrong without it 20 years later.
 
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I'm 61 and have 128. Use paid Google 1 for photos, Spotify for music and don't use many apps or keep much on my phone so 128 is good for me. It is a nice Android phone;) so I would have to pay more for the same storage on an iPhone.
 
I am in my forties and nothing you ask is specific to any age.

I recited 4K video on my iPhone. 256 GB is ok for a short while, more would be better. I play the occasional game on my iPad while the phone is too small to enjoy movies or games for me.
I use the phone as a snapshot camera, professional video camera and communication tool.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
During the height of my teen years, we had music cassettes ( 8 track was still available) and if we wanted to make our own mix tapes, we had to do that manually recording the sound from vinyl.
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Reel to Reel party tapes, man. Two turntable inputs and transition smoothly from one song to another.
 
cuzo said:
Do you need a lot of space on your iPhone? Do you have games for leisure activity on your phone? 64 or 256 or 512.

What I want to do and what I ha e time for are pretty different so do you keep it more simple with age and just get the minimum? Or do you still desire the extra?
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Minimum storage as my phone is used for email and making phone calls (Yup, some people still actually use a phone for that). I also use it to replace carrying a P&S but off load photos so space is not an issue.

Music I stream as well as radio stations. My car radio has simply become a bluetooth speaker.
 
64GB iphone 11 and its mosty fine. I’ve stopped playing games really so its just podcasts I download so I can playback on the train, or occasionally downloaded videos if I’m flying somewhere.

With COVID I’ve not been commuting so my overcast downloads have hit 8GB already and I’ve had to delete a bunch.

I’d expect with the 12 I’d stick with the base again - woudln’t say no to 128GB as base for a bit more headroom, but I don’t feel the need to pay extra for 256GB
 
I‘m 52. I typically buy 128, but it seems I never even use 64, so I bought the SE2 in 64, and it’s not even half full.

I purge photos though, and move them to memory sticks or upload what I want to photo software and print stuff from there. I’m not ever gonna be the person that stores 25K photos on their phone or in the cloud.

I don’t have a ton of music downloaded either - few hundred songs maybe. I have an Apple Music subscription and I do download favorites, but I just don’t have a ton stored on my phone.

I have a decent amount of apps, but only a dozen or so are games I have mainly if I’m sitting in an office bored and just need something to do. I could probably delete all but one or two - I rarely play those either.

Right now, I have 42 of my 64 gigs available, but I’m only the low end of pics/videos because I did just move a lot to hard storage when I switched phones.
 
I am 33 and I have one infant. I have never ever used up my 32GB iPhone. In fact, I sto have 10GB our of 32GB free.

I mostly streaming musics from QQ music and Apple Music.
 
My 50+ aunt only has 64gb because she doesn’t take photos and only watches movies with streaming. No games or music. Her iPhone 7 64gb lasted for 4 years til she exchange it to the 11 64gb.

I buy my 60+ parents at least 256gb of storage because they take lots of photos. Also junk from their wechat, whatsapp etc auto saves in the gallery/photos and they keep their phones for at least 5 years. They survived for 5 yrs with 128gb (iPhone 6) but I got them the higher storage (256gb) just in case this year for their new phones.

I’m late 30s and I got the 512gb 11 Pro Max coz I have lots of photos, music and videos. Not much games. We have crappy wifi/lte in my country so I like to save my stuff on my phone. It’s always when I’m bored waiting in line for something or need some important photo that the internet would be buggy so I try to download all my music and videos to my phone.
 
I’m 40 and the largest size phone I’ve ever had has been 64. Never came close to filling it. I move photos to iCloud and/or dedicated storage drives. Even 2 years ago I was using a 7 with 32 GB and that was fine.

I don’t download music. I’ll download shows for a flight but I don’t keep them on the phone afterwards. FWIW.
 
I’m 44 and I take a lot of photos, videos, screenshots, etc. It’s my passion. I’m using 232 of 256gb and most of that is my over 21,000+ photos and videos. I place all of them in subfolders of a master folder on my laptop. They sync perfectly into albums in my photos app on the phone.

I reference my pics and videos a lot. Therefore, I don’t use the cloud. I don’t want to have to rely on WiFi or solid service to see my material. Local storage means a lot to me. It’s so much more convenient (for me).

Apps I’ve really paired down and don’t even know the last year I’ve downloaded a new app.
 
ssledoux said:
I‘m 52. I typically buy 128, but it seems I never even use 64, so I bought the SE2 in 64, and it’s not even half full.

I purge photos though, and move them to memory sticks or upload what I want to photo software and print stuff from there. I’m not ever gonna be the person that stores 25K photos on their phone or in the cloud.

I don’t have a ton of music downloaded either - few hundred songs maybe. I have an Apple Music subscription and I do download favorites, but I just don’t have a ton stored on my phone.

I have a decent amount of apps, but only a dozen or so are games I have mainly if I’m sitting in an office bored and just need something to do. I could probably delete all but one or two - I rarely play those either.

Right now, I have 42 of my 64 gigs available, but I’m only the low end of pics/videos because I did just move a lot to hard storage when I switched phones.
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The photo montages iOS makes is really nice. Its one of the reasons I have roughly 50gb of photos on mine 😬
 
TiggrToo said:
Age has nothing to do with this. Not a single blessed thing.
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I can see that it might in some ways, but of course the rules never apply for everyone in a certain group, no matter what. I just think older people have a different mentality about the ways they use devices because a lot of us didn’t grow up with this tech. I still tend to hang onto some of the “old school” ways of doing things because of that - you know, stuff like pen and paper. ;-p

I know my kids often do things differently because they’ve had smart phones since their teens. They never really think about REAL pictures and photos like I do, or making good old fashioned lists on paper, or having a calendar/planner on paper (I’ve tried digital, even on my iPP, but there’s something about writing with a good ball point pen on paper that I just can’t get past). I’m sure there’s no particular age group that’s all one way or the other, but I think the tendencies are likely different if you’re older.
 
ssledoux said:
I can see that it might in some ways, but of course the rules never apply for everyone in a certain group, no matter what. I just think older people have a different mentality about the ways they use devices because a lot of us didn’t grow up with this tech. I still tend to hang onto some of the “old school” ways of doing things because of that - you know, stuff like pen and paper. ;-p

I know my kids often do things differently because they’ve had smart phones since their teens. They never really think about REAL pictures and photos like I do, or making good old fashioned lists on paper, or having a calendar/planner on paper (I’ve tried digital, even on my iPP, but there’s something about writing with a good ball point pen on paper that I just can’t get past). I’m sure there’s no particular age group that’s all one way or the other, but I think the tendencies are likely different if you’re older.
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My wife and I are both over 40. Her phone usage and mine are radically different.

I consume storage with a voracious appetite, she barely touches hers.
 
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My iPhone 11 is the 128 model. I have about 2500 songs which takes up about 15 GB. the rest is system files and apps, and I still have about 80 GB left. I will never get close to maxing out the storage. I think 128 is fine and the sweet spot for most people.
 
I'm 44; I purchased the 128Gb model because, although I don't have *tons* of apps (30 or so), and I don't take tons of videos (I'll take the occasional video as well as plenty of photos), I do listen to quite a bit of music, and even if I only loaded the stuff I've personally bought from CDs in the past, it'd still have been about 40Gb alone.
 
I'm 40, With a 256GB model, and that seems to be the sweet spot for me, I have about 100Gb of music alone, have a fair bit of books and apps. I do have a fair bit of gacha games (Fate G/O, Azur Lane, Girls Frontline, etc).
 
I’m 56 and always get the 256GB versions. Just checked and I’ve only used 87.4GB so 256GB suits me.
 
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