Isn’t that what iCloud is for? Think of it this way. You’re spending and extra 10 a month for 256GB by to Dan get 200GB of iCloud storage for $2.99.
You totally missed my point.
iCloud is absolutely fine, as long as you have reliable wifi or cellular service. When you are away from home you don't necessarily have that.
I use the cloud and have spare space on my 64gb phone 90% of the time. I need my phone to be able to cater for the other 10% though.
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I understand the connectivity limitations, but do you really need all your music at all times? For example, my Spotify playlist contains 125 tracks = over 8 hours of music saved to the phone. This takes up a comfortable 1,05 GB of storage. As for photos & videos, I guess if you take lots before syncing them to the cloud... But then again, with the new HEIC/HEIV formats they take less space. Different usage needs/habits, I guess.
I certainly don't need all my music on my phone, but I like to have a decent selection available. If I am going away I will download a thousand tracks or so. I can get through quite a bit of music when I'm out and about. Thats about 5-10gb used up. I would certainly not want to be stuck with just 125 songs for a period of time.
Yes, I am taking quite a few pictures before syncing to the cloud. That's what happens when you don't have reliable internet connections. You only need to take a few videos and they can be stuck on the phone for a while.
I'd say that about 50% of the time when I go away I start to push right up to the 64gb. On a few occasions I have had to start deleting music etc in order to free us space. To avoid that, paying the extra £150 for the larger storage is money well spent.
It is certainly down to individual needs and habits. Different people have different requirements, and reliable wifi or cellular connectivity at all times makes a big difference. We don't all have that though.
For the record, 128gb would have done the job fine for me. 64gb has proved to be too little though.
