New iPhone 16 Pro 2TB Storage Option: All the Rumors In Favor

[JungeQuex]

I’m redundantly backing things up as well, but that’s just what a backup is. A backup. It’s not the primary storage. Once something is off your phone’s camera roll you lose easy access to it, and there is no getting it back to where it came from.

Yeah. I don’t care about any of that.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I think unless you shoot a LOT of high-definition video, 512 GB local storage is more than enough for most end users. And that's with a lot of music, a good amount of photos and several audiobooks.

 

[Velli]

There you go. And mind you, this phone only has 30gb of photos/video. Actually I just finally went through my photo library and deleted things and moved to external HDD/backup because I was just shy of 15gb to full. Also erased around 30gigs just of imessage attachments.
Also Just deleted YouTube Music which that also was around 20-30gigs. Sometimes I download podcasts for studying later.

"Synced Media" is lossless music, and that's only very basic, like a majority of 2020-2021 albums and the rest classics that are not on streaming, it's fat from being my "entire library". Heck, if I was going out every night and shoot videos & pics like in 2010, then the 1TB phone would close enough as well.

I know I am a niche, but in circa 2020 when I noticed my streaming media subscriptions are over $1000/year, PER YEAR. including 1TB iClouds and after getting tired of buggy UIs, downloaded songs not working even when offline downloaded, albums disappearing due to licensing, I decided I had enough of streaming. All of a sudden a $1700 1TB iPhone didn't feel that expensive anymore, that you can keep for years and don't have to worry about monthly fees.
Ever since, I cannot emphasize enough how satisfying & "peaceful" to have your (personal) media locally and just savour a music album like in the iPod days.

As you can see, 80-100gbs is just apps, About says I have 237 apps. Sure, I don't use all of them, I've been using the same back-up dating back to my (first) iPhone 4, so things have been piling up.

Actually, I do not understand how people these days live with 128gb phones, when even basic apps take around 500MB-1gb.
Actually here is a 16gb 6S on latest supported 15.8.3 I have just restored yesterday to factory, a literally empty phone, WhatsApp has just 1 chat, no attachements, over 200MBs. So basically a 16GB iPhone is actually a 4GB iPhone 2G in 2024 lololz.


P.S. with large storage phones, you don't have to worry every month to delete things and babysit your phone like most of my friends do. It's again a peace of mind that's very welcomed (for me).

I do appreciate your choices. This is why we have options. I don’t babysit my phone at all, just mainly use cloud and streaming. I do have around 25 gigs of offline music for airplane travel, not worried about lossless when travelling though. That brings me up to just under 100 gig total. I have a 256 gig phone, I used to have a 128 which was still enough, but didn’t feel comfortable to be that close to full so that did require some nursing. For me, 256 is enough that I don’t have to think about it.

 

[GuilleA]

So now I need to constantly carry around an SSD with my phone too? interesting take

Most likely you’re already carrying a lot more than a small SSD anyway.

 

[AVBeatMan]

I had the 512GB Pro Max this year but got nowhere near it. Think I'll be going back to 256 with the 16.

 

[MrRom92]

Most likely you’re already carrying a lot more than a small SSD anyway.

Not really. Just my wallet and keys, two things that could also be entirely replaced by my phone in the not too distant future. I don’t want to carry more than I absolutely need to, if I try to leave the house with any less it’s probably a misdemeanor.

 

[allenvanhellen]

It’s easy to pay for a battery replacement. It’s just that the value of that is subjective, as is the value of storage upgrades and the practicality of carrying around an external drive—some may say that is ridiculous.

Only until Apple obsoletes your device.

 

[GuilleA]

Not really. Just my wallet and keys, two things that could also be entirely replaced by my phone in the not too distant future. I don’t want to carry more than I absolutely need to, if I try to leave the house with any less it’s probably a misdemeanor.

Oh, ok. My original point was regarding content creators that are always carrying tripods, gimbals, batteries. An SSD wouldn’t be a lot more to add to the mix.

 

[macfacts]

Hmm do Android phones appear as drives when connected

Yes

 

[fatTribble]

Alas, we have to continue to live in the dark ages of 1TB 😩