No More 64GB Storage - iPhones Now Start With 128GB

[qumoporo]

You could convince me that they were posting this in 2017. Absolutely ridiculous that 128 is the minimum offer now. Should be 256, especially at the price point they are selling it for

 

[segfaultdotorg]

256GB should be the minimum on a premium modern smartphone.

 

[Compote]

That supposed to be a good thing ? It only means 128 is the new "not enough broken on arrival".

 

[abcmax]

I bought iPhone 11 Pro almost 6 years ago with 256 GB storage. The storage was enough for few years, but one day my photos and videos have taken all of the space and I had to keep original photos and videos in iCloud only. And now I use only 80-90 GB of storage.

So, for me 128 GB is absolutely enough with photos stored in iCloud, 512 GB is minimum when I want to keep original photos on the device.

 

[iSee]

Where there a lot of people who didn't know how to click the 128GB button when ordering?

It's kind of funny how people here get offended when options exist that they don't want. Um... you haven't been limited to 64GB for a pretty long time now.

 

[racerhomie]

Not always slow storage. eMMC is still used on some phones, but not as often anymore.

UFS is still nowhere as fast and reliable as NVMe as well

 

[bousozoku]

I have 3 iphone SEs, SE2 and SE3s and the thing I don't like about them is that certain apps and web pages don't work right because the screen is so tiny.

For example I was trying to apply gift cards on my Target wallet on the app but couldn't because the screen was too small. I used the Target app on my wife's iphone 13 and it worked fine.

Never had such a problem with the iPhone 7, 8, 2020 SE, or 2022 SE and the Target app.

A few games were cut off because the artwork was for a 16:9 ratio, not 4:3.

 

[Applewatch42]

AW with 32GB question mark?

 

[Cod3rror]

You could convince me that they were posting this in 2017. Absolutely ridiculous that 128 is the minimum offer now. Should be 256, especially at the price point they are selling it for

128GB should not not exist in 2025, but so far it lingers on. As long as Apple keeps 128GB, all the copycats will do too.

Maybe iPhone 17 will finally start from 256GB; it should be the minimum now.

 

[quietstormSD]

An extra 64GB is hardly worth the additional $170 difference.

 

[brofkand]

UFS is still nowhere as fast and reliable as NVMe as well

In a $200 phone probably true, but UFS can be just as fast if not faster than NVMe.

 

[gustaw94]

Ehem, iCloud still has 5 GB for free

 

[lyceumHQ]

And iCloud still only offers 5gb free to back that phone up.

 

[csnwbd2251]

256GB should be the minimum on a premium modern smartphone.

256GB??? Are you kidding?? We need 1TB minimum and a nano-texture screen for $100 more... 🙃

 

[Starfia]

What I find gross is that the Pro phones start with the same amount of storage.

And the same amount of whether they can make calls. It's nauseating.

 

[maxoakland]

Too bad they also raised the price by 40% compared to the SE. It's so expensive for a low end model!

 

[racerhomie]

In a $200 phone probably true, but UFS can be just as fast if not faster than NVMe.

Not true, NVMe is a desktop standard, while UFS is not. And Apple uses higher quality NAND chips as well. These 2 combined make it better than UFS. An iPhone 6S from 2015, first with NVMe is still a usable device , compared to any UFS device from that time period.

 

[noanker]

The sensible move would have been to increase the base storage ages ago—proactively, like a company that actually plans ahead. They still would have raked in the profits from the price hike, and let’s be real, they’re already swimming in cash. I’d love to get my hands on a BOM for their current lineup because I’d bet those profit margins are downright obscene.

But no, they only budged on base storage because Apple Intelligence demands a ton of space. The thought process was probably something like: "Let’s bump up storage, slap on a hefty price tag, and when those tariffs hit—cha-ching! And the cherry on top? We get to act like we did consumers a favor."

 

[green_diyos]

When will Apple start offering base model Macs at 512GB storage for today's price points?

 

[Ted_Appleseed]

I remember back in 2014-16, 128GB was the luxury model. I lost my iPhone 6s 128GB back then, and my roommate was making fun of me for losing a "128GB iPhone." It's a bad story, but I still miss the old days! Time goes!

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/04/iphone-6-128gb/

 

[neuropsychguy]

As cheap as storage is, every phone in the Apple ecosystem should have a minimum of 256GB.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to make a comment like this. Not very long.

 

[brofkand]

Not true, NVMe is a desktop standard, while UFS is not. And Apple uses higher quality NAND chips as well. These 2 combined make it better than UFS. An iPhone 6S from 2015, first with NVMe is still a usable device , compared to any UFS device from that time period.

UFS 4, in use in the Samsung S24 and later, is faster than NVMe.

 

[jblank]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to make a comment like this. Not very long.

So you disagree? With the advent of AI on phones, apps getting larger and larger, and storage being dirt cheap, why should the consumer be all smiles about 128GB phones?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

So you disagree? With the advent of AI on phones, apps getting larger and larger, and storage being dirt cheap, why should the consumer be all smiles about 128GB phones?

Idk about “all smiles” but for the majority of people who just use social media and web browsing and regular phone functions 128 GB is fine.
More would obviously be better, but even with Apple Intelligence enabled iOS rarely uses more than 15 GB.
My phone has 256 and I’ve barely used 90.

 

[delsoul]

Why would anyone buy this when the Google Pixel is $649 and comes with 7 years of updates and security, 120hz screen, 12gb of ram, and 24+ hours of battery life. For $50
More, it’s a MUCH better value. Apple and Tim Cook really blew it on the iPhone 16e. Truly a shame