iPhone 13 mini Photo Library Clean Up

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I have seen a lot of discussion on here about 128 GB of storage being too little for iPhones in light of tomorrow's announcement.

My Photo library is about 100 GB and goes back as far as 2004 (and was created with iPhoto!). I use iCloud Photos' offloading feature, but I still clean up all the stupid/failed photos in my library every so often.

Are people really blowing past 128GB that easily? Am I an oddball who goes back through and cleans their photo library up? I can't imagine having multi-hundred GB libraries that require a minimum of 256 GB of storage, especially with iCloud offloading... it's kind of shocking to me!

 

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I have seen a lot of discussion on here about 128 GB of storage being too little for iPhones in light of tomorrow's announcement.

My Photo library is about 100 GB and goes back as far as 2004 (and was created with iPhoto!). I use iCloud Photos' offloading feature, but I still clean up all the stupid/failed photos in my library every so often.

Are people really blowing past 128GB that easily? Am I an oddball who goes back through and cleans their photo library up? I can't imagine having multi-hundred GB libraries that require a minimum of 256 GB of storage, especially with iCloud offloading... it's kind of shocking to me!

I agree. I have used about 70GB of my 128GB. Photos upload to iCloud and Google Photos (Google One). I delete photos I do not want to keep soon after taking them. Course, quite a few folks seem to bask in having hundreds of unread emails.

 

[kanga1622]

I spent hours this weekend cleaning up my photos and messages. Went from 123 GB to 94 GB used on my phone. Probably a decent amount more photos can go once the hubby takes a look at all the random things he has in photos that he no longer needs and we reduce the vacation photos from this year.

I don’t let Apple optimize the photos for me so I have to go back through and chuck photos that are almost identical. I usually do that every year but hadn’t done it in a long time. At least once a month I delete the obvious one time needed photos but hubby takes a lot of photos for work and forgets to delete them unless I push.

 

[eyoungren]

Are people really blowing past 128GB that easily?

No.

iPhone 11 Pro Max (512GB), iPhone 6s Plus (128GB), iPhone 6 Plus (128GB), iPhone 5 (64GB)



I have a 2TB iCloud sub. But that is for convenience. All my photos are backed up to Dropbox, which I have a 4.1TB sub for.

Aside from pictures and the message database, everything else on my device is stored off the device.

PS. I always buy the max capacity Apple offers when I get a new iPhone.

 

[Doug Vann]

I think that deleting unwanted photos is something we probably all need to do......

 

[eyoungren]

I think that deleting unwanted photos is something we probably all need to do......

Need? I disagree. Should? Maybe.

I don't have the library of photos everyone else does, but I do have pictures that go back to my 2009 HTC Touch Pro.

Between the 20+ computers I have at home, the large and numerous hard drives/SSDs they contain, the large storage on the NAS device I have, the iCloud and Dropbox subs I have (not to mention Google Photos as well) and all my devices with loads of storage - I can afford to not delete 'unwanted' photos.

On my Mac Pro there is 16TB of storage alone - between 4 drives. I struggle to use the all the storage I already have.