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Which memory option did you choose when buying your iPhone and why?
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64gb. 16 is too small. 64 gives me more room than I need though. 32 would be perfect for my usage.
Can never have too much money, good looks, or memory. At least I have the memory. 128GB
128gb. Because I wanted 128gb. Don't care whether I needed it or not.
I picked 64GB 6S. I don't pick the 16GB simply because I want some breathing room, yet at the same time, I don't want to spend that much money for 128GB, considering I would probably upgrade my phone first before fully utilizing all that storage space.
For iPads on the other hand, I would opt for the max size simply due to the utility of it (I would load my iPad with videos).
For iPads on the other hand, I would opt for the max size simply due to the utility of it (I would load my iPad with videos).
128GB. All my music, audiobooks and comics are stored on my device. I don't really stream anything.
Year after year I always bought the iphone with the most memory, that's till this year. I decided to go down the cloud storage route. I decided to do this because no iPhone could store all my music anyways; its 350Gb's in total. I keep all my pictures & videos highly organized in google drive and keep my music uploaded on google music. I'm paying $10 monthly for 1TB of google drive space and $10 for google music. I feel that's the best solution for me. I now don't need to worry about my pics getting deleted and my music is safely stored away at the google servers. I went with google drive because its cheaper than apple and because google music allows 50,000 song uploads. Now I easily can get away with 64GB's. All that space is mostly used up by just apps. I most likely will always get the 64Gb model now.
The trouble is that the future is a new phone, not insufficient memory. I, too, went 128, but I see the folly of it every day. By the time I need more memory, I will long ago have upgraded the phone itself. Apple is seeing to that with iOS updates that slow down older hardware.
As others have said, 64GB is the sweet spot currently. Big enough to not worry about app sizes and taking photos and videos. But not too big that I would feel I wasted money on something I didn't need. I stream all my music, even my owned music, and use Google Photos to keep photos/videos in the cloud as well. I think my average storage size on the phone has dropped from about 30GB in previous phones, to about 20GB nowadays.
I always go for the biggest memory available. So it would be 128 GB. I tried the 64 GB and I only end up with around 30 GB of available space, which is enough but I feel like I need a bit more available space. With the 128 GB storage space. I have about 88GB of space left.
If the next iPhone comes with 256 GB and is at the same price, I might go for that.
If the next iPhone comes with 256 GB and is at the same price, I might go for that.
