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Will 32 GB be enough? [MERGED]

Is 32 GB or go for 128 GB

  • 32 GB

    Votes: 15 46.9%

  • 128 GB

    Votes: 17 53.1%
  • Total voters
    32
Just picked up the 7 Monday. I've used 9.9 G and have 17.7 left. My photos use up 1.91 and that's about 700-800 photos. My music takes up 1.87 but I have very little music on it and no videos or movies. I don't have any gaming apps and most have social media apps: FB, twitter, tweetbot, periscope, FB Messenger and radio pup. I'm not really a power user. I hope my profile helps you decide.
 
After installing all my apps I have about 11gb left. I plan to download 3 to 4 gb more of music for the occasional listening-while-flying but other than that probably not much more to download. I have about 2.6gb of photos and video that I could always delete if I need more space since they're all up in the cloud already.

Overall, still feeling good about staying w/32gb. One caveat: I'm NOT a big games player on my phone. If I were, I would have gone for the 128 since games can really chew up storage.
 
i had the 64gb on my 6S and nearly ran out of space every time, i now got the 128gb 7 Plus and very happy i went with that size, i have 45gb free now after installing everything i want such as great apps and ebooks and its great that the capacity is no longer holding me back, it seems like most apps have certainly grown in size over previous years, even facebook now weights almost 1gb after you use it for a while because of its cache, same with snapchat etc
 
dsr2 said:
Just picked up the 7 Monday. I've used 9.9 G and have 17.7 left. My photos use up 1.91 and that's about 700-800 photos. My music takes up 1.87 but I have very little music on it and no videos or movies. I don't have any gaming apps and most have social media apps: FB, twitter, tweetbot, periscope, FB Messenger and radio pup. I'm not really a power user. I hope my profile helps you decide.
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WOW...Do people even look at 700 or 800 photos every few days or weeks/months on a phone?:confused:
 
Hello, i'm planning to buy a new phone, i don't store a lot of stuff and usually move the photos every 2-3 months

Is 32gb or is it going to be like the 16gb of today? (lots of popups etc)
 
For me it's all about internet availability.

That's why I need a lot of space on my iPhone and not a lot on my iPad.

Why? Because I cannot guarantee I'll always have internet access on my iPhone so I need to store music, photos, videos and so on offline.

With my iPad I know that I am only ever going to use it when I have a Wi-Fi connection and this means I can download everything I need on demand. Hence I can get by with a 32GB iPad very easily.

So, if you embrace iCloud and other off-device storage services and know that you will have internet access nearly all the time, and you don't expect to be taking lots of high resolution video or installing big apps, definitely go for the 32GB model.

Just my opinion. Most people here have quite a strong aversion to the lowest capacity models so I will probably be in the minority. :)
 
Brookzy said:
For me it's all about internet availability.

That's why I need a lot of space on my iPhone and not a lot on my iPad.

Why? Because I cannot guarantee I'll always have internet access on my iPhone so I need to store music, photos, videos and so on offline.

With my iPad I know that I am only ever going to use it when I have a Wi-Fi connection and this means I can download everything I need on demand. Hence I can get by with a 32GB iPad very easily.

So, if you embrace iCloud and other off-device storage services and know that you will have internet access nearly all the time, and you don't expect to be taking lots of high resolution video or installing big apps, definitely go for the 32GB model.

Just my opinion. Most people here have quite a strong aversion to the lowest capacity models so I will probably be in the minority. :)
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This. Only you know your habits. If you are using 16gb now and have plenty of space you should be good with 32gb. Oh and 32 is already the new 16 :)

Razer(x) said:
Currently using 12gb on my old Nexus 4 (that's the maximum)
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I was using an 8gb nexus just a little over a year ago :O
 
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I reserve 4GB of downloaded music via Apple Music for offline use and I use Google Photos for unlimited photo storage. I have 15GB free on a 32GB iPhone 7.

Works great for me.
 
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Razer(x) said:
Currently using 12gb on my old Nexus 4 (that's the maximum)
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So you are doubling you capacity. Still not good enough? You have not said anything about future/new use for the phone. U have not complained of running out of space on current phone.

Are you asking "if I go to a certain storage, will I break a certain mystical barrier, be more enlightened, become an audiophile..." the answer is No.
 
Razer(x) said:
Hello, i'm planning to buy a new phone, i don't store a lot of stuff and usually move the photos every 2-3 months

Is 32gb or is it going to be like the 16gb of today? (lots of popups etc)
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If you really don't store any media on there and you don't keep your photos on the phone for longer than a couple of months then 32GB should be plenty.
 
Mrbobb said:
So you are doubling you capacity. Still not good enough? You have not said anything about future/new use for the phone. U have not complained of running out of space on current phone.

Are you asking "if I go to a certain storage, will I break a certain mystical barrier, be more enlightened, become an audiophile..." the answer is No.
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It is probably enough, but i usually buy stuff for 2-3 years, so i want to be sure not to regret it

I will use the phone as i do now, browsing, messaging, photos. Photos / videos will probably occupy more space due to Live Photos and 4k
 
If iPhone 6s Plus has 256GB I would be supwr happy.
My 128 GB iPhone is already full thanks to loads of music and anime series.
 
I could make do if I had to. As it stands, I have 70gb free on my phone :p
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aPple nErd said:
this is apple's new form of greed. they did it with the 6 too. make it so that the base model is barely enough so that you have to buy the next level up. do i need 128gb? no, but i have to buy that one because i used about 45gb on my 64gb phone. greedy greedy greedy.
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lmao, 32gb is the same price as 16gb used to be. 128 is the same price as 64! you're paying the same price you paid for your 64gb!!!!!

some of you people, my god. Apple gives you double the storage for free and they're greedy. lo
 
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I have always bought 64 gb before and this time they ditched it so going for 128 GB (glad i am getting double storage this time on same price)
 
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I've met folks who only use the iPhone to make phone calls and text; the rest is little to no additional apps and maybe webbrowising. They'll use alternative storage (google photos, iCloud, flickr, Dropbox, etc) for their photos.

32 is decent...they can subscribe additional iCloud for 1-3 dollars a month and spread over a period of two years that adds up to $72 max.

I'm kinda glued to my phone and 64gb is enough...glad they doubled it this year though.
 
I may change my order to a matte black iPhone 7 Plus in matte black, how many photos, videos, apps and music can be stored on a 32gb model?

thanks
 
Use this catch-all term: it depends.
Apps can be as small as 5MB without much documents and data, or as large as 2GB including data.
Music can be as small as 5MB per song, or 60MB per song, assuming each song is 4:00 duration.
Video can be 3-4GB per movie or 1-2GB per TV show. Or all the way up to 20GB per BD movie, or even 498GB gigantic series.
 
That's really hard to tell as each of these files, regardless if it's an app a video or a photo or music, can have a different size. I have apps that are 30 MBs and some games between 3 and 4GBs...

1 GB can give you roughly 250 songs or so...


...If you're asking yourself if 32 GB is enough, then it probably isn't. ;)

Get the 128 if you can and you won't have to worry.
 
32GB is enough for my usage habits. I was starting to feel the pinch with the 16gb 6 and 6S.
 
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