I have a Photos Library that is about 400gb in size.
I’ve used an iPhone SE 128gb for the last six years.
So, at some point I went beyond the amount of storage on the device, and chose “optimise iPhone storage“, so that lots of photos and videos are now stored (and backed up) in iCloud. (I’m on a 2TB iCloud storage plan.)
I’d like to get an iPhone 12 mini, but am wondering whether to pick 128gb or 256gb in storage.
Even the 256gb iPhone 12 wouldn’t be able to hold all my Photos stuff. If I chose an iPhone 13, I would have the option of 512gb, but over time it would probably not be enough to hold all my Photos stuff anyway. (And going from a 12 mini with 128gb-256gb to a 13 mini with 512gb would be quite a big jump in cost.)
Is there some kind of reason -when I choose the “optimised iPhone storage” option and have a Photos library backup in iCloud- that it would still be wiser to get the 256gb option instead of the 128gb option? Once something like “optimise iPhone storage” and “iCloud photos library backup” is used, does it really make any difference?
Are there people who perhaps have deliberately chosen /less/ storage when getting a new iPhone? (Not because they had lots of unused space, but precisely the opposite. Because, suppose you have a 600+gb photos library, it doesn’t really matter whether you device is 100gb short in storage, or 500gb short?)
(I’ve heard that certain features on the Pro iPhones have been limited to iPhones with at least 256gb in storage? So that’s a general consideration, but not applicable to my situation.)
Thanks!
I’ve used an iPhone SE 128gb for the last six years.
So, at some point I went beyond the amount of storage on the device, and chose “optimise iPhone storage“, so that lots of photos and videos are now stored (and backed up) in iCloud. (I’m on a 2TB iCloud storage plan.)
I’d like to get an iPhone 12 mini, but am wondering whether to pick 128gb or 256gb in storage.
Even the 256gb iPhone 12 wouldn’t be able to hold all my Photos stuff. If I chose an iPhone 13, I would have the option of 512gb, but over time it would probably not be enough to hold all my Photos stuff anyway. (And going from a 12 mini with 128gb-256gb to a 13 mini with 512gb would be quite a big jump in cost.)
Is there some kind of reason -when I choose the “optimised iPhone storage” option and have a Photos library backup in iCloud- that it would still be wiser to get the 256gb option instead of the 128gb option? Once something like “optimise iPhone storage” and “iCloud photos library backup” is used, does it really make any difference?
Are there people who perhaps have deliberately chosen /less/ storage when getting a new iPhone? (Not because they had lots of unused space, but precisely the opposite. Because, suppose you have a 600+gb photos library, it doesn’t really matter whether you device is 100gb short in storage, or 500gb short?)
(I’ve heard that certain features on the Pro iPhones have been limited to iPhones with at least 256gb in storage? So that’s a general consideration, but not applicable to my situation.)
Thanks!