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iPhone 13 Pro Max A question no one knows…

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ouruniverse06131986

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A question not even the one at the Apple store could answer.

so, we all know whatever size a hard drive says it has we all know that a few gigs gets taken out. Obviously.

at the Apple store I ask how much space does the 1TB iPhone actually has. The dude told me it actually has 1TB which I didn’t believe.

so, I’m asking any of you :

how much space does the iPhone 1TB actually has?

if yous want to post screenshots.
Thanks yous in advance
 
How much? Apple always display the amount they advertise. 1TB will say 1TB in the settings app.

“Taken out” has two meanings: 1000 vs 1024 and SSD over-provision. Former is just calculation bs that doesn’t matter. Second lies on manufacturer and I have no definitive answer if apple will do it.

iOS and some random system stuff will usually takes away 8GB to 20GB out of the box. So there is that.
 
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screenshot of my about page. iPhone 13 pro max

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When I bought the 512GB 11 pro max it came with 496? I think.

one last stupid question.
So the 1TB actually DOES DOES DOES has 1.02?
 
Even with that screenshot showing 1.02TB, as another poster said, the OS will take up maybe 5-20GB, so a brand new fresh out the box 1TB device will likely have around 980-995GB of available storage for the user to use.
 
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Ok, I want to thank each and every one of you for your answers. Right now I’m drunk as hell. But, I want you each and every one of you to know that I’m thankful for your replies. So thanks yous again. I appreciate it.
 
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Shirasaki said:
Dunno why you are so worried about this, and recent iOS 15 storage display bug on iPhone ain’t gonna be helpful, but 1TB is 1TB, and you can’t use all of them anyways.
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Hes just wondering if 1TB is enough or if he has to wait for the 2TB version;)
 
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Well there are actually two definitions of terabyte, decimal and binary (aka tebibyte)

The decimal definition is 1000 to the power of four = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
The binary definition is 1024 to the power of four = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
So 1TB (decimal) = 0.91TB (binary)

Apple and just about everyone nowadays uses the decimal definition for storage. From Apple's footnotes:
Screen Shot 2021-10-09 at 5.02.56 PM.png

However, memory (not storage) typically uses the binary definition.

This is what can cause some confusion about MB, GB, TB being reported (in binary) as less than claimed (in decimal).

Byte - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
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ouruniverse06131986 said:
Exactly, cause obviously there’ll be a 2TB iPhone
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I mean yeah eventually there will be 2TB iPhone But 2TB is twice the amount of 1TB so dunno why 1.02TB (which is more than likely a display error) suddenly could become enough. That 20MB aint gonna work magic.

But you do you do. No pressure.
 
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