Other iPhone Upgrade Storage Space Carryover Debt… fresh phone or copy everything over with each upgrade?

[Starfyre]

As the topic states, do you always transfer everything from your old phone to new when you upgrade? Seems like storage space just constantly goes up and higher capacities are needed. Smaller capacities seem possible on newer iPhones only if you ignore carrying over all the texts, photos, and videos. A new iPhone that is 256GB could realistically only have say 30GB of space if transferring from your old phone.

What is your approach to maximizing storage on your phone (not transfer some things over, backup some things) or do you just transfer everything from old and either just get higher capacity or start deleting stuff?

 

[sjperformance]

Always transfer everything from previous device to new. The norm for me for the past many years. No issues on my end.

 

[Shirasaki]

I always use the latest iCloud backup, which is originated from a backup I created about 10 years ago, and I just iterate as time goes on till today. No obvious issue noted. If there’s not enough storage, I just buy higher capacity devices. Yes, expensive but saves time on micromanaging storage.

 

[ericwn]

I usually start fresh with a new phone, but tend to carry over on iPads. I like the experience of starting with a empty device and then loading what I need on it over time.

 

[sjperformance]

I always use the latest iCloud backup, which is originated from a backup I created about 10 years ago, and I just iterate as time goes on till today. No obvious issue noted. If there’s not enough storage, I just buy higher capacity devices. Yes, expensive but saves time on micromanaging storage.

Yup. My iCloud backup originated many years ago.