My point exactly. Everyone is different.
I live where internet and phone data are very unreliable and slow so it's either have it on your phone or do without.
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Is 16GB really that bad?
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My point exactly. Everyone is different.
I live where internet and phone data are very unreliable and slow so it's either have it on your phone or do without.
Yeah.. But I like my headphones lol. I want the 6s plus actually. I'm convinced that I should just such it up and get the 64 gb and apple can steal my 100 for storage they should have already provided as the base model :'(
I have a 16gb 6s plus and yes, go for the 64gb if you can afford it. I only have about 34 apps. No music downloaded, no videos, no pictures and only have 2.77gb of storage left. I store all my pics online via the google photos app and delete them off the iphone.
64gb. Get it without hesitation. 16gb is bad and will only get worse in the long haul. I sometimes wish to sell my Xiaomi because it only had 12gb avail and no expandable storage space. But it is ok since my LG and Moto carry all my media anyway thanks to the $20 64gb sd inside them.
I have about 5gb of music. 1440 songs and bit rate is only at 128. My photos are over 3000+ and at 5gb as well. Some 200+ photos in recent albums have nearly 1gb capacity. If you plan to take alot of photos, it is mandatory to go higher since Apple doesn't let you change the MP setting. Photos can be like 4mb in size or higher. Some of my photos especially in daylight are as big as my songs.
Minimum for me should be 32gb. Take account what you value most with media.
Storage Wasters
1. Videos, esp in movies in HD (800mb-2gb)
2. Games (some go from 1-3gb)
3. Apps (10mb-50mb or higher)
4. Music (depends on the bit rate, 4mb)
5. Photos (5mb or less)
Then you have to think ahead for future photos taken and software updates that eat up space. You also should not dip below a certain amount of space. If I go under 1gb with storage left, my device will slow down.
Just get 64gb and thank me later.
I have about 5gb of music. 1440 songs and bit rate is only at 128. My photos are over 3000+ and at 5gb as well. Some 200+ photos in recent albums have nearly 1gb capacity. If you plan to take alot of photos, it is mandatory to go higher since Apple doesn't let you change the MP setting. Photos can be like 4mb in size or higher. Some of my photos especially in daylight are as big as my songs.
Minimum for me should be 32gb. Take account what you value most with media.
Storage Wasters
1. Videos, esp in movies in HD (800mb-2gb)
2. Games (some go from 1-3gb)
3. Apps (10mb-50mb or higher)
4. Music (depends on the bit rate, 4mb)
5. Photos (5mb or less)
Then you have to think ahead for future photos taken and software updates that eat up space. You also should not dip below a certain amount of space. If I go under 1gb with storage left, my device will slow down.
Just get 64gb and thank me later.
If you intend to use your iPhone as a phone and browsing device only then 16gb is perfectly fine.
if you are a 87 year old grandma then 11gb (it's not 16 it's 11) will work perfect for you
, just make sure the only thing you use your phone for is checking your mail and occasionally browsing the internetIts all about your usage, if you planing to use it as camera - music player - media consumption, big chance 16GB will be to small, unless you don’t mind once in a while transferring your pics and videos to your computer or cloud service.
As a 16GB iPhone owner im still having 8GB free and i never run out of space. Mind you i don’t store giant vids\music\pics library or 100s of apps, so you can guess whats my main usage are…
As a 16GB iPhone owner im still having 8GB free and i never run out of space. Mind you i don’t store giant vids\music\pics library or 100s of apps, so you can guess whats my main usage are…
My wife and I both have 16g 5s iphones and are getting along ok. However, we don't store high quantity of pictures or videos on our phones. Having said that, we are bumping up against being full and will not be buying 16g phones again. Minimum will be 32g and most likely 64g.
So higher storage models are faster? What?
That is no longer true. Updates are also not a problem anymore. If you update via iTunes, then the space on your phone does not matter. Since iOS 9, over-the-air updates are heavily compressed and the system can delete some big, unused apps for you temporarily while retaining your data, afterwards it downloads them again for you.
They can be that big, but very, very few are that big. I'd wager that most games are under 500 MB, perhaps under 300 MB. This is only getting better as more modern games take advantage of on-demand resources and app slicing.
16 GB is perfectly manageable and the device will remove caches automatically as you run out of space. However, for a device that expensive, the 16 GB is not a good deal and 64 GB is definitely a smarter option in terms of value for money.
Or many other people of many other ages.if you are a 87 year old grandma then 11gb (it's not 16 it's 11) will work perfect for you
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Or a perfectly fine and functional device for plenty of people.
I have 16gb, and it's fine, but not ideal. I'm diligent about cleaning the data and doing a wipe and restore, though. More out of necessity because I have a 16gb phone. As others said, I stream all of my music, and I have photos backup to iCloud. I'm happy that the next phone will have 32gb as the minimum storage.
I ran on 16Gb versions of the 3GS and iPhone 5 for three years each with no problem at all. Only had a 64gb 6S because i was in a position to pay the extra to have one. My other half ran an 8Gb iPhone 4 and is on a 16gb 5S and never had an issue. For every user that fills their phone up with all sorts of games, other big apps, loads of videos etc etc there will be folk who get their iPhone subsidised with their network plan and just use it for calls, messaging, social network stuff, browsing and the odd photo\video here and there and 16gb is plenty for them.
My iPhone 6s is doing just fine with 16 GB of memory. My other iPhones I had the past had 16 GB of memory and I did just fine with them as well. Some photographs some music, not very much of it, and I do not play games since I'm not a kid anymore. And why would I play games on the stupid small screen phone anyway?
If you're not a horder of pictures and videos, 16GB iPhone is ok. You'll eventually wish it was bigger though for sure.
If you keep a tidy ship and toss out old crap (Messages), 16 is ok. But a year (or sooner) after you get the phone you'll wish you got the 64.
If you get a 16, download a video compression app. It can save you a ton of space if you like to keep videos.
Personally, I toss almost everything once I get bored w it.
If you keep a tidy ship and toss out old crap (Messages), 16 is ok. But a year (or sooner) after you get the phone you'll wish you got the 64.
If you get a 16, download a video compression app. It can save you a ton of space if you like to keep videos.
Personally, I toss almost everything once I get bored w it.
I've been in your position, and I've found that 16GB is good enough to get by. However, even with only a few albums, one or two videos and a handful of audiobooks on my iPhone, I really do find myself bugged by close-to-out-of-space warnings. I'm shuffling that content frequently; I can almost never afford not to think about just leaving something on it that I'm finished consuming.
If it's your main device, I'd say you're at least right to consider spending the extra $100, especially if you're weighing against the value of what it feels like to use your device for at least two years.
If it's your main device, I'd say you're at least right to consider spending the extra $100, especially if you're weighing against the value of what it feels like to use your device for at least two years.
16GB seems pretty futile in 2016, considering the advancements in phones and apps.. Sure there is a small portion of people out there who only use their iPhones for text/email/phone. But I would assume that 16GB would end up being too little for most users these days that use apps, record video, take photos, listen to music, play games, etc. 32GB should really be the starting option for iPhones.
While I agree that for users that do more photography and/or videos and store more media on their phones as well as use more apps 16 GB would be a hassle to deal with, I think there might be some underestimation involved as far as the more typical group of iPhone users that use the device for calls, messaging, email, some social networking, news, sports, and weather (basically only needing a handful of apps), with perhaps some limited photography and the like.
They more quickly access the data you left on your PC becaus eyou couldn't load it on your phone.
16gb iPhone isn't the best. I remember I was constantly deleting apps and music from my phone just to put a few things back on there. I have a 64gb iPhone 6 now and I'm at 39.8gb. Really wish Apple would've made a 32gb model, I'm sure that would be enough for me.
My mom has a 32GB iPhone (5 then 5s) and has complained in the past that she couldn't keep all the photos and videos she took on her phone whenever I needed to offload those (videos primarily) to Dropbox. Barely any apps, no local music (she uses Pandora). In fairness, 32GB is sufficient for more than 3 years worth of pics. It's just the videos it couldn't handle. Interestingly enough, I initially thought she would be a good candidate for 16GB. Just glad I got her a more spacious model. She's since been upgraded to an iPhone SE 64GB.
Imho, 16GB may have been fine in the old days when iOS was only around 1GB and you were left with ~14GB storage, 50MB apps were considered big and the phone only had a 2MP camera. Nowadays, both iPhones and iPads are long overdue for a storage upgrade at the entry level. Given they've finally gotten rid of the "free" 8GB iPhone models, 32GB base models are probably coming soon.
Imho, 16GB may have been fine in the old days when iOS was only around 1GB and you were left with ~14GB storage, 50MB apps were considered big and the phone only had a 2MP camera. Nowadays, both iPhones and iPads are long overdue for a storage upgrade at the entry level. Given they've finally gotten rid of the "free" 8GB iPhone models, 32GB base models are probably coming soon.