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Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by mwexler »

Dunno, I find that Photos aren't that hard to manage for me as I don't take too many and delete bad ones quickly (though only through a Windows File Explorer; hard to mount into other programs) but I ALWAYS appear to have a 3GB "Other" space in my phone (according to iTunes) that I can't seem to shrink. It's the only reason I want to jailbreak my phone, to get in there and see just what's in there.

I'm sure I'd fill up that space with apps and photos, and be right back where I started... but at least I could try to manage it, vs. just staring and wondering...

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by wlesieutre »

daigoba66 wrote: post #11
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.

My cynical view is that this is a way to increase the price of the iPhone without it seeming like it. For example, in the past I've always purchased the "base" model. First 8GB then 16GB. But now, for me, 16GB is probably 1/2 my ideal storage size, so I'd probably purchase the more expensive 64GB model. The new "base" model is effectively $100 more expensive.

I was in the same boat. Instead of buying an iPhone 6, I saved $250 (500 vs 750) and got a Z3 Compact instead.

It's not perfect (the camera is garbage in low light), but it has a MicroSD slot, fits in my hand, and costs a lot less. And I can pick what app I want to use for web browsing, mailto: links, maps, etc.

I'm betting Apple finally concedes default apps in iOS 9, but I don't see them ever adding expandable storage.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by jeremyswank »

baldfat wrote: post #19
scrumper wrote: post #14

You can turn on iCloud Photo Library (Beta) which does pretty much exactly this - keeps low-res images on the phone and keeps the high res original in iCloud. (Since it's an Apple cloud-based storage product I don't trust it completely, so I also have Dropbox Photo Sync). Don't really understand what the Steve Jobs email is doing in there either.

Why don't you use Google+ photos? It really is the best thing ever and your photos never count against your storage. You get unlimited photos backup on you can just delete any photos on your phone and just look them up on Google+ which has the best photo search ever and also has albums, edit and folders.

does it have an option not to make the photos public?

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by baldfat »

berberous wrote: post #12
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.

Almost everyone I know was bumping up to the 16GB limit on their iPhones, largely because by this point people have 2-4 years worth of photos on their devices. If Apple moved to 32/64/128, nearly everyone would have gotten the base model. Instead, for the first time ever, people like myself, and even my mother, decided to bump up to the next tier, which is not only plenty of room for most, but 4x the storage instead…

My wife burns through 2 gigs a month with photos.

The actual profits for making people pay so much for 64 gigs is crazy.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by yellowbkpk »

jeremyswank wrote: post #23
baldfat wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you use Google+ photos? It really is the best thing ever and your photos never count against your storage. You get unlimited photos backup on you can just delete any photos on your phone and just look them up on Google+ which has the best photo search ever and also has albums, edit and folders.

does it have an option not to make the photos public?

The default is to not make your photos public.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by dhm »

daigoba66 wrote: post #11
ceejayoz wrote: post #4

The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.

My cynical view is that this is a way to increase the price of the iPhone without it seeming like it. For example, in the past I've always purchased the "base" model. First 8GB then 16GB. But now, for me, 16GB is probably 1/2 my ideal storage size, so I'd probably purchase the more expensive 64GB model. The new "base" model is effectively $100 more expensive.

I think it's a huge hit to their brand image with consumers if this is true, because they haven't sold woefully underprovisioned current-model-year iPhones before, at least that I can recall.

I have heard the argument that they offer the smaller storage devices for institutional bulk purchase (think high school iPads with a narrower range of use cases and a managed and/or limited base of installed software), but if that's the case they should stop offering those models to consumers in general.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by azurelogic »

This article is ignorant in so many ways.

1) Apple did see this problem coming. See iCloud Photo Library.

2) Before smartphones, we had digital cameras, and what did we have to do with them? That's right, we took out the card and copied the photos to our computers. Just because your smartphone acts like a computer doesn't mean that you should treat it the same. Copy. Organize. Curate. Sync. Done.

3) What does one of your people's opinion of the iTunes logo have to do with the price of tea in China? Moreover, it cements the impetuous and immature tone of the article. Whining "look at me" is not how to get things done. Grow up and prove yourself.

Ladies and gentlemen, please think before you blog.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by brador »

The limitation on Apple storage is a bad business decision in my opinion. Once my storage got full I simply stopped buying apps unless absolutely necessary. Before that I purchased everything I could find that looked mildly interesting.

It also means I never buy movies from Apple because there is simply no space on the device to download to.

IMO bad business decision.

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