• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    On my iPhone it’s more like:

    • 5GB downloaded podcasts
    • 4GB offline maps
    • 2GB photos
    • 2GB music
    • 1GB health data
    • 1GB messages
    • The core operating system uses about 10GB
    • About 10GB of or so of other stuff.

    In total, I’m using a bit over 30GB.

    I had to delete so much stuff.

    The thing is, an iPhone does that for you.

    My full photo library is huge — terabytes, and i have a bunch of large apps (especially games) on my phone that I never play - it automatically removes them but leaves the icon in the launcher. It’ll simply re-download them if you do tap the game. And if the game is well designed, it won’t be a single download - it’ll be a minimal download for the game then within the game each level or area of the game will be downloaded separately as you play.

    I have a 64GB phone, and the storage management makes sure I have 20GB or more of free plenty space for large video recordings, software updates, etc etc. If I had a 2TB iPhone, I’d probably have the same 20GB or so of free space since my photo library is that big.

    I guess it would be nice to be able to look at a photo I took six years ago and not have to wait a tenth of a second for it to download. But I’m not willing to pay for that. Even if more storage cost 10 bucks, I wouldn’t be willing to pay.