calebt
Well-known member
If you can swing it go for the extra space you might not need it now, but its good to know its there if you need it.
I've never owned an iPhone before, but I'm contemplating getting a 16 GB iPhone 6.
But after browsing the forums, it seems everyone is purchasing either 64 or 128 GB devices. And stories like this iPhone 6 Specs: Is 16GB useless on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus? | BGR are scaring me.
I realize everyone's needs are different, but is the 16 GB version as unusable as stories like this make it sound?
I've owned a 32 GB Android for two years now, and yet even now have only accumulated about 5 GB of my own stuff, including apps, leaving about 21 GB empty all this time. So I'm assuming 16 GB would suit me fine as I don't download games, I only have a few dozen songs, etc.
I'm not familiar with iOS though: do I need extra device space to upgrade iOS if I do it via iTunes? Does iOS itself use a lot of space?
Does anyone here have the 16 GB version? If so, has the smaller capacity caused you any problems?
I have 5 gigs of music on my 16GB and I only store significant photos which is only so far 3 on my phone. The 16GB works fine for me. I'm not one of those people who store music that they don't really listen to. I don't store photos that I don't really look back on or don't show to others.
I have 3 photos from this morning alone.
Yes, you're like my pops, his iPhone 6+ has like 500 photos because all he almost really does on his phone is instagram the food he eats from breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks... and doesn't like deleting them off his phone although it's stored on instagram.
Thanks for the responses and experiences everyone! It definately helps in deciding - though it sounds like there's no simple answer. At the very least though, it doesn't sound like 16 GB is as "unusable" as I feared. I get that the larger models are more future-proof for songs, pictures, etc., but I was worried that the 16 GB might not get future versions of iOS.
Here's a question though: with my Android, I tend to keep my main music collection on DropBox, and only keep the songs I'm actually listening to on my device. As my mood changes, I delete what's on my device and download a new set of songs. So at any given moment their might be 200 songs on DropBox, but only 10 on my device.
Is it easy to do that sort of swapping with an iPhone? I don't believe I can "download" music files from a cloud service to an iPhone, correct? If not, can I use iTunes to keep only a small selection of songs on the device, while leaving the main collection on the laptop or the cloud?
For me it is enough. I had purchased an iPhone 64GB space gray, I sold it and bought a 16 gb gold.
Out of 64 GB had occupied only 3GB, I listen music only on Spotify. I sync all of your photos on Dropbox and I'm fine with my 16gb.
(Sorry for my English, I'm from Italy!)
Is it easy to do that sort of swapping with an iPhone? I don't believe I can "download" music files from a cloud service to an iPhone, correct? If not, can I use iTunes to keep only a small selection of songs on the device, while leaving the main collection on the laptop or the cloud?