Total disk space shows 28.1 GB for a phone which is 32 GB. Why ?

[Alexan81]

hello

That's pretty much my question

 

[anon(153966)]

Same with a Windows computer. Some space is used for the System and thus is never available to the user.

 

[kch50428]

Operating System...

 

[anon(3733516)]

The operating system is taking up that space. You never get the full amount of space that the product advertises.

 

[RicHerdez]

1 gb is for ios and the other 2.5-3 gb is for system apps and features such as siri. and other things among that that i cannot recall at the moment.

 

[jzarob]

Not only does iOS take up about 1 GB of space, the actual disk space varies because of the definition of a GB, and what is advertised as a GB. Apple usually warns that actual disk capacity may very.

The problem is computers and iOS use base 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32...) while Apple advertised 32 GB in base 10. It works out that you get around 6.4% less that what is advertised.

 

[ctt1wbw]

I think you should sue Apple.

 

[RicHerdez]

lol people just dont realize most of the time that the os takes up space. my garage is 300 sq ft but i added cabinets so it is really 250 sq ft .