iphone storage is rigged

ihateapplestorage wrote:

iphone 11 64gb ios17.

No matter how much things i delete storage is going up ?????????? Ive probabaly deleted over 10gb of apps and photos but no im still on 63.6gb. I swear this is rigged so the rich keep getting richer and the poor (me) get poorer. Dont tell me to update ios because guess what you need for that storage. Tell me why i deleted a 400mb app then 5 minutes later it went up by 700mb??? (laughing face emoji) Fix this now apple

If you are looking for an answer, and not just ranting, when you delete photos they are moved to the Recently Deleted album, where they remain for 30 days. To get rid of them immediately open that album and delete them again.

When you delete other content the storage it uses is marked as available, but the content isn’t deleted in real time. Instead, the storage it used is recovered in a background “cleanup” process when the device is idle. If it were deleted immediately it would slow down your device unacceptably.

First try a forced restart

1. Press and quickly release the volume up button.
2. Press and quickly release the volume down button.
3. Press and hold the side button.
4. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button.

If this is not working, see this user tip on how to upgrade your iOS using a pc or Mac. This uses less storage then an over the air upgrade

Updating/upgrading your iPhone - Apple Community

In addition to what others have offered, let's be realistic. You're dealing with a phone circa 2019, and you bought it with the lowest level of storage available at that time. 64GB is simply not enough storage in modern times. Storage is perhaps the most important consideration and often the most overlooked thing people pay little attention to.

Today, new iPhones from Apple start at 256GB and go up to 2TB. Personally, I don't even think 256GB is enough, which is why for the last couple years, my new iPhones have been pruchased with 512GB. Once purchased, there is no way to add storage to an iPhone. So you are hamstrung with a phone without enough storage to meet your needs and that's not something you can fix, unless you delete a LOT of data off your iPhone. Technology keeps moving forward and as it does storage needs increase.

No one has ever come to this forum complaining they have too much storage on their iPhone. But they sure do come here complaining they don't have enough storage. The next time you buy an iPhone, pay more attention to the storage option you buy.

lobsterghost1 wrote: Today, new iPhones from Apple start at 256GB and go up to 2TB. Personally, I don't even think 256GB is enough, which is why for the last couple years, my new iPhones have been pruchased with 512GB.

When I bought my iPhone 12 mini, the choices for that model were 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB. I went with the 256 GB option, and am glad I did. I am now using nearly 220 GB. I do not have immediate plans to replace this iPhone, but when I get my next one, I will likely look for one that has 512 GB of storage, or more.

And to think – it's only been about 70 years since IBM introduced the world's first commercial hard drive. A unit the size of a washing machine ("5 ft high by 6 ft wide") that weighed over a ton, rented for $750 USD per month, and stored a whopping 3.75 MB (not GB) of data. Four of those Model 350 RAMAC units put together would fall just short of having enough space to hold a 256 Kbps AAC version of The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want" from the album "Forty Licks".

Computer History Museum – 1956: First Commercial Hard Drive Shipped

No one has ever come to this forum complaining they have too much storage on their iPhone. But they sure do come here complaining they don't have enough storage. The next time you buy an iPhone, pay more attention to the storage option you buy.

ihateapplestorage wrote:

Fix this now apple

This is a user-to-user forum. You are not speaking to Apple.

Our storage needs are only going to grow and likely grow faster, not slower. It won't be long before buying devices with at least a TB of storage will be the norm.