Hi all! Obligatory 'hope this is the right place to post if not mods please move', because lots has changed since I last spent much time here!
I'm finally accepting that my beloved 5s, while working just fine and as handy as ever with its small size, is getting to be too much work to keep using with all the apps that no longer support it and the looming danger of Apple quitting the security updates.
I've decided the new SE is the way to go for me (don't care for any of the Minis).
The only question, and what I need your opinion on, is whether I'd be fine with 64gb (and save ~€70/$80) or it's smarter to spring for the 128gb.
The 5S is 32gb, so in its day it was the medium capacity just like the 128gb is today. But for the past several years, it's been either full to the point of sending up insistent 'iPhone storage almost full' notices, or, after some enormous and time-consuming clear-outs, having only about 3gb free.
I started getting the storage full notices no later than mid-2018 (probably a fair bit earlier) and despite a huge cull back in spring 2019, I still had to do a smaller one this summer to make the 'storage almost full' notice go away again, and that's despite the fact that I've been overthinking every darn picture since the storage first filled up and hardly ever shooting video despite quite enjoying it.
However, the problem really is all down to photos/videos. My music library's the second biggest thing on there, but even that's only about half of the pared-down Photos section. It'd be nice to upload some more, mainly stuff not on Apple Music, but I still use that for the more mainstream titles. I'm also really minimalist on apps, by preference, making the most of the native apps as much as possible and regularly decluttering ones I downloaded but never got into using. Same with messages. As for games...oh man, not a single one (just a tiny bit embarrassing as a millennial, but there we are!)
I had a look around the tech blogs, and the consensus seems to be for the 128gb if you're looking to keep the phone for awhile (that being as little as 2 years for one blog!) - which I do - and if you prefer your files to be stored locally vs the cloud (also yes in my case).
Some suggest looking at whether you're close to filling up your current iPhone, but I bet when they wrote that they were mostly thinking of users with a newer 64gb phone - doubt many people are going up from just 32 gig, as it's been awhile since phones that small were common. So it doesn't mean 64gb wouldn't be enough. And $80 is about 2 months on my actual phone plan - not huge, but not low enough to be totally thoughtless about.
So, what do you all recommend? What other factors should I take into account?
I'm finally accepting that my beloved 5s, while working just fine and as handy as ever with its small size, is getting to be too much work to keep using with all the apps that no longer support it and the looming danger of Apple quitting the security updates.
I've decided the new SE is the way to go for me (don't care for any of the Minis).
The only question, and what I need your opinion on, is whether I'd be fine with 64gb (and save ~€70/$80) or it's smarter to spring for the 128gb.
The 5S is 32gb, so in its day it was the medium capacity just like the 128gb is today. But for the past several years, it's been either full to the point of sending up insistent 'iPhone storage almost full' notices, or, after some enormous and time-consuming clear-outs, having only about 3gb free.
I started getting the storage full notices no later than mid-2018 (probably a fair bit earlier) and despite a huge cull back in spring 2019, I still had to do a smaller one this summer to make the 'storage almost full' notice go away again, and that's despite the fact that I've been overthinking every darn picture since the storage first filled up and hardly ever shooting video despite quite enjoying it.
However, the problem really is all down to photos/videos. My music library's the second biggest thing on there, but even that's only about half of the pared-down Photos section. It'd be nice to upload some more, mainly stuff not on Apple Music, but I still use that for the more mainstream titles. I'm also really minimalist on apps, by preference, making the most of the native apps as much as possible and regularly decluttering ones I downloaded but never got into using. Same with messages. As for games...oh man, not a single one (just a tiny bit embarrassing as a millennial, but there we are!)
I had a look around the tech blogs, and the consensus seems to be for the 128gb if you're looking to keep the phone for awhile (that being as little as 2 years for one blog!) - which I do - and if you prefer your files to be stored locally vs the cloud (also yes in my case).
Some suggest looking at whether you're close to filling up your current iPhone, but I bet when they wrote that they were mostly thinking of users with a newer 64gb phone - doubt many people are going up from just 32 gig, as it's been awhile since phones that small were common. So it doesn't mean 64gb wouldn't be enough. And $80 is about 2 months on my actual phone plan - not huge, but not low enough to be totally thoughtless about.
So, what do you all recommend? What other factors should I take into account?
