[HN Gopher] iPhone 17e
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iPhone 17e
https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/
Author : meetpateltech
Score : 154 points
Date : 2026-03-02 14:03 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| satvikpendem wrote:
| Sad it doesn't have the dynamic island, was going to pick up one
| of these for testing for iOS app development. Everything else
| looks fine however, as expected.
| NetMageSCW wrote:
| I would recommend the base 17 for that.
| loeg wrote:
| Or one of the older models? 15/16 have it too.
| satvikpendem wrote:
| For just testing I'd rather just get a used 14, 15, or 16.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| $599 still feels like they're setting whatever price they can get
| away with. It's been 20 years, why don't we have sub $500 new
| iPhones yet?
| joezydeco wrote:
| It's a luxury brand. You don't sell cheap and risk losing the
| people that are happy to pay $1400 for a new iPhone.
| NetMageSCW wrote:
| It's not a luxury brand, it is a quality brand. There is a
| difference.
| joezydeco wrote:
| So is Mercedes-Benz. But they don't sell a $20,000 commuter
| car.
| NetMageSCW wrote:
| No, Mercedes Benz is definitely a luxury brand. They
| don't want to sell to everyone. Apple (Steve Jobs) has
| explicitly stated that as one of their goals.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| Toyota is a quality brand, Mercedes is a luxury brand.
| tencentshill wrote:
| It's not a quality brand, it is a luxury brand. There is
| a difference.
| slaw wrote:
| Mercedes-Benz sells commuter cars in Europe.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_A-Class
| orangepanda wrote:
| And this is the Mercedes-Benz commuter car I want to see
| more of.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Citaro
| kube-system wrote:
| > The Mercedes-Benz A-Class is a car manufactured by
| _German luxury automaker_ Mercedes-Benz
|
| "luxury" is more of a marketing and product positioning
| term, it doesn't really have anything to do with
| engineering or quality practicalities
| cromka wrote:
| Oh but they do:
| https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Automobile
| charcircuit wrote:
| >aimed at producing Smart-badged cars
|
| The brand is "Smart".
| AmbroseBierce wrote:
| The keyboard-doesn't-trigger-the-tapped-key-sometimes
| brand, just awestruck at their quality https://ios-
| countdown.win/
| alwillis wrote:
| > It's not a luxury brand, it is a quality brand. There is
| a difference.
|
| It's an attainable luxury brand. There aren't many products
| that a high school kid has in common with billionaires,
| superstar athletes and movie stars--the iPhone is such a
| product.
| stephenboyd wrote:
| The iPhone SE was only $400.
| dmix wrote:
| I'd argue that is worth the money if you're going to be using a
| phone every single day of their life. People will drop a few
| hundred on fancy shoes and wear them once a month, but they
| treat phones as cheap commodities.
| mrweasel wrote:
| Last time I complained about the pricing of the iPhone, people
| pointed out that inflation included the prices wasn't to far of
| from the original iPhone.
|
| Still, I don't care that the phones are faster, have larger
| screens, better camera, FaceID, AI, are thinner light and what
| have you. The iPhone design peaked in 2015, from there they
| could just have release the same phone year after year, making
| it cheaper and cheaper and I'd still be happy with it.
|
| The prices are, in my mind insane, and I'll be buying used, but
| those are also overpriced.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| No, they couldn't, because then the company would stop
| existing due to lack of sales.
| nancyminusone wrote:
| Bell System released about 10 models over 110 years, worked
| out just fine for them.
| BoorishBears wrote:
| And now you see why they want to grow their services
| business so badly
| thebigman433 wrote:
| > Still, I don't care that the phones are faster, have larger
| screens, better camera, FaceID, AI, are thinner light and
| what have you. The iPhone design peaked in 2015, from there
| they could just have release the same phone year after year,
| making it cheaper and cheaper and I'd still be happy with it.
|
| This obviously isnt relevant generally though, this is not
| how the general public feels at all.
| lenerdenator wrote:
| Because they know people will pay it.
| ortusdux wrote:
| Can mess up the price ladder!
| JohnTHaller wrote:
| Global crazy tariffs, supply chain issues, and RAM and storage
| shortages due to AI hype betting. Also greed.
| gbear605 wrote:
| Taking inflation into account, a $599 iPhone in 2026 would have
| been $380 in 2007. Given that the actual launch price in 2007
| was $499, that's a pretty hefty drop.
| thatfrenchguy wrote:
| $499 with carrier subsidy too
| tech234a wrote:
| At least they increased the base storage to 256GB
| thoughtpalette wrote:
| Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form
| factor release one of these announcements.. :'}
| Alifatisk wrote:
| My next upgrade if my 12 mini gives up will be an 13 mini. And
| from there I will probably just stick to refurbed 13 minis
| until a good alternative comes out.
| mikestew wrote:
| Where are you finding refurb'ed 13 Minis? Apple only goes
| back to 14s now on store.apple.com in the U. S.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| FB marketplace and/or eBay.
| Alifatisk wrote:
| refurbed.com and swappie.com, I don't know if they do it on
| all phones but some of them get their battery changed to a
| fresh one aswell!
| moralestapia wrote:
| Hey man, this is great!
|
| Thanks.
|
| (I'm also looking to "refresh" my iPhone 13 mini)
| mini13mini13 wrote:
| I highly recommend hunting down a 13 mini now (with a lot of
| battery left) so you can switch when you have to. I did last
| summer and was glad I didn't have to organize one on short
| notice. And if you avoid ios26 - make sure the ios18 on the
| device is updated because now you no longer get updated
| within ios18
| Kreutzer wrote:
| I'm currently on iOS 16 with iPhone 12 mini. I don't even
| see an option to update to anything but iOS26, so I'm
| staying put.
|
| My worst is buying a 13mini that is already updated to
| IOS26, then I think I would be screwed.
| mikestew wrote:
| Maybe the iPhone Fold won't be two 8" slabs of glass glued
| together, I think that's the only hope for those holding out
| for another Mini.
| alpaca128 wrote:
| That's true, some foldables like that exist. The problem for
| me is that I don't want to pay for the folding part, not
| interested in that.
| freetonik wrote:
| Have you replaced the battery? My 13 mini shows 90% battery
| health but I can't use it for the full day (and I don't game or
| anything, just light use). I wonder if the battery is really ok
| and it's the software that is to blame.
| abhikul0 wrote:
| I got the base 13 at launch day whose battery health now
| states 86%. While I have noticed degraded battery
| performance, the stated health has been stuck at 86% for
| quite a while now.
|
| I guess it's bugged out and would opt for a battery change if
| you're feeling the battery pains, I'm thinking of upgrading
| to the new base model this year for the usb c and 120hz
| display.
| embedding-shape wrote:
| I still have my 12 Mini, changed the battery in a Apple store
| a year ago (and they broke the screen in the process so got a
| new screen too) for I think 99 EUR, now the battery still
| last ~2 days, easily worth it. Maximum capacity says "87%"
| right now although I don't know what exactly that's based on.
|
| I'm keeping this phone until either Apple releses a new mini
| or until Motorola released a GrapheneOS phone, whichever
| comes first.
| roughly wrote:
| > changed the battery in a Apple store a year ago (and they
| broke the screen in the process so got a new screen too)
|
| Huh, I had a 12 mini and had the same thing happen at an
| independent repair shop I used to frequent. I've been
| pretty salty with the shop, but I guess it's an easier
| fuckup than I've been giving them credit for.
| francisofascii wrote:
| 13 mini user here. I have 86% battery health, and it is
| "okay". I need to charge it about once a day. Also holding
| out due to the smaller size.
| trenning wrote:
| I'm down to 75% on my 13mini. I recently picked up a magsafe
| battery pack that gets me through the day when I'm traveling
| and can't charge.
|
| I was considering swapping out the phone battery but this is
| a better alternative for now.
| marc_g wrote:
| Just replaced my 13 mini battery this past week which was at
| 80%. Noticeable improvement. I'm not a very heavy user but
| did find that I was getting to the 20/10% range at the end of
| most days. Now its 30/40 and I'm happy! Many more years in
| the old steed yet.
| frereubu wrote:
| My 13 mini on iOS 26 shows 83% maximum capacity but makes it
| through the day with light-ish use (Spotify (although
| generally offline playlists because of lossless audio) NYT
| games, email, messaging, browsing, Instapaper). I do have
| lots of accessibility settings enabled to stop things like
| transparency and animations though. See my comment here for
| more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45544554
| tambourine_man wrote:
| SE 3rd gen here as my daily driver. Small form factor and Touch
| ID. The perfect iPhone IMO.
|
| Not looking forward to having to settle for those comically
| large phones with Face ID for my next one.
| loeg wrote:
| I'm also a touchID / iphone 8 size fan, but the nice
| cameras/zoom in flagship models are hard to give up. At least
| Face ID has improved significantly from the early days of
| iphone 10 -- it's faster and more reliable than it was on the
| older models if you tried it back then.
| rubee64 wrote:
| Same. Home button is sooo much better than swiping gestures
| bubblewand wrote:
| The physical home button is, no bullshit, one of the
| greatest pieces of UI ever. No, I am not kidding, I really
| think that. It's crazy to me that they abandoned it, the
| gestures that replace its functionality are overall-worse
| and cluttering the gesture system with even more of them is
| bad for the overall UX.
| dilyevsky wrote:
| Maybe you know this but it wasn't a physical button since
| i think iphone 7 - it was a haptic sensor.
| frereubu wrote:
| The thing I've come to like about FaceID on my 13 mini is
| that I can require it for certain apps to open that don't
| require it - e.g. messaging as opposed to banking which
| generally require some kind of auth by default - which is
| much better security in case someone snatches it out of my
| hand while it's unlocked. It's pretty seamless because I'm
| generally looking at the device anyway, and it's much less
| faff than it would be with TouchID.
| jeffbee wrote:
| I think the way the Pixel does it is strictly better across
| the board. The fingerprint sensor doesn't sacrifice screen
| space, and the platform offers face unlock as well.
| m463 wrote:
| I "adapted" to losing the fingerprint reader.
|
| Wow, it has a lot of unexpected downsides.
|
| I've a lot of unexpected behavior from the faceid thing. Lots
| of unexpected swipe-ups that drop me out of an app and put me
| on the home screen. Can't unlock in the dark, too close to
| your face, off to the side, in your pocket. Lots of "I saw
| your face an unlocked" that I didn't know had happened.
|
| fingerprint sensor unlocked when you wanted it to, with
| haptics. switching apps was a button operation, not happening
| when you didn't expect it.
| lynndotpy wrote:
| Plus, fingerprint scanners can be activated without
| breaking eye contact with the person you're talking to.
| It's very anti-social technology.
|
| It makes one look completely like a tool to pull out their
| iPhone and stare at it for ten seconds while checking out
| with a cashier. Deeply embarrassing and very annoying.
| dilyevsky wrote:
| I get that getting rid of touchid haptic eliminates dead
| space but still blows my mind they couldn't or refused to
| figure out screen-based touch id as an option at least.
| Samsung has it...
| daemonologist wrote:
| Under-screen fingerprint readers are definitely inferior -
| slower and less reliable. I (Android user) wish they'd
| revert to back-of-device readers, which were amazing.
|
| (I also wish for smaller screens and no-adhesive battery
| swaps though, neither of which seems likely to happen.)
| MysticFear wrote:
| Wow, I thought I was the only one.. or very few. Bring back
| small phones please
| danielvaughn wrote:
| People make fun of me but I'll never skip a chance to complain
| about how large these phones are. I hate it so much. I have a
| standard iPhone, not a max, and it causes real pain in my wrist
| if I use it too much. Was honestly thinking about downgrading
| to the last SE model even though it's several years out of
| date.
| devmor wrote:
| I don't think anyone should make fun of you for it but I'm in
| the opposite boat. I'm so glad that they make the pro max
| variants because most smartphones are so small that it hurts
| my fingers to bend them in the unnaturally inward way it
| requires to hold and interact with them.
| foobarian wrote:
| For me it's not the fingers, it's the eyesight.
| zem wrote:
| I switched from a pixel 3 to a pixel 9 pro over a year ago,
| and I still miss the smaller form factor. the pixel 3 really
| was the perfect size for me and I am sad I can no longer get
| a smallish phone with a high end processor.
| nomilk wrote:
| Funnily, the large display is the most important thing for
| me. I find my efficiency directly proportional to display
| size (which holds for laptops too).
|
| If a 30 second task can be done in just 20 on a device with a
| larger display, that's absolutely worth it for me.
|
| Also larger device tends to imply longer battery life too.
| mattnewton wrote:
| If the task can't be done in a few taps I feel I'm better
| off opening a laptop anyways.
|
| But the market agrees with you so I must be missing
| something. I used to think it was driven by media
| consumption on phones, and that I try to avoid, but this
| isn't the first time I have heard people tout phone
| productivity gains from a slightly larger screen.
| EduardoBautista wrote:
| I have found the iPhone Air much easier to hold than the
| iPhone 13 Pro it replaced because of how light it is, even
| though the iPhone Air has a bigger screen.
| lurking_swe wrote:
| my wife upgraded from a 13 mini to an Air and she loves it. She
| thought she hated the larger size of new phones, but after
| holding the Air in her hand she realized the weight and
| thickness was the issue for her!
|
| It's a tough call though because the Air has a lot of pros and
| cons! My wife never takes nature photography or macro
| photography, so she was OK with the 1 camera compromise.
|
| If you truly want a shorter phone, my condolences lol. Apple
| seems to be ignoring this user segment.
| apparent wrote:
| I tried the Air and went back to the mini because of the
| camera compromises. One big issue for me was losing Cinematic
| video, which I use all the time.
| laweijfmvo wrote:
| for me it's the comfort/ability to put the thing in my
| pocket.
| lurking_swe wrote:
| I can relate. I actually used to be jealous of the ladies
| because they always have a convenient purse to put things
| in. These days I wear a light weight cross-body "sling"
| bag, and i'm happy as a peach.
|
| Easy way to bring my phone, sunglasses, wallet, keys, etc
| with me. Pockets can be pretty annoying.
|
| Maybe 2027 will be the year of the mini? :)
| frereubu wrote:
| Now imagine an iPhone Mini Air. I'd be all over that, camera
| compromises or not.
| conk wrote:
| I moved off the mini to get satelite messaging which I use
| while hiking. But now that T-Mobile/starlink support satelite
| on the 13 mini, maybe I'll go back.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| I stuck with my 13 mini for a long time, and had recently put a
| new iFixit battery in it too. I did finally make the jump to a
| Pixel 10 but sign me up with everyone else who misses
| reasonably-sized phones.
| laweijfmvo wrote:
| Same. This would be an obvious upgrade for me, if the overall
| size was anywhere close to the Mini. Oddly enough, the
| announcement doesn't even list the screen size, but I'm sure
| it's 6" +
| smugma wrote:
| 6.1" vs. 6.3" on the regular 17
| Jonovono wrote:
| If we could get a 13 mini sized phone with some better battery
| that would be great
| llsf wrote:
| Same holding on the 13 mini, love the form factor.
| scott01 wrote:
| Same here, just replaced the battery.
| wlesieutre wrote:
| Finally moved on from my 12 mini, but I still have it sitting
| in my office and when I pick it up I think "wow this feels like
| a phone from the future."
|
| Wish they made a new mini instead of the Air. A friend bought
| one of those, and frankly I just don't get it.
|
| The screen is too big to use it one-handed, and thickness is
| really the only one of the three dimension of the phone that I
| don't care about how small it is (within reason). They probably
| spent billions of dollars shaving off half a millimeter and
| what do we get with that technology? Phone that's too big.
|
| If this keeps up in another 5 years I'll be looking at flip
| phones and a separate camera.
| joaomoreno wrote:
| Just upgraded from a 12 mini to a 13 mini with more storage. I
| intend for it to last another 5 years.
| mrexroad wrote:
| Been thinking of doing the same. My 12 is showing its cycles,
| but it's either I have a phone that lives in my front pocket,
| or I can go phone-less.
|
| I refuse to have a phone I have to constantly carry, hold, or
| move from back pocket when I sit. This damn thing is in my
| hands enough, I don't need to increase the surface area for
| potential distractions.
| subculture wrote:
| One can only hope... My 13 mini's performance, especially for
| the Camera and Safari seem to have hit new lows with iOS 26.
| I'm sticking with the mini for its size, but also its weight.
| So far the Air is the only alternative I think I could switch
| to, but apparently that's also on Apple's chopping block due
| to poor sales.
| CephalopodMD wrote:
| They'll pry mine from my cold dead hands!
|
| (Until they release a new human hand sized phone at least)
| alpaca128 wrote:
| I have large hands but the 13 Mini is roughly the maximum I can
| use one-handed without doing the weird finger balancing act to
| shift the phone around. I get why most people like large phones
| - media consumption - but not everyone is into that.
|
| I don't even mind large phones if they're done right. My
| favorite phone of all time is the BB Passport which you _have
| to_ use two-handed, but it was actually designed around that
| and amazing to use.
| r0fl wrote:
| It always surprises me that the mini was ~1% of sales and yet
| the pro mini comments get so many upvotes
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| The release schedule was crap, as well as the 12 mini being
| an objectively bad phone.
|
| Spring 2020, they released the iPhone SE 2020, 4 years after
| the previous iPhone SE. This satiated a lot of the demand for
| people holding out for a smaller phone. Then came the
| surprise with 12 mini in September of 2020, except the
| battery life and performance sucked, garnering bad reviews.
|
| Then, finally in September 2021, they released the 13 mini,
| an objectively good, smaller phone. But over the previous 18
| months, a lot of the buyers for the 13 mini had already
| bought the 2020 SE or were burned by the 12 mini.
| philip1209 wrote:
| Same. Many developers are "desktop"-native for their work and
| reading-focused for their media, so they don't value the gauche
| pocket TV-era of phones.
| mrexroad wrote:
| I showed my Costco membership QR code to the cashier the other
| day, and they suddenly exclaimed, "oh my! What a cute little
| phone!!"
|
| It took me a second to even process why someone might say such
| a thing about my case-less generic 12 mini. Most of my close
| friends have 13 mini's so I often feel my wife's "regular" size
| iPhone is the odd one out.
| javier2 wrote:
| Best phone I ever had, the 12 mini
| dont__panic wrote:
| Still loving mine as well. I held out with the 2016 SE for 8
| years. Sadly it's looking like I might have to do that again
| with the 13 mini! It boggles my mind that Apple thinks it's
| worthwhile to sell the 16, 17, 17 Pro, and 17e all in basically
| the exact same form factor. And then the Air and Max in very
| similar form factors. Vary it up! I don't need a new mini every
| year, but something in the 5.4" form factor every 3-4 years
| would obviously have an audience. I don't care if it's a Pro or
| an SE/e model, I just need something that'll keep me on the
| latest iOS for security updates.
|
| Sigh. Maybe the Clicks Communicator (at 13cm tall) will get my
| money.
| dgellow wrote:
| Get an SE 3rd gen!
| apparent wrote:
| Yeah, I wish they would commit to doing a mini every x years.
| Last year I bought a 16 and this year I bought an Air. I
| returned both after just a few days. I can't reach across the
| phone with my thumb, meaning I can't use it one-handed.
|
| The new phones have some neat tricks (satellite connectivity
| comes to mind), but the on-device AI seems pretty mediocre and
| I value pocketability and one-handed usability more than the
| new gizmos.
|
| When I asked myself if I would rather keep the new Air or go
| back to my 13 mini with an extra thousand dollars in my pocket,
| it was no contest.
| AndrewKemendo wrote:
| I'm exactly there with you with my 13 mini and I did realize
| that it's not gonna last as we really get into the era of local
| LLMs
|
| Running deepseek 6B on the Private LLM app on the iPhone 13
| basically set my phone on fire
| zamadatix wrote:
| Seems like a decent deal for what it has and getting the full
| support lifecycle out of it instead of used. Does anyone know if
| this gets $50 off with the education discount?
| busymom0 wrote:
| Here in Canada, both the education pricing and regular pricing
| are at "From $899". So no edu discount.
| joshstrange wrote:
| I'm glad they added MagSafe with this version, that was my
| biggest "issue" with the 16e. Thankfully you can add a ring to
| the back of the device to "give" it MagSafe (the magnets part at
| least, if not the faster charging).
| lysace wrote:
| No mention of the amount of onboard RAM. (In this press release
| or in https://www.apple.com/iphone-17e/specs/.)
| anshumankmr wrote:
| Assuming it has Apple INtelligence, 8 gigs seems plausible?
| alwillis wrote:
| Every phone since the iPhone 15 Pro has the minimum 8GB to
| accommodate Apple Intelligence.
| alwillis wrote:
| Going back to the 2007, Apple doesn't reveal the amount of RAM
| for the iPhone in their marketing.
|
| Occasionally there's a feature that requires a minimum amount
| of RAM like Apple Intelligence but that's the exception.
| wps wrote:
| I think the most valuable part of this "e" lineup is the in-house
| developed modem. The power and security benefits are probably
| enormous.
| jeffbee wrote:
| If the 17e had that chip, wouldn't it have Wi-Fi 7 and
| Bluetooth 6? It has neither of those.
| varenc wrote:
| From the press release:
|
| > _iPhone 17e also features C1X, the latest-generation
| cellular modem designed by Apple_
|
| But the 17e iPhone seems to lack the Apple developed N1 chip
| that provides Wifi 7 + Bluetooth 6. So presumably they're
| using off the shelf components for Wifi and Bluetooth in the
| 17e.
| alwillis wrote:
| The modem chip (the C series) and the N series are two
| different chipsets.
|
| For example, the 16e has the C1 modem but the standard
| Broadcom (or whoever) Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chipset.
| lofaszvanitt wrote:
| The new iPhone 17empty. Bland design, same old shit repackaged
| again.
| LoganDark wrote:
| It looks like the only changes are 256GB, OLED, MagSafe, A19 and
| C1X. Anything else of note?
| klardotsh wrote:
| 16e has OLED, the new thing with the 17e screen is the ceramic
| coating on the glass.
| hamdingers wrote:
| Pink!
| amelius wrote:
| Still no support for "actually owning your device."
| Disappointing.
| flykespice wrote:
| Thanks for saving me a click
| brk wrote:
| Considering that no major phone or carrier has embraced that
| model why would you expect it to suddenly appear here?
| amelius wrote:
| Someone told me that this company "Thinks different".
| mihaaly wrote:
| No Touch ID? Too bad.
| conk wrote:
| I really want to like the lower cost e phones, but the lack of
| ultrawide band support is a deal breaker. Does adding this
| feature really increase the cost, or is this a calculated move by
| Apple to ensure those who use this for air tags or keyless entry
| continue to buy higher end phones.
| mattmaroon wrote:
| Probably both.
| alwillis wrote:
| The conventional wisdom is Apple believes anyone for whom
| ultra wide-band is an important feature wouldn't be
| interested in a bargain iPhone.
| paxys wrote:
| I'm happy for the existence of the e line mainly because it
| forces them to bump up the specs on the base iPhone. 17 is so
| good now that there's very little reason to get the 17 Pro.
| alwillis wrote:
| Yes, the baseline 17 has almost all of the features of previous
| Pro models.
| TrainedMonkey wrote:
| Apple seems to be pushing for accessibility and volume. Cheaper
| phones, mac minis, and entry point mac that will be introduced on
| Wednesday.
| mrexroad wrote:
| Tbh, feels like the market is pushing for that and Apple is
| responding.
| kykat wrote:
| 709 euro in Austria (828.89 us dollars), a 38% increase in
| price...
| rafaelmn wrote:
| US prices don't include sales tax so 20% of that is VAT
| beAbU wrote:
| > and double the starting storage at 256GB
|
| Is massive storage on a mobile device really still a thing that's
| important?
|
| I'm saying this as someone with 512GB, but I just checked and I'm
| using 85GB at the moment, including the OS.
|
| Photos and videos are the likely reason why the phones have so
| much storage, but these days both apple and google offer decent
| cloud backup solutions which negates the need for massive on-
| device storage. I'd rather the storage be smaller, and the
| savings going toward more battery or whatever.
|
| Am I the only one?
| valleyer wrote:
| I don't think it's inherently impossible, but Apple at least
| seems to do a really poor job at local cache management on iOS
| for Photos and Messages attachments. I am constantly amazed to
| find my non-tech-savvy relatives deleting stuff from their
| phones to free up local storage.
| brendoelfrendo wrote:
| Cloud backups are great for keeping your photos long-term, but
| if you want those photos on your phone so you can show them to
| people or share them, you need to download them anyway.
|
| I need storage because Honkai: Star Rail is 32gb and I like
| being able to have more than one game on my phone.
| beAbU wrote:
| I know good network connectivity is not a privilege that
| everyone has, but on google photos I can scroll back all the
| way to 2007 when my digital photo collection started (I
| uploaded everything I had manually), and it's as if all those
| photos are local on my device.
| ljoshua wrote:
| I've had at least 256GB on my phones for the last couple of
| generations after having had to deal with storage issues
| beforehand, and it's been much nicer.
|
| But I picked up a 16e for my son a few months ago, with 128GB,
| and yes, we're running into issues with storage space when it
| comes time to do an OS update. Between local music and photos
| storage, base storage, and the image for the new update, two or
| three times now we've had to delete stuff temporarily in order
| to get the update going. So I'm happy the new base is 256GB, at
| least that will probably last us a couple more generations
| before ~~640KB~~ 256GB is enough for everyone.
| kccqzy wrote:
| Both third party developers and Apple have increasingly become
| terrible at respecting the user's disk space. Recently my
| iPhone started crashing as it ran out of space. I found that
| Apple Maps was using twenty gigs. Fortunately the fix is simple
| as the issue is widespread and it has become the first search
| result.
| https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256084682?sortBy=rank
|
| If you have 512GB I don't think you really experience the worst
| of it. A lot of bugs are just Apple creating humongous
| temporary files before they are deleted as they age. Unless you
| check every day you don't really know how much is really being
| used. You don't really experience these crashes.
| prmoustache wrote:
| Cloud storage do not help you sharing that old photo album with
| friends spending the night in a cabin far from the closest cell
| phone coverage.
|
| Also, cloud service typically move your older stuff to
| colder/slower storage which are painfully slow to retrieve
| whenever you decides to do it. I realized this when browsing
| some old pictures before closing a google account I had not
| been using for years except emptying the gmail inbox every few
| months.
|
| I personally prefer having a local copy of my files and
| syncthing them to my NAS at home (which is itself backuped in a
| storage in the cloud).
| BoorishBears wrote:
| If you've never used an iPhone near it's storage limit, I
| wouldn't wish it on you.
|
| Performance nosedives, then it starts bootlooping randomly, and
| eventually you can't even delete stuff because there's no space
| to delete things.
|
| You resort to randomly trying to remove apps, but sometimes
| that fails because of the stability issues.
|
| -
|
| The only reason I replaced my 12 Pro was storage, and I made up
| my mind never to skimp on storage again.
|
| That phone lasted me 5 years and could easily have gone several
| more, so I see it as an extremely cheap investment across the
| lifetime of the phone.
| ansgri wrote:
| Unfortunately yes. Some mobile games are 30+ GB (and this is
| probably the major reason for increasing minimum storage),
| high-res videos take any amount of space and are slow to sync
| with cloud, in-app downloaded data caches are routinely 2-5 GB
| each in addition to apps themselves.
| giwook wrote:
| I'd love to have a smaller/cheaper phone but I continue to hold
| onto my Pro from a couple years ago is for the high end camera,
| particularly the telephoto lens.
|
| No, I don't need it all the time.
|
| But when you do need it, it's invaluable.
| gs17 wrote:
| I have the same issue with my Pixel. It's nice to be able to
| use a real zoom when I need it, but that means I can't get the
| one that's otherwise what I really need.
| aetherspawn wrote:
| Waiting for the first pro line phone with both the Apple modem
| and Apple wifi/BT stack in it. Battery life is always a struggle
| when the phone gets older.
| znpy wrote:
| Exactly. I guess it's time to replace my trusty iphone se 3rd
| gen. It's been a great phone though, best one i ever had.
| prmoustache wrote:
| The example photos are so bad it is laughable.
| shhsshs wrote:
| I'm trying to understand what you mean by this. Are you saying
| they're "bad" in terms of resolution, or artistic value, or
| something else? They seem good enough (far from "bad") by any
| definition I can think of.
| varispeed wrote:
| Why they don't mention that the phone is essentially a brick when
| new iOS will require handing over your ID?
| brikym wrote:
| My mother still has an old iPhone because it fits her hand. They
| don't seem to get this anymore.
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| Smaller phones aren't great for older people because of the
| increased font size that they use. They can barely fit a
| sentence onto the screen.
| kittikitti wrote:
| Ironic that there are so many iPhones but such little diversity
| in the design. It went from "Think Different" to "Conformity &
| Comfort".
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