iPhone Almost Full = Documents & Data = One Solution

[maco]

For whatever reason, the Documents & Data section of my iPhone was hogging a ton of space. I just read about this trick. It's working!

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments...ownload_a/

[Filliam H. Muffman]

The "rent a huge movie" trick was mentioned about a year ago. iPhone 'Over Capacity'...

Does Apple sell phones with limited storage on purpose as a way to force people to pay for iCloud?

[Lew Zealand]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
The "rent a huge movie" trick was mentioned about a year ago. iPhone 'Over Capacity'...

Does Apple sell phones with limited storage on purpose as a way to force people to pay for iCloud?

Hmmm, good question. Does Apple make more money on services or on people buying new hardware when their old stuff gets too "small?" If the customer is aware of data loss, then they are probably hoping everyone buys iCloud in any case for the backup.

[gabester]

Lew Zealand wrote: Does Apple make more money on services or on people buying new hardware when their old stuff gets too "small?"

Well, Apple's made exactly $0 off me from their cloud storage services over the years... and I've paid at least $300 since 2011 to get extra capacity (16GB to 32GB) built into 4 iPhones in that time so that I didn't have to depend on their crummy cloud for my data and content. That comes out to less than $5/month for me. What's the cheapest iCloud expansion I could have had? How much extra would it have been for me to get iTunes Match to have all my music?

Yeah, I'm not the typical customer but I'll bet this answers the numbers question in terms of the pros/cons on a case by case basis.

To update the numbers, if an iPhone SE with 128GB is introduced and/or there's a price drop on the 64GB version, I'm highly likely to get one, more than doubling what I've put in so far, which likely would then tilt the equation against my phone storage strategy and in favor of Apple's Cloud costs.

[Numo]

Is there a way to off-load data from an iPhone or iPad to your computer?

[datbeme]

Ammo wrote:
Is there a way to off-load data from an iPhone or iPad to your computer?

While maybe not the data you speak of, I recently archived all of my old texts and voice messages using PhoneView (http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/) and deleted just about all of them from my phone. This app has been mentioned on the forum a few times—no raves, but it's pretty useful.

Not sure how much the texts themselves took, up but they contained a fair amount of image, movie clips, etc. Didn't want to get rid of all this for good, but I don't need it taking up space on my phone either. That, and I removed most of my photo library (which I download regularly anyway with Image Capture). This all freed up 9-10 GB on a 32GB phone.