what phone do you have?
) this comes across as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that they can't afford, can't justify or are unable to purchase bigger storage models. 
i don’t take offense to your comment but I guess I don’t take a lot of picsTo me (and I don't mean this as disrespect to any breh in this thread
If you've been on iPhone for any length of time, you're almost certainly running out of space because upgrading to a new phone means transferring data to a new device. That has the problem of building up over the span of multiple upgrades.
Personally, I still have images in my phone from my iPhone 7 plus. Currently sitting at 300 gbs used out of 512, meaning I literally cannot get the 256gb even if I wanted to.
iCloud is not a practical solution to this for many reasons that I don't really feel like getting into, but the main one is that I'd rather not have my images in the cloud in the event those servers eventually fail and my data is leaked, corrupted or deleted outright.
with my iPhone regularly when that iPhone is full alert pops up
you don’t need a phone and you just dropped 1k on that watch 
This is true for me too. Its why I went with the 512GB Plus model. I have so many songs, and I’m not sure if there is an easy/practical way of storing my almost 20k music library in the cloud…or if it would even be worth it. I won’t even be able to upgrade to iOS16, this coming Monday, because I won’t have enough space on my 12. People might say ”well, just delete some songs,” but I’d just rather upgrade if I’m at the point where my phone can no longer satisfy my needs.To me (and I don't mean this as disrespect to any breh in this thread
If you've been on iPhone for any length of time, you're almost certainly running out of space because upgrading to a new phone means transferring data to a new device. That has the problem of building up over the span of multiple upgrades.
Personally, I still have images in my phone from my iPhone 7 plus. Currently sitting at 300 gbs used out of 512, meaning I literally cannot get the 256gb even if I wanted to.
iCloud is not a practical solution to this for many reasons that I don't really feel like getting into, but the main one is that I'd rather not have my images in the cloud in the event those servers eventually fail and my data is leaked, corrupted or deleted outright.
oh ok that makes senseI'm a content creator, so I use my camera on my phone A LOT.
99% of my vlog in Japan was shot on my iPhone, which is crazy because that vlog is an hour long (and I have HOURS of unreleased footage).
So, I have a gang of footage on my phone
But I also have a ton of music as well, so that compounds the problem. It's what I bump in my car when I'm driving.
I suppose this makes me a "power user", but that's why I preordered the 1 TB.
I usually go Gold, but this purple got me feeling a way
i travel a good bit and am on the road. Its common for cell service to be shyt when traveling through miles of nothing or small towns. Nothing worse than streaming a song and it freezes and you have no music for 20 minutes at a timeoh ok that makes sense
from this thread it seems people still carry music in their phones too
interesting
My phone stays butt naked 24/7.
