16GB iPhone 6S won't go away! This is the only way to use it

If you buy a 16GB iPhone, this means you’ll soon see a screen like this:

Let's do a simple math problem. When you get a 16GB iPhone, the iOS system plus the built-in apps that cannot be deleted can easily take up more than 4GB of space, so the space that accompanies us is less than 12GB.

A game can easily take up hundreds of MB, and a masterpiece may even take up 2GB of space. The music I often listen to, which I want to cache locally and listen to when I go out, takes up hundreds of MB to 1GB. In addition, there are more and more apps I use frequently, and I have to reserve some space for taking photos... In the end, I have fallen to the point where I can only download some apps from the App Store when I need them, and delete them immediately after use.

As for a 720P high-definition movie that usually takes up at least 4GB of space? Forget about the 16GB version.

It was precisely because of this that at the beginning of the year I couldn't stand the 16GB iPhone 5S and made up my mind to switch to a 64GB iPhone 6, thus bidding farewell to the dark days of 16GB.

"Anyone who buys the 16GB will regret it." Too many people around me have made such complaints.

Why does the 16GB iPhone 6S still exist in this world?

Why is Apple still selling 16GB iPhones? iMore analyzed it from various aspects, but they also stated that this is not to find excuses for Apple, but to find the reasons:

- The MLC flash memory used in the low-capacity version is much more expensive than the TLC flash memory used in the high-capacity version. If the capacity is increased to 32GB, the cost will be much higher. Maintaining the 16GB specification can keep the basic price of the contract machine at $199, and the cost will not increase too much.

- Basic pricing is still important for enterprises, education and other fields. They often purchase equipment in batches. If the iPhone can maintain the lowest price, it can save a lot from the perspective of corporate expenditure. The 16GB capacity is not a big problem for these applications.

- From the perspective of maximizing profits, the existence of the 16GB version of the iPhone is also very reasonable. In the past three quarters, Apple's total global iPhone sales have reached nearly 200 million units, with a year-on-year growth rate of more than 35% - at least for now, Apple has no worries about attracting users to buy iPhones through the lowest-priced entry-level models. TheVerge and iMore both believe that the existence of the 16GB version will make the 64GB version of the iPhone more valuable, making people more inclined to buy the latter. The higher-priced 64GB version will of course have greater profits than the 16GB version.

Ultimately, it’s all about maximizing profits.

If you must use it, how should you use it?

Well, we should have reached a consensus not to buy a 16GB iPhone, but there are always some surprises in life, such as you winning an iPhone in a lottery (the merchants I have seen winning lotteries all sold 16GB versions), or a friend who has not seen this article bought you a 16GB iPhone as a gift (hurry up and forward this article to your friends).

In any case, if you really receive a 16GB iPhone, either sell it to someone else or continue reading.

Foreign media such as Wired have helped us summarize some methods on how to survive in the gap of 16GB. To sum it up: use the cloud more and store less things locally.

Turn off Live Photos

This is a new feature on iPhone 6S. It records a video while you take a photo. When you see the video, you will know that this will take up a lot of space. Hurry up and set this feature to off by default, because you only have 16GB.

Moreover, the main camera of iPhone 6S has been upgraded from 8 million pixels to 12 million pixels, and the front camera has been upgraded from 1.2 million pixels to 5 million pixels, which means that every photo taken with iPhone 6S will take up more space than previous iPhones.

Don’t shoot 4K video

Well, being able to shoot 4K video doesn’t mean you have to shoot it. One minute of 4K video will take up nearly 370MB of space, which means that 10 minutes of 4K video can take up nearly 4GB of storage space.

iCloud Photo Library

iCloud Photo Library allows you to store the original photos in iCloud and store the compressed version on your phone. A 1MB photo will only take up about 100KB of space on your phone after compression. It is very useful for saving space. I also relied on it to get through the last days of using the 16GB version of the iPhone.

However, iCloud accounts only have 5GB of free space. You will not be able to continue backing up after exceeding the limit. Moreover, the local maps stored on the phone are fine if you don’t enlarge them. Once you enlarge them to view the details, they will be full of scars. You get what you pay for.

Use services such as Apple Music, QQ Music, and NetEase Cloud Music

These services allow you to listen to music online, but there is a problem. When you are out and about and there is no Wi-Fi, you probably won’t be willing to use your precious data to listen to music online.

Clean up WeChat more

The pictures and videos you receive every day will be cached in your mobile phone. Especially in some groups with a large number of people, there may be thousands of messages in a day. The space occupied over a long period of time is too scary and can easily exceed 1GB.

Well, after looking around, you will find that this is really not a long-term solution. Half of the new features of iPhone 6S are useless, so before buying the 16GB version, you must think twice, think twice, and think again.

By the way, after about 9 months of almost no cleanup, my 64GB iPhone is only about 10% full.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.