Nowadays, iPhones come in many versions. You have a lot to choose between: Dimensions, colors, but also between different storage capacities. Are you saying goodbye to your old model and are you going to buy a new one? Then it is of course useful to know how much storage capacity you need. Read on quickly, because we will tell you!
Before we explain which storage capacity suits you best, there are a few things you should know. First of all: a storage space of 128GB, for example, never really gives you 128GB of storage space. The operating system ( iOS ) and a few standard apps also take up space. Are you going to calculate how much storage space you will need? Then add 20% to that to take this into account. It is important that you choose the right storage capacity, because unfortunately you cannot increase it later. You can of course useiCloud to store files externally.
RAM memory
After discussing the different storage capacities of the iPhone, we will also discuss RAM memory in this blog.
32GB iPhone
With this storage capacity you can use a few fixed apps, such as WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram. You can also use the standard functionalities, such as surfing the internet, emailing and Facetime. You have little space locally to store photos, films or music and will have to use cloud services for this. Furthermore, you do not mind cleaning up your device regularly. Do you like to download new apps to try out and are you not much of a cleaner? Then you need more storage capacity.
64GB iPhone
This storage capacity offers enough space for basic use. You can call, WhatsApp and FaceTime and can also download a few apps and games. You can also store some nice photos and your favorite episode or playlists on your device. To free up space again, it is important that you delete unnecessary apps and files and upload photos to the Cloud. Check out our 64GB iPhones here .
128G iPhone
This storage capacity is more than enough for average use of your device. To give you an indication: you can store about 30,000 photos on it! You can try out different apps and download your favorite series or film. If you clean up your device every now and then, you will not run out of space with this storage capacity. Check out our 128GB iPhones here .
256GB iPhone
With this storage capacity you are always good. You can easily download many apps and games without worrying whether you still have enough space. You can store a lot of photos and videos. Do you like to make 4K videos or photos with portrait mode? No problem! Furthermore, you can download multiple episodes of your favorite series and really fanatic cleaning is no longer necessary. Look here for our 256GB iPhones .
512GB iPhone
Do you really do everything on your device, both business and private, and don't want to worry about storage? Then you'll end up with 512GB. This gives you enough space for large programs such as Photoshop or Illustrator and your beautiful creations. Store a lot locally, such as photos and videos, without having to use cloud services. With this storage capacity, you also have more than enough space to easily access your media offline, so feel free to download multiple cool movies for on the go. View our 512GB iPhones here.
1TB iPhone
And it doesn't stop there: the iPhone 13 and 14 Pros are also available with a storage capacity of no less than 1TB (!). Are you a professional photographer or do you want to use the heaviest programs? Then you are good with this storage capacity. On 1TB you can store 200,000 photos or 120 hours of HD videos.
RAM Memory, what does it mean?
We sometimes hear customers at Leapp say: " Why does a iPhone so much less RAM than an Android device? Is it just as good?"
The short answer to this is; An iPhone needs less RAM (also called working memory ) because it uses memory more efficiently. It is not less fast and you can run just as many apps at the same time as on an Android device with a lot of RAM. So there is no comparison between the performance based on the amount of RAM between an Android and an iPhone device.
To go a little deeper into the matter; The RAM memory, which stands for Random Access Memory, is the memory that can be quickly accessed by apps and your operating system. Simply put, as soon as you open an app on your phone, it is loaded onto the RAM memory. The RAM memory can be seen as a large blackboard where all information is temporarily written down.
Just like a blackboard, memory can eventually fill up. However, this will not happen quickly. This has to do with how the operating system handles the processing and handling of it.
And therein lies the big difference between an iPhone and Android devices. Just because Android devices generally have more RAM doesn’t mean they’re faster. This is because there’s a big difference in the way iPhones use RAM and the way Androids use RAM.
Android uses garbage collection to manage RAM. When garbage collection is used to clear RAM, RAM is not immediately freed up. There are several factors that trigger garbage collection, but unused RAM is not freed up until garbage collection has occurred. So Android phones need more RAM in an attempt to keep some of it available.
Android apps also run on Java. There is nothing wrong with that, Java has been around for a while and is a solid platform for developers. However, Android uses a virtual machine to run those Java apps on Android and that takes up a lot of RAM.
Apple designs its hardware and software specifically to work together. Where Android must be able to handle a plethora of chips, Apple only writes code for its own A-series chips. iOS is also written to allocate RAM specifically to an operation as needed and then free it up afterwards, so there is rarely an app taking up space in RAM after it is closed.
Because of this, iPhones and iPads much less RAM than an Android device to run smoothly. Even Android devices with twice the RAM of an iPhone often underperform an iOS device in benchmarks (real world) because their RAM gets clogged up while an iOS device doesn't.
