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Will you increase the max storage plan of 2TB? My phone has used all of it and I need more storage.

Will you increase the max storage plan of 2TB? My phone has used all of it and I need more storage.

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 15

Posted on Dec 14, 2021 11:04 AM

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Dec 15, 2021 10:12 AM in response to Edd Thompson Jr

Edd Thompson Jr wrote:

Is that all the storage I need now?


Only you can know the answer to that.


Could you explain how your question is related to the original question?


If you need more iCloud+ storage up to 4 TB, by all means rent it.


But if you're out of iPhone storage, adding iCloud storage won't help—beyond giving you a place to manually or automatically offload some of what's stored on your iPhone. And if you're already doing all of that as many folks are, you're still going to have to (manually) manage the iPhone internal storage.


And iCloud+ won't help with a 16 GB iPhone, or pretty much any other iPhone with too little storage for your current and likely future needs. Saving money at purchase time can unfortunately cost in time and effort managing that (insufficient) internal storage over the life of the iPhone.


As been linked here before, you will absolutely need to understand the difference between iCloud+ storage and internal storage too, as described in the following link ➡️ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206504

Dec 14, 2021 3:48 PM in response to babylyne

You may need to reconsider your storage plan.


iCloud storage is best used to a) offload little-used data from your device to iCloud, with an automatic restore-on-use model, and b) synchronize data between devices.


If you are actually using 2TB in iCloud storage, have enabled the offload options, and are still out of room on your device, then you're exceeding the design of iCloud Storage. You may need to look at some kind of cloud storage service geared towards your use case (for example there are many services geared towards large photo libraries, large file storage, backup/archiving, etc.)

Dec 14, 2021 4:25 PM in response to babylyne

iCloud+ currently permits up to 4 TB.


This can be useful for offloading some (more) of what is stored on the iPhone.


An iPhone with internal storage insufficient for your current and future needs can and will require ongoing management.


stedman1 linked to an article you will want to review; on the difference between internal and iCloud+ storage.


No matter how much iCloud+ storage you might have, apps will still require sufficient local internal storage for your current task.


There is no means to upgrade internal storage. iCloud+ gives you a place to put some of what you don’t want to delete.

Will you increase the max storage plan of 2TB? My phone has used all of it and I need more storage.

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