The Necessity of Purchasing a 1TB iPhone: Explained and Analyzed

2024-02-09 01:52:30

After the Apple iPhone 13 Pro series launched the 1TB ultra-large memory capacity (ROM) model in 2021, it officially announced that the flagship mobile phone has officially entered the TB capacity stage. However, because cloud storage space services are currently quite popular, and it is expensive to purchase a 1TB ROM memory model, some people have always thought that “buying a 1TB iPhone is a waste?” and question the necessity of purchasing a 1TB memory model. However, there must be a reason why the industry will launch a 1TB ultra-large-capacity machine, and there are always many users who use up to 1TB of memory.
Why do iPhone users who have purchased 1TB of memory still use up the memory? The following is an explanation and analysis based on the actual experience of Apple fans who have used up to 1TB of memory:

How much data can be stored in 1 TB of ROM memory in a mobile phone?
1 TB memory (ROM) capacity is equal to 1,000 GB or 1,000,000 MB. If you take photos with a 12-megapixel camera, it can store 250,000 photos; or 250 movies or 500 hours of DVD high-definition videos; or 6.5 million pages stored in Office General documents such as files, PDFs, presentations, etc. are definitely more than enough for ordinary users to use normally.

Why are there still people who have bought a mobile phone with 1TB memory and still have not enough memory? There are two main reasons:

1. Storing too many high-definition photos and videos:

According to Taiwanese fruit fans who shared their experience of using up 1TB of memory, the main reason for the problem was that the photos stored on the phone accounted for 708.11GB. Although the netizen said that the photos will be uploaded to the cloud, the photo files may be too large to be uploaded to the cloud smoothly, causing them to get stuck in the ROM memory of the phone over time.

Although the size of photos taken in general is only about 1MB to 3MB, Apple has started to support it since the launch of the iPhone 12 series[ProRAW】 format for taking photos, allowing users to edit photo details later to gain more flexibility. If you use the 12-megapixel[ProRAW]format to take photos, the capacity of each photo will increase to about 25MB. Since the main lens cameras of iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have been upgraded to 48 million pixels, if you use the 48 million pixel[ProRAW]format to take pictures, the capacity of each photo will be as high as about 75MB. If the user is a hobby photographer and uses the[ProRAW]format every time he takes a photo, even if he purchases 1TB of memory, it will indeed be insufficient.

2. Use China QQ or WeChat to collect a large number of chat records:

Mainland China’s self-made APPs usually take up more memory space due to poor optimization and the need to comply with national stability maintenance policies. Among them, if you are a heavyweight user of China’s QQ or WeChat, the huge chat history (especially voice chat) will become Become a “memory assassin”. If necessary cleaning is not done on time, it is easy to use up 1TB of memory capacity! A netizen shared a screenshot of the storage space of his mother using a 1TB iPhone. Just chatting on QQ and WeChat used up 675 GB of memory space. No wonder 1TB of memory is not enough!

Since the camera functions of current flagship mobile phones are getting closer and closer to professional single-lens cameras, and the chat records of various social software and downloaded game apps take up a lot of ROM space, if the user does not develop the habit of clearing the memory space of the mobile phone, Even if the memory capacity exceeds 1TB, it is still easily exhausted.Therefore, developing the habit of regularly reviewing photos/videos, deleting unused apps, clearing the cache of social software, caching data, modifying camera options, etc. is a good way to avoid exploding the memory capacity of your phone.