> For a modern decently-high-end smartphone with 128GB of storage Apple stopped selling their 64GiB base model yesterday, I believe, and all of their phones ar

> For a modern decently-high-end smartphone with 128GB of storage Apple stopped selling their 64GiB base model yesterday, I believe, and all of their phones are high-end. In the real world, plenty of people use 64 or even 32GiB phones every day. I've even seen people use 16GiB phones with SD cards. If you have a family member that sends lots of images and video, you can easily fill your phone with messages without the occasional purge. As for clogging up the phone: I find that the more media there is on my phone, the slower file pickers become over time. The files themselves can be tiny hyper-compressed JPEGs, but the thousands of entries in the cache table and kilobyte previews while scrolling still have an impact. It doesn't need to be about storage alone.