Yeah, it's no good. I have a 16 GB model. I've bought into the iCloud-powered photos syncing, but yet somehow there is never space on my phone. The whole point was to automatically move photos to the cloud, yet 9/10 times I open my camera, it says "Not enough space to take a photo".
This is interesting. I'm in the same situation and I'm about to make the same move. I've tried Carousel by Dropbox and it does an excellent job in keeping space low, while still giving me access to the pictures. I'm now considering iCloud Photo Library for a more integrated experience, but from my first attempts Carouse works way better.
Check which apps are being space hogs. Go to Settings->General->Usage->Manage Storage. Some apps like Twitter don't delete their caches. So you have to delete the app and reinstall it to reclaim the space.
For me, that's the real point. We need developers to care. Apple's come out with APIs for app thinning, and they've had the right and wrong way to cache files forever (etc). But, that dev work doesn't increase downloads of your app, and if no one is looking for compliance, you're better off delivering other features.
Twitter might not even know they have a problem! iOS Dev team members are constantly installing new builds of the app.
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Yeah, it's no good. I have a 16 GB model. I've bought into the iCloud-powered photos syncing, but yet somehow there is never space on my phone. The whole point was to automatically move photos to the cloud, yet 9/10 times I open my camera, it says "Not enough space to take a photo".
This is interesting. I'm in the same situation and I'm about to make the same move. I've tried Carousel by Dropbox and it does an excellent job in keeping space low, while still giving me access to the pictures. I'm now considering iCloud Photo Library for a more integrated experience, but from my first attempts Carouse works way better.
Check which apps are being space hogs. Go to Settings->General->Usage->Manage Storage. Some apps like Twitter don't delete their caches. So you have to delete the app and reinstall it to reclaim the space.
For me, that's the real point. We need developers to care. Apple's come out with APIs for app thinning, and they've had the right and wrong way to cache files forever (etc). But, that dev work doesn't increase downloads of your app, and if no one is looking for compliance, you're better off delivering other features.
Twitter might not even know they have a problem! iOS Dev team members are constantly installing new builds of the app.
"delete the app and reinstall it to reclaim the space"? Now that seems like the real "bad user experience"