How to Buy More Storage on iPhone

Why Doesn’t iPhone Have External Storage?

Nobody except the people at Apple knows exactly why iPhone doesn’t come with expandable external storage. There are theories floating around the internet, but we’ll never know for sure. Here are some of the ideas:

Keeping the Ecosystem Tightly Controlled

Everybody knows that Apple has an obsession to control everything to make sure that they deliver the best of quality for users. Letting anyone prying open the case and slide third-party memory card is the antithesis of that principle.

Keeping the Precious Space for More Precious Things

To improve iPhone, Apple has gone as far as eliminating the headphone jack just to add more space for more electronics. So it’s illogical that Apple will ever add external memory slots.

Keeping the iPhone As Fast As Possible

Apple can keep the standard of memory chip it uses in iPhone in check, but Apple can’t filter external memory. Most of cheap removable memory card that most people use are slow, and Apple doesn’t want that.

Keeping the iPhone from Crashing

Statistics says that up to 30% of reported causes of devices failures caused by external memory card. That might be one of the reasons why Android phones with external memory card slot crashes more than those without.

Keeping the Access to the iPhone only to iPhone

Adding a memory card slot also means opening out phone data access to the third-party. Security is already difficult enough to protect without the external memory slot, and Apple who really holds users’ privacy high doesn’t have any plan to make it worse.

How to Buy More Storage on iPhone

But Apple doesn’t leave the users with no options. Their solution for the fixed storage is the expandable cloud storage called iCloud. Every user will get free 5GB iCloud storage that can be used to store photos, videos, files, and more.

But 5GB might not be enough for most people, so there’s the option to buy more storage. You can choose from a total of 50GB, 200GB, or 2TB. You can even share the 200GB and 2TB plans with your family.

If you are on an iPhone, here’s how you upgrade your storage:

• 1. Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Manage Storage or iCloud Storage. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, go to Settings > iCloud > Storage.

• 2. Tap Buy More Storage or Change Storage Plan.
• 3. Choose a plan.
• 4. Tap Buy and follow the onscreen instructions.

There are also plenty of other cloud storage providers that you can use to expand your iPhone storage with various plan and price. One thing to remember though, you need an active internet connection to access this storage space.

Manage Your iPhone to Reclaim More Storage

On the other side of the coin, you can also add more space to your iPhone by cleaning the existing storage from unnecessary things that clog the space. One tool that can help you to do that is the Tenorshare iCareFone.

This iOS management tool is able to thoroughly manage, delete and export data, greatly accelerate your iOS running speed and protect your privacy security in every single way so that bring you a safer, faster and better iPhone experience.