I am currently using an iPhone 12. It is the base model without any suffixes, and only has 128 GB of memory. Since Apple releases a new phone each year, my phone is only three years old. Ever since I bought it, the battery performance has been total shit. I remember looking at the battery status early on and seeing “service” already. I have run out of battery many times during the day, especially when I need to take lots of photos and cannot recharge.
Right now, I am trying to update the system to iOS 17.1.1. I have about 8 GB of memory free, but that is not enough for the update, and the installer is temporarily removing apps. I just bought an Apple Watch 9 so I can upgrade my Watch 6 and give it to my mom. I am self-imposing a limit of one Apple device per year, so an iPhone upgrade will have to wait another year.
- 2020: iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6
- 2021: MacBook Pro 14″ with M1Pro
- 2022: iPad Pro
- 2023: Apple Watch 9
During the past few years, I also bought the larger iPad Pro for my dad, and the smaller iPad Pro and iPhone 14 Max for my mom. Starting with a used Apple II+ in the early 1980’s, I have been a very loyal Apple customer. They have good products, but Apple corporate is crap, much like my experience with Tesla.
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The update failed. I got an error message saying that I need 4.86 GB of free memory. That is fine, but I have more than 8 GB free:
Maybe the update process already deleted some apps since there was only about 6 GB free when I started the update process. The phone is updating right now after I started the process again. I hope it will remember what happened before the update failure and restore the deleted apps afterwards.
Also, please please do not brick my iPhone on the update.
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Whew! The update is complete. However, now I show 114.26 GB out of 128 GB used. Was that the system deleting the temporary update files, or my iPhone forgetting to restore deleted apps?
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