iPhone 6 Plus 16gb - its only 11gb

[daveherron]

Got my iPhone 6 Plus 16gb today - loks like i was one of the lucky ones.

Well the thing is, I have used 6.6GB and have 5.3GB left.  Someway short of the 16gb I thought i had bought.

Surely IOS 8 is not 4.1 GB in size???  Other iPhones i have had have had way more space available than this.

Leaves a bit of a sour taste 

[drey_p]

Hi there

4.1 GB sounds about right - the iPhone 5C only has 12.6GB actual space with IOS 7 taking up 3.4GB.  The difference between OS's sounds about right.

If you aren't happy, you can always return the handset and cancel you upgrade.  

[jht87]

Part of this is also in the numbers, the way companies sell harddrives and storage is they sell 16gb as 16,000,000,000 bytes. But its actually 1024 bytes in a KB, 1024 kb in a MB, 1024MB in a GB - as such 16gb actually only makes 14,90 gb really. Its annoying, my 64GB 6 plus (when i eventually get it) will only be 59.6gb. silly

[SkylineLvr]

My 128GB 6+ is actually only 114GB. It's still more than enough for me.

I will say this about the Plus, it's a big phone, but surprisingly not as big as I feared. I don't have extremely large hands, but this baby fits perfectly. I just can't put it down. The battery life so far is amazing. My wife is going to hate me this weekend, lol.

For those still waiting for their phones, I understand your frustration, but guarantee you won't be disappointed in this phone.