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Testing by Bilibili channel Homolab found that the 1TB iPhone 18 Pro Max, which uses QLC NAND flash for higher storage capacity, suffers major write speed drops once its cache buffers are exhausted. Sustained writes can fall to as low as 25.6 MB/s fresh out of the box, and to just 1.1 MB/s once the phone is 60% full, far behind the 512GB TLC-based iPhone 18 Pro.
Apple's free iCloud storage is capped at 5GB, which is often too little to hold a typical photo library, messages, and app data. Apple's iCloud+ paid tiers start at 50GB for $0.99/month, with a 200GB option at $2.99/month being the most popular choice for syncing large photo and video collections across devices.
Apple's Settings > General > iPhone Storage screen reveals lesser-known space hogs beyond obvious apps and media, such as forgotten downloads, cached data, and message attachments. Users are advised to review this breakdown to identify items they may have overlooked when clearing space.