There has been a couple of sketchy suggestions over the weekend suggesting that the iPhone 15 Pro storage tiers may max out at 2TB, with one of them a reference to the lineup starting at 256GB instead of 128GB.
While this idea might relate to earlier reports that Apple will be increasing the price of this year’s Pro models, we would urge caution given the sources …
Current storage tiers
All four iPhone 14 models start at the same 128GB base storage, with options for more. Currently, the only difference with the two Pro models is that they offer a fourth tier of 1TB, while the base and Plus models max out at 512GB:
- 128GB
- 256GB
- 512GB
- 1TB (iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max only)
The 128GB starting point has long been considered a somewhat embarrassing amount of storage to offer, especially for the Pro models.
iPhone 15 Pro storage rumors
Korean blogger yeux1122 says that this year’s Pro models will max out at 2TB.
This is the supplier source. The Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Max models will have a new 2-tera option this time.
A Weibo user echoes this, and adds that the storage tiers might this year start at 256GB.
The series will provide up to 2TB of storage space. Compared with the maximum storage, I hope the starting point is 256GB instead of 128GB. After all, the price has risen.
This would see the Pro model tiers doubled at each level:
- 256GB
- 512GB
- 1TB
- 2TB
Neither report has any word on the base iPhone 14 or iPhone 14 Plus storage tiers.
9to5Mac’s Take
Top comment by Dafty
A reminder that there is a massive market for single use phones now that the iPod touch has been killed off. Service people, mobile kiosk, those handheld checkouts at the Apple Store. These types of use sell a ton of phones, and when you only run a single app 100% of the time, spending extra for 256GB of storage, when honestly 32GB would be fine is a hard pill to swallow.
For a huge portion of business use, even 128 is overkill. Sure for normal consumers a bump to 256GB as standard would be nice, but don't poo-poo over the need for cheap lower tier phones. (Again, especially now that the iPod touch is gone, which was perfect for this stuff)
If true, these storage tiers would make the rumored price increase more palatable – at least, a $100 increase. However, neither report can be considered solid.
While MacRumors cites the Weibo user as saying the 256GB starting point is “likely,” that part of the actual post appears to be expressing more of a hope.
Additionally, yeux1122’s track record is mixed. They have gotten enough things right in the past to give some credence to their reports, but most recently been part-right, part-wrong about both the iPad mini 6 and iPhone SE 3, wrong about the iPad Air storage tiers, and wrong about the RAM in the iPhone 14 Pro.
That being the case, we’d suggest taking this one with a fairly large pinch of salt.
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