Leaving iOS: Simulated

There's something wrong with my phone. It's incredibly old (iPhone 12, released in 2020, got it in 2022), but that isn't even the worst of it. What's worse is its battery life—you can imagine after so many years of use. But worst of all is its limited storage capacity. I wonder who at Apple thought 64GB was good enough for a smartphone in the 2020s. While this did force me to become an app minimalist (usually I have between 30 and 35 apps installed), other than that, this little memory makes for an awful user experience. It's not even that I download anything to my phone (except for a few podcasts in my queue). I need 60GB alone to have a working phone. In the end it's iOS itself (12GB), system data (12GB), Signal (13GB—I keep my notes here), photos (8GB—but this is only cached data that is impossible to clear) and voice memos (3GB), the rest of my apps take below 1GB of space. Using my phone these days means getting low disk space warnings several times a week, which has me deleting…