Why is apple holding my iPhone hostage?

It keeps popping up a message saying "Storage almost full" You can manage your storage in settings. Like I already deleted so much stuff already. Also, why it gotta keep popping up its not even full. Like does it want me to overload the capacity or something? Is there an option to turn this bug off?

Because it needs some free space to keep working!

If it gets literally 100% full, it will start crashing or stop working at all.

Remember it is a type of computer and needs some free workspace. A typical desktop or laptop will start acting up when you get down to much below 20% free space and you may not be able to do any updates to the operating system.

If it's a phone with only a small amount of storage to start with (8GB or 16GB) it's far more critical as the operating system takes around 4GB of that before you add anything - and a it needs a lot of space to unpack and install any updates. You really need at least 2GB free at any time - which means not a lot of usable space on an 8GB phone…
That's really a "business phone", it will make phone calls but is not much use for things beyond that.

The rule is always buy the ones with largest storage, so you always have plenty of free space.

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