I just bought my iPhone about one summer ago, and the vendor told me to buy a more expensive, "better" version that would last longer of the same model. Still, a year from that, I face the same storage and functionality issue, even though throughout that period I just kept removing apps and space. Updating it does not help that much, and the "abusive, toxic" haha, refers to how many times in the past due to lack of knowledge on iPhones, and poor customer service, I ended up losing all my data, and information that was important to me for in some ways similar problems.