I do need to add that my fiancés iPhone 14 apparently does not have a SIM card slot only esim and I do not know if there is a difference on the carriers end. My 13 does have a slot and I only use it and never have used esim before.

I put a T-Mobile sim in it and have travelled to South America and the Caribbean using sims from multiple providers while there. I have not had an issue with locking in years I have also done this with phones purchased from Samsung and Google.

Just buy from Apple direct. I always buy phones from the manufacturer because I swap sims often and travel so having a locked phone is not an option.

I believe it’s like 20MB a photo compared to 2MB a photo so takes up about 10 times the space but I have a 512GB iPhone, 2TB of iCloud storage, and 100TB on my NAS at home so I’m not hurting for storage and it doesn’t affect me as I offload all my photos to my NAS so if I ever run out of device or iCloud storage I can just remove some as they are all on my NAS.

Use ProRAW I stopped letting my 13 process the photos because the processing just wasn’t that good when I first got it last year. I prefer the more realistic unprocessed look that ProRAW gives plus if I wanted I can edit it on my phone/iPad/PC if I feel like touching up something later.

I have the belkin MagSafe tree I love it. It has a pad on the base for my AirPods the MagSafe disk for my phone and a Apple Watch charger. $140 is steep but I have loved having everything in one for my nightstand.