You can connect external storage to an iPhone, but why would you when all your photos are - or should be - stored in the cloud (as someone has already pointed out)? You can check: go to
Settings > Apps > Photos and check that Optimise iPhone Storage is ticked.
I think your problem may be inefficient use of the storage on your phone. They do get clogged up as time goes by. Might you also have a lot of duplicates? If you delete duplicates, they will remain for a short while (in the Recently Deleted folder in Photos), but you can delete them permanently from there.
That would be a very simple solution but no sd card slot on the iphone, but Chris’s solution looks promising, so will be exploring that when back home at the end of the week.
Yes i’m already buying the additional cloud storage, so think a bit of sorting’s going to be necessary, as think I’m probably also storing a whole load of ‘junk’. Need to patiently have a review!
I used Lumix MFTs for shooting wedding videos for some years - started with a GH1 then got a GX7 and G7, as portable cameras alongside my Canon C100 and XH1 “tripod cameras”.
They are neat little cameras and great for travel. Though mine gather dust now I am so invested in the Fuji system (I have seven Fuji bodies altogether… )
Some time back we were increasingly disappointed wth picture quality from my wifes Panasonic TZ10 and bought an Olympus E-M10 M43 format camera with 14-45 pancake lens. It’s barely bigger than the compact, but capable of much better pictures even just left in program mode. It’s pocketable and pleasing to use.
I’ll trot out the old saw “The best camera is the one you have with you” That’s why phone camera take - I’d guess - 98% of images these days. I must say I am constantly amazed at the quality I get out of my Moto G23. My other cameras barely get a look in.
I have a Canon 7GX, a top of the range compact - and so it should be at +/- €750. I got it because I convinced myself that I had to have a compact that shoots RAW files - image files with zero in-camera processing. It’s all metal, built like a tank, weighs too much
It’s supposed to live in the car, full time but I forget and it languishes indoors while the phone takes all the snaps.
More relevant to your query, I think, is the Canon IXUS240HS. This is a superb compact camera, small but perfectly formed, like Kylie Minogue. Its zoom lens is a very useful 24mm-120mm [35mm lens equivalent]. 24mm is what I consider proper wide angle. 80-100mm is excellent for portraits. 120mm gets you in reasonably close.
Next level up … The M 43 stands for ‘Micro’ 4/3ds. Absolutely brilliant. @ChrisMann will find - maybe it’s already happening - that as one ages, the weight of gear one is prepared to lug about decreases.
I finally parted company with my Nikons - my 35mm cameras of a lifetime - and bought an Olympus M 4/3 E-M1 and some lenses. The camera bag to take this kit is about 1/3 the size of the bag that held the Nikon kit. Weight likewise. The lenses are diminutive wee things but Olympus have a reputation for first class optics.
I’d say that for anyone who finds they would like to graduate to more capability than the best compact can deliver, the Olympus M4/3ds variants are the way to go. There’ s the M1 series, the top of the range [a Mkll will put you in the pro category, when you register one with Olympus], the M5 range, extremely capable and M10, still superb, with reduced fiddlement factor.
The Olympus lenses all fit on these three camera bodies, as do most Lumix [Panansonic] 4/3rds format lenses.
I was finally convinced that M4/3rds produces first class images when I saw a guy print out a landscape 2m wide.
For a great tour around the Olympus 43rds world have a look at the videos of Robin Wong https://www.youtube.com/@robinwong/videos a photographer based in Kuala Lumpur.
But on balance, the Canon IXUS 240 or similar model - they vary mostly on zoom range - will suit.
Phone cameras have come a long way. 10 years ago if I saw something interesting but only had a phone with me then I wouldn’t take a picture because it would ALWAYS be a disappointment. Now I find ours are OK for a record shot. Possibly if we spent £500+ on a phone the camera would be better, but given the choice I’d still prefer to spend the money on a real camera to flatter my meagre ability.
It’s also about having physical controls. Holding a phone still while fiddling with touch screen controls is awkward. And a phone is a very unergonomic device when it comes to taking photos.
That leads to shooting mostly in full auto mode with a phone, which gets you a picture but not always anything creative. And there is satisfaction in setting up a shot with a real camera, making choices about the settings and the lens etc.
TBH outside of angles, bearing in mind that I can see what exposure is going to look like but can’t easily control, a phone isn’t a device that makes me want to be creative.
Might as well just get AI to rustle up the scene you had in mind in the first place.
mine currently has 256gb 
