ah another cell phone vs real camera vent....well what the heck I'll add my 2 cents. Cell phones can take great images for snaps, quick and dirties...but they will never capture: an eagle in flight, an F-22 in after burner mode etc.....none of my photo friends have ever shown me a 20 x 30 print of their cell phone images....Yes I like my cell phone and I take pictures with it. Great pictures are taken with tools, what tools and how we use those tools is up to us as well as the final products a hard copy print, enlargement, or finally, for most people a web/internet display. To each his own.

You might want to check the eclipse site https://eclipse2024.org. If you use their eclipse simulator it will give you a good estimate how long the entire event will take at any location under the path. Then you can figure out a time lapse of your preference. Where I live it will take a bit more than 2 1/2 hrs. To me, a five - ten minute lapse should give me plenty of shots -no clouds, of course. Especially, since I'll have to center the image frequently. I have Photoshop, which has no issue putting different shots in one image.

I was in White House, Tennessee for the last eclipse. Truly an unforgettable experience. Once you see one you are hooked. We were lucky as there were no clouds. I didn’t have a Sun filter, so my only exposures were of totality and the ring effect. What filter did you use? I wonder if a $100 filter will be much better than a cheaper one, in terms of the image produced.

Cool things you can try is to bracket the totality and with some manipulation get more detail of the corona. Also, it is neat to step back and shoot the totality together with the stars and planets visible.