You can use the storage space on your Apple Watch for music, podcasts, photos and apps, among other things. Your smartwatch can fill up quickly, but luckily there are ways to free up some storage space.
How much storage your watch has depends on the model. The first, second and third generation watches have 8GB of storage, while the Apple Watch Series 4 has 16GB. The Apple Watch Series 5 and Apple Watch SE are even equipped with 32 GB. As with many Apple devices, it’s not possible to buy more storage, so you’ll have to be frugal with the space you have. Because you can never use the entire storage space: approximately 3 GB is already taken up by the operating system. The new operating system that will be released in the fall, watchOS 8, will also take up about the same amount of space.
Gain insight into storage guzzlers
If you want to free up space on your watch, you can of course randomly remove some apps from your phone, but Apple makes it a little easier for you and offers insight into which apps take up the most space on your watch. This way you avoid removing apps that don’t actually take up much space at all.
Go to the Watch app on your smartphone and choose My Watch for the watch you want to clean. below General do you choose Usage. At the top of the screen you can see how much storage space is in use per app. This is the total space that the app takes up, so including, for example, songs stored in the Music app. The biggest storage eaters are at the top of the list. Usually these are the apps with which you have downloaded media on your watch, so think of music, but also podcasts and audiobooks.
Delete apps
Now that you know which apps are taking up the most space, you can delete the ones you don’t use. You can do this by holding down the app icon on your Apple Watch and then pressing the cross, just like you would on the iPhone is doing.
A faster way is to go in the Watch app on your phone to Available apps. below Installed on Apple Watch you can uninstall apps or remove media.
You can also prevent media from automatically downloading to your watch, such as podcasts that appear every week. For example, in the case of podcasts, you can go to Podcasts go into the Watch app on your phone. Choose here instead of Listen now in front of Amended. You can then decide whether and when you want to download the podcasts.
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