Unlike other Apple devices, your Apple Watch does not come with a lot of built-in storage space to store Music, Podcasts, Photos or Apps. The amount of storage space that comes with your Apple Watch varies depending upon the version of Apple Watch you own. With the Series 6, SE, 5, you get 32GB of storage space. With the Series 4 and Cellular + GPS model of the Series 3, you get 16GB of storage space. With the Series 3 GPS model, you get only 8gb of storage space. All of that storage is not available to you, because the operating system requires some of the space too. Our 32GB Apple Watch gives us the total available capacity of 26.5GB. The rest is reserved for the operating system. Depending on the content that you download or sync with your Apple Watch, you might easily run out of storage space. Running out of storage space may stop you from being able to download and install new software updates on your Apple Watch. Here’s what you need to do if you are running out of storage space:
Clearing up storage space on Apple Watch
First, you might want to check how much storage is available on your Apple Watch. To do this:
How to check available storage space on Apple Watch
You can check how much available storage space your Apple Watch has, directly from the Watch app on your iPhone: Here, the app will display the total number of songs, photos, and external applications installed on the Apple Watch. It will also show the total capacity and the amount of space currently available on your Apple Watch. If you want to check the available storage space you have from your Apple Watch: The storage section displays the available capacity and how much storage you have used. Scroll down to get further details on how much space is taken by each app. In many cases, you will see that most of the storage space is taken by the apps that you have downloaded media from. For example, Podcasts, Apple Music, etc. Now let’s move on to the steps of how to free up space on Apple Watch.
Removing unwanted apps from Apple Watch:
Now that you found out which apps are eating up most of the storage space on your Apple Watch, it is time to eliminate them. If the Home screen on your Apple Watch is in grid view, you can do this by long-pressing on the apps on your Apple Watch and then tapping the little X icon on each app to delete them, just like you would on an iPhone, but this is a quite slow way to do it. If the Home screen of your Apple Watch is in List View: If you want a faster approach to deleting apps, follow along:
Removing Music from Apple Watch:
If music is the culprit that’s eating most of the storage space on your Apple Watch, then you might want to delete it. To do this using iPhone: To delete any previously downloaded music on your Apple Watch:
Removing Photos from Apple Watch:
If you want to delete the photos stored on your Apple Watch: Your watch will then update the synced settings.
Removing Podcasts from Apple Watch:
If you like podcasts, you can listen to them on your Apple Watch, but if you’re storing them on the device, you can remove them through the Watch app: That’s it for this article. We hope this helps you free up storage space on your Apple Watch to download and install watchOS updates. If you still have any query on how to free up space on Apple Watch, feel free to drop a comment in the comments section below. Also, share this article with your friends and family.
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