How to Free Up Storage on Your Apple Watch

How much space?

Today's iPhones have up to 512 GB of storage space. Apple Watch, not so much. The Apple Watch Series 5 has a capacity of 32 GB in comparison. The previous models were only 8 GB.

Two types of files greatly influence the storage space on Apple Watch: songs and photos, with applications, mostly occupy the rest. For the first two, we are talking about files added to Watch for offline use. To find out how much space your Apple Watch is using and how:

1. Touch the application Apple Watch on the home screen of your iPhone.
2. Choose General under My watch tab.
3. Touch Use .

On this screen, you can see how much storage space is used in Apple Watch ordered by the application.

Space disposal

Because Apple Watch's storage capacity is mainly limited to music and photos, it makes no sense to delete applications on the portable device only to save space. The applications themselves do not take up much space. Instead, let's focus on music and photos.

Music

Downloading music to Apple Watch allows you to enjoy your favorite songs and artists without having your iPhone nearby. It is a great advantage, especially if you do not have an Apple Watch with Wi-Fi + Cellular.

To view music stored on Apple Watch:

1. Touch the application Apple Watch on iPhone.
2. Choose Music on the My Clock tab.

On this page, you will find a list of albums and playlists currently installed on Apple Watch. You will also see Apple Music mixes, when applicable. To remove content, you can enable / disable mixes and click on the red "+" to the left of downloaded playlists and albums.

Note : Music is not removed from Apple Watch until the device turns off connected to the power and near your iPhone.

Photos

To adjust the images stored on the Apple Watch, you must reactivate the Watch application on your iPhone.

1. Touch Photos on the My Watch tab in the Apple Watch application.
2. Set the two settings in Photo Synchronization: Synchronized album and Photo Limit .

You can synchronize a photo album on Apple Watch. Naturally, the larger the collection, the more storage is used on Apple Watch. Photo Limit options are 25, 100, 250 or 500 photos.

Applications

You can delete applications on Apple Watch on the real device or using your iPhone. The latter is a simpler process, but we will present both options here.

On iPhone:

1. Touch the application Apple Watch the iPhone home screen.
2. On the My watch touch the application you want to delete.
3. Disable Show application on Apple Watch.

The previous application is no longer installed on your portable device.

On Apple Watch:

1. Tap Digital Crown .
2. In the list view, find the application that you want to delete. Scroll right to the left, then touch Delete .
3. In Grid View, touch and hold the application you want to delete. Touch the X icon next to the application to delete.

Also look at podcasts and audiobooks

There are two other locations on Apple Watch to eliminate valuable storage space: podcasts and audiobooks. Introduced in watchOS 5 and watchOS 6, respectively, both applications can contain large files, depending on their configuration.

To review the configuration of Podcasts:

1. Touch the application Apple Watch on iPhone.
2. Choose Podcasts on the My Clock tab.

When applicable, your Apple Watch will add three unreplayed episodes of each podcast you select on this screen. The information is obtained from the Podcasts application on the iPhone. Disable to remove unplayed podcasts from Apple Watch.

Note : Played podcasts are automatically deleted from Apple Watch.

Audiobooks on Apple Watch work similarly:

1. Touch the application Apple Watch on iPhone .
2. Choose Audiobooks on the My Clock tab.
3. In From the library, scroll from right to left in the audiobook to remove it.
4. Touch Delete to delete.

Final thoughts

If the storage space on your Apple Watch is becoming dangerously low, your best option is to delete music or photo tracks First, since either of these (or both) is almost certainly the culprit. Otherwise, delete unused applications, podcasts or audiobooks to recover space. But again, the conclusion: first look at the music and the photos.