I just read that the Apple Watch has 32GB internal storage since the S5/SE. That's quite a lot for a watch, isn't it? I am just curious how do people utilize those storage (other than the obvious offline music listening)? I mean it's not that long ago that we have 32GB storage on phones....
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Apple Watch S7 32GB storage, how much do you use?
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I'm on a Series 5, but it also has 32 GB of storage. At present, I'm using 19.3 GB. 9 GB of music, 4 GB of podcasts. Everything else that shows up in the storage list is 100 MB or less, but it doesn't seem to list photos in there. I do have 529 photos on the watch, but not sure how much space that takes up.
Between the OS and the music, about 8.5gb. Not that it matters, because WatchOS is convinced that I’m out of storage and deletes my music. Super fun.
Edit: I have been enlightened that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, restricts how much music one can store on their Apple Watch. While that doesn’t make sense, what’s even more confounding is I’m punished for attempting to add too much by having all of my music offloaded. Stupefying. Silicon Valley shenanigans.
Edit: I have been enlightened that Apple, in their infinite wisdom, restricts how much music one can store on their Apple Watch. While that doesn’t make sense, what’s even more confounding is I’m punished for attempting to add too much by having all of my music offloaded. Stupefying. Silicon Valley shenanigans.
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10GB here. 4GB is music (synced playlists for the gym) ... I guess I could sync more music, but I have everything I actually want, on the watch. My iPhone has 12GB of music, so I guess I could just sync it all.
Nope, you can’t. Media storage is limited to a quarter of overall storage ;-)
... unless they have changed this in one of the later updates
This is correct, with the apparent caveat that if you sync only 1 music playlist, it can exceed the quarter total. Which I found out quite by accident & would have been using for a lot longer had I known. In my case, I have one music playlist with 9 GB of music, plus my podcasts which are another 4 GB, so a total of 13 GB.
I think photos are part of it, but I'd also guess that after the issues they had with upgrading the Series 3, they are leaving a ton of space for the OS updates. I have as many photos as I can add to the watch added (at least as many as I can figure out how to add, which is 500), plus a few audiobooks, 4 GB of podcasts & 9 GB of music, and I still have 13 GB of space left.
My S6 is using 5.6gb of 32gb. I store no music or pictures only apps and their data..
I just checked my 7 and I have used 15.1 GB of my 32 GB. I use iCatcher & Audible a lot & listen to iCatcher Podcasts on the internal speaker as I work around the house....
