The Apple Watch app under general, about will provide the memory size. The 4 had 11.6gb and the 5 26.5 gb.
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Apple Watch Series 3 Owners Now Required to Perform Restore When Updating Due to Storage Constraints
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This is as close to “Buy a new Apple Watch” dialog as the team could get approval on.
Well this sucks to know. I am still on on watchOS 6, but its looking like I might have to upgrade next year. Will still keep using it if they continue to provide updates. The Series 3 really does all I need, primarily for timers, track my walking and notifications. I'm wondering if I should go with Silver next time, since the space gray I bought was on the expensive side.
I'd agree if this was an old device they were just still supporting, but this is something they're still selling, and that's pretty crappy.
Remember when they did EKG and pulse-ox measurements? Oh wait!
I was able to upgrade without having to do this. I have the GPS + Cellular version, which comes with 16 GB instead.
I knew someday it will be worth paying the extra $$.
I knew someday it will be worth paying the extra $$.
Remember when your Rolex watch could be used for contactless payments?
I don't either.
The extra sad news is that Apple support didn’t seem to know this was required. My wife battled upgrades for weeks before Apple finally gave her this solution.
I did the same, went from 2 hour AW3 updates to about 12 minutes with my new SE. For me it was worth the cost.
Actually I never had any issue with the AW3, I was happy with it except this update process became unbearable. I do like the 40mm SE display though, remarkable that extra 2mm could make such a difference
Well, 8GB is meagre by 2021 standard. But then again, I have a Series 5 (which has 32GB) yet I can't keep too many Apple Music files in it. There is some sort of limit of how many songs I can download for offline (workout) playback, seems to be limited at around 4GB . Anything more and it will give endless spinning while syncing Music to the Watch.
Why give users 32GB while Apple locked only 4GB for Music? Come on, storage partition is like the old days of Android!!
Why give users 32GB while Apple locked only 4GB for Music? Come on, storage partition is like the old days of Android!!
from reading the article, it is not clear for me if I have to do the unpair-repair-dance as well with the 16 GB S3 LTE version? I have 8,6 GB of free space left on there! If that's not enough, I just won't update any more. Due to unpairing-repairing in the past I already have 5 "different" apple watches in my Apple Health app as input source and it's annoying. They're all called the same.
You are quite conveniently ignoring that they are still selling it as of today! I got one of these for my daughter as a birthday present about 6 months ago, and while still under warranty, it is having this issue now! I got her the 3 because of the 38mm. How annoying and ignorant of Apple!
Going through the extra step? You have no idea what you are talking about, clearing apps is 100+ extra steps. Uninstall all 3rd party apps, remove music, data, pictures, restart several times until AW notices you uninstalled something, and then after the update, install everything back. In-between you run into several bugs.
I had to do this on s3 already for some time and restoring is the way even for an expert user. Cannot imagine my mom going trough the process of uninstalling.