Available music storage on AW5

[Banan911]

Hey guys and girls.

I’m deciding between a discounted AW4 and a new AW5. Storage is doubled in AW5, but how much can you actually use for music. Has anyone tried?

 

[chabig]

I think you can use half for music—16GB. There is another thread about that if I recall.

Edit: I think it’s 1/4, as Bazooka-joe says.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

Around 7.5 gb. No more than the S4.

 

[deeddawg]

Around 7.5 gb. No more than the S4.

My understanding is that approximate 1/4 of the total storage is available for local storage for the Music app. So that'd be ~4GB on an S4 and ~8GB on the S5.

I don't remember ever seeing more than almost-4GB on my S4 but I also never upgraded it to WatchOS6 so maybe something changed.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

My understanding is that approximate 1/4 of the total storage is available for local storage for the Music app. So that'd be ~4GB on an S4 and ~8GB on the S5.

I don't remember ever seeing more than almost-4GB on my S4 but I also never upgraded it to WatchOS6 so maybe something changed.

I am pretty sure that i could store almost 8gb on my S4. It was the same for the S3 Cellular as that had 16gb of total storage where as the non-cellular S3 only had 8gb of storage

 

[Shirasaki]

I could actually put a little over 8GB music into Apple Watch series 4. I think the series 5 can store more, but have no way to prove it. What I do believe is I should be able to store over 10GB on my watch. Will need to resync Watch with my phone tonight to find out.

 

[Banan911]

Seems to be very conflicting opinions about the issue. I actually called Apple yesterday and they didn’t even know. My question was sent to software engineers for further questioning 😆

Still waiting for the response. Will let you know when I get it.

In the meanwhile it would mean the world to me if someone would actually try to max out the AW5 for me. Thx

 

[perezr10]

I can’t get more than 8GB on my Series 5. And when I maxed out my music, podcasts stopped downloading.

And maybe there was a Software update or something, but I couldn’t get more than 4GB on my Series 4. But that was when the Series 4 first came out.