What is Series 3 music space limitation? How many GBs exactly? And what is free space available on watch when nothing installed? (no apps, music, nothing). Thank you. P.S.: I am talking about 8GB model.
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Apps Series 3 music space limitation
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I can say for your 8GB model you can potentially have up to 6GB music on your watch. I once hit a point of 10GB on my 16GB model and basically eat away all available space except the last hundred MB. My trick is syncing a playlist that is considerably larger than your watch capacity.
nominally s3 has about 5gb free from blank, but something unspecified is taking ~1gb of space on mine after restoring backup.
Disclaimer: this trick worked on my previous Apple Watch 3 with watchOS 4. Haven’t tested out on my Apple Watch series 4.
First, get a playlist on your iPhone music app ready. It can either be synced music, Apple Music or a mix of those two. If you use Apple Music, you will need a playlist (or several playlists) consist of more than 1600 songs in total. My songs are all synced hi-res music, each one taking from 40MB to upwards 180MB, so I got away with only up to 200 songs.
Second, open Watch app on your iPhone, scroll down to Music, and tap the big “+” button at the top.
You will see a list of filters such as playlist, artist, genre etc. Tap Playlist, and tap the playlist you created.
Apple Watch will attempt to sync this playlist whenever it is charging and connected with your iPhone in the same Wifi network or when your iPhone is near Apple Watch. Syncing music through Wifi is generally much faster than slow Bluetooth. A trick to achieve that is wait until music syncing interface shows “0 of xxx is synced”, then manually disconnect Bluetooth from control center, back to Watch app, there will be a chance Apple Watch will attempt to use Wifi to sync music.
Again, it’s a fun discovery for me when I was trying to sync music to my Apple Watch back then. Please use it at your own discretion.
I did it via playlist but it also get stuck on 2GB transferred music. But that trick with Wi-Fi syncing helped mi a lot, so thank you. But I dont know how to overcome that 2GB limit.
It has to be in Bluetooth settings, since control center does not turn off bt, it just disconnect all device EXCEPT Apple watch.
Yes, I did in settings cause control center does not turn off bluetooth at all.
I normally added albums via music watch app and it allows me to sync on both S4 and S5 8GB of music and after that it stopped syncing. I do not know why it allows you to add only 7,5GB as I do not know why it allows only 2GB on my S2.
OK, I found a link to an article explaining where the 1/4 of the storage came from. Looks like it used to be that way, but changed at some point: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/21/how-to-choose-what-music-gets-stored-on-your-apple-watch
In the stored music section, they mention the 2 GB limit, and that it was changed in a more recent version of watch os.