Still happening is anyone having the same issue?

[fitgirl]

I’ve posted about this before but I’m posting again cause this is really frustrating me, I have only 1 app on my watch, and then it’s says that I’ve used 3.2 of storage, it then says that my email is taking 18.4MB of space which is more then my phone email storage and I’ve got no emails stored. I don’t know where all the storage is going to makes no sense. Anyone having this same issue?

 

[wilberforce]

There are various definitions of "used."
For example, caches and trash may occupy storage, but are purgeable, and are released if the storage is needed for something else.
So it depends, for example, if purgeable storage is include in "used" or not.
This is why in MacOS and iOS different amounts of "used" are reported in different places, because "used" has various definitions.
I suggest just don't worry about it. Especially as you are worried about MBs, when you have GBs of storage.
Otherwise you will just drive yourself crazy trying to add up numbers that by definition don't add up.

 

[fitgirl]

There are various definitions of "used."
For example, caches and trash may occupy storage, but are purgeable, and are released if the storage is needed for something else.
So it depends, for example, if purgeable storage is include in "used" or not.
This is why in MacOS and iOS different amounts of "used" are reported in different places, because "used" has various definitions.
I suggest just don't worry about it. Especially as you are worried about MBs, when you have GBs of storage.
Otherwise you will just drive yourself crazy trying to add up numbers that by definition don't add up.

so the purgeable storage will delete on its own? Sorry I’m just a bit confused lol, and for my email it says that it’s taking up more storage on my watch the my iPhone which is odd, every week I lose a bit more storage, I actually called Apple earlier today and they have escalated it to technical support and will get back to me this weekend to let me know what they find so who knows, sometimes I think Apple doesn’t always have all the answers lol

 

[wilberforce]

18.4MB is minuscule, less than 1/1000th of the storage, and is for all intents and purposes effectively zero. It could just be various small temp files. Who knows. It does not qualify as an "issue."

I suggest ask questions when your email is using GBs.

Here is what my usage looks like, I don't know if this helps.

 

[fitgirl]

18.4MB is minuscule, less than 1/1000th of the storage, and is for all intents and purposes effectively zero. It could just be various small temp files. Who knows. It does not qualify as an "issue."

I suggest ask questions when your email is using GBs.

Well when I got my watch a month ago it said I had used 1.5 gigs of storage and now it’s up to 3.2gigs, every week it keeps dropping if it keeps going like this then the end of a year so I’ll be down to little storage.

 

[fitgirl]

18.4MB is minuscule, less than 1/1000th of the storage, and is for all intents and purposes effectively zero. It could just be various small temp files. Who knows. It does not qualify as an "issue."

I suggest ask questions when your email is using GBs.

Well when I got my watch a month ago it said I had used 1.5 gigs of storage and now it’s up to 3.2 and it keeps dropping, if it keeps up like this then I’ll be out of storage within a year or so, also it says that I have 15 photos however I have no photos saved on my watch.

 

[wilberforce]

Well when I got my watch a month ago it said I had used 1.5 gigs of storage and now it’s up to 3.2 and it keeps dropping, if it keeps up like this then I’ll be out of storage within a year or so, also it says that I have 15 photos however I have no photos saved on my watch.

That's a pretty big "if" in there.
If the stock market keeps dropping I will have no money left.
If I keep losing weight I will eventually weigh zero.
Not gonna happen.

I have had Apple watches for 4 years and never come anywhere close to running out of storage, despite inexplicable usage listings.
You will be fine. There is nothing wrong with your watch.
btw, I have 22 photos on my watch, and it reports 33. Who knows why. It's always been like this.

 

[wilberforce]

btw, I just deleted all the photos on my watch.
It now reports that I have 15 photos. Same as yours does. It is fine.

 

[fitgirl]

btw, I just deleted all the photos on my watch.
It now reports that I have 15 photos. Same as yours does. It is fine.

Thank you I really do appreciate your help and I apologize if I came across as crazy paranoid person lol.

 

[wilberforce]

Thank you I really do appreciate your help and I apologize if I came across as crazy paranoid person lol.

Not at all, part of the reason for these forums. Much better to ask than be worried

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Thank you I really do appreciate your help and I apologize if I came across as crazy paranoid person lol.

My S6 says I have 15 photos on it and there is none in the photos app... I really wouldn't worry about space considering the watch has 32gb of storage and my iPhone 5S only had 16gb back in 2013..

 

[fitgirl]

Not at all, part of the reason for these forums. Much better to ask than be worried

Hi so it still seems to be dropping, I did call Apple and they said this is a glitch, I just checked my husbands series 1 and his storage all adds up accordingly, has your storage gone up any?