Watchos 8 is finally available and it's time to update your Apple Watch.Here's how to free up storage space on your Apple Watch?
What is the storage capacity of your Apple Watch?
The quantity of storage on your Apple Watch depends on the version you have.The first, the second and the third generation, the series 1 to 3, have 8 GB (16 GB on the 3 cell series).Apple Watch Series 4 has 16 GB.While the Apple Watch Series 5, the Apple Watch Series 7, the Apple Watch Series 6 and the Apple Watch have 32 GB.
You do not have the entire storage, as the operating system must also live there.On our 32 GB Apple Watch, the total capacity available offers 26.5 GB.The rest is reserved for the operating system.
How many free space Watchos 7 or Watchos 8 need?
The required configuration for Watchos 7 indicates that you must have 3.1 GB of free space on your Apple Watch.Watchos 8 will probably require a similar quantity of free space.
How to release storage space on my Apple Watch?
It is tempting to go to the list of applications on your phone and start deleting things at random, but Apple provides some useful tools that allow you to identify what takes up space on your wrist so that you do not finishnot by deleting things that don't really take up space.You will find them in the Watch application on your phone.
If you have several Apple Watch, make sure you have selected the one you want to analyze in the Watch application before continuing.
First step: find the invaders
The first step is to discover what takes up space.To do this, press general in the Watch application, then scroll the list until you see use.Press.
You should now visualize a screen like the one below, with your storage space available and used as the first information available, then a list of applications on your phone and the space they occupy.
The figures you obtain correspond to the total space, and not only to the application itself.So, for example, the figure you see for your music application includes all the music stored on your Apple Watch.The list is already sorted in order to make the largest applications appear high from the list.
In many cases, you will find that the applications that take the most space are the ones via which you have downloaded the media.For example your Apple Music Playlists offline, your downloaded podcasts or the audio books that you have transferred from audible.
Second step: eliminate problematic applications
Now that you know what are the most polluting applications, you can get rid of the ones you no longer need.It is possible to act on your Apple Watch by pressing at length on the icon of the applications concerned, then by pressing the small X which appears above them.It is however a fairly slow and complicated method, it is better to go through the Watch application of your iPhone.
Return to the Watch application page (the screen entitled "Apple Watch of X", where X is your first name) and scroll it down until you see the installed section of the'Apple Watch.
This displays all the applications currently available on your Apple Watch, and each of them has a small arrow on the right side of the screen.Click on the arrow and you will see a cursor appear: press it to uninstall the application concerned.
Step 3: Modify the parameters
If you find that you often lack storage space because of media downloads such as music or podcasts, it is worth going to the settings of this application to adjust exactly what your Apple Watch Download.In this screenshot, we find ourselves in the application of Podcast Overcast, which allows us to specify which podcasts, if necessary, it must automatically download.
In this case, we only listen to podcasts in the car, so we do not need to download anything: we can always control the podcast from our watch when it is read on our iPhone.