Apple watch storage full

I've been having the same issue as well with the Apple Watch Series 3 since June (and this is a replacement watch).

I'm running Watch OS 6.2.8 on an iPhone X with iOS 13.7.

Constantly getting "Storage Full" message - at least weekly now (when it was more every 3 weeks-monthly prior).

I have no music, a total of 5 photos, and 2 apps typically installed on my watch. The apps are MapMyFitness & Duo Authentication App.

I would get quite a few emails & texts, I updated my settings on the watch to not receive those notifications on there.

Still seeing "Storage Full" - I'm at my wits end...not sure if it's the watch or the OS causing these issues.

Sorry, it's not much of an update, per se...but hopefully, my information will help try & pinpoint a possible cause (?)

Thanks to everyone for your input...

Not yet...wouldn’t you know I just received another “Storage Full” notification on my watch. So I need to reset yet again before I can even attempt to install.

Good luck to everyone else. I really hope it fixes this issue.

Say, I have not been able to upgrade my watch to WatchOS7.

I’ve tried resetting & re-pairing it twice. I’ve erased much of the old or duplicate data from my Health app and really only keep 2 apps & 5 photos on my watch (though it says there’s 16 on there, have no clue where they would be). No email, minimal messaging, etc

I still get the “not enough memory” error to complete the upgrade. 🤷‍♀️

Upgrade to the Series 6? What would you do? Thanks much... 🙂

After unpairing and repairing to update, I got the Sotrage Full message again on OS 7 and had to fully reset. I’m curious to see if anyone who may get an SE or 6 will continue to have an issue after it persisting with their 3. I may be that person if it keeps up, ha! So so frustrated.  I really want to know what percentage of 3s this is affecting.

I received my SE today, and after initial pairing I had 25gb of available storage, with in 30 minutes that gradually decreased to 19. My usage was still incorrect, saying that I had used 6.6gb, which is impossible. I have updated to WatchOS 7.0.1 and am currently updating to IOS 14.0.1. I will repair after that and we shall see.... Doesn't look good though. If anyone has a different outcome, please post.

Just saw this article but no specific mention of the storage issue.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/09/30/apple-watch-iphone-battery-drain-gps/

I was waiting for them to say everything needs to be fully wiped for our fix. Interesting they’re saying both can be restored from backup, though. Not sure I have it in me to reset my phone, but if this is their solution for all of these issues I can’t image they’ll have an easier one for our storage fix.

Just wanted to comment on this too because I have been experiencing the exact same thing and have contacted Apple about 5 times now and nothing has worked. Every time I talk to them they are so confident that they've fixed it and then an hour later my apple watch is full again. It is the most frustrating thing ever. My apple store is currently closed too because of covid so I have an appointment with best buy on Thursday to see if they can fix it but idk how confident I am feeling about this. I will keep you all updated if anything works but it just sucks I can't even use my apple watch anymore :/

I totally understand where you’re coming from, maya. After two weeks twice reset/re-pairing of my Apple Watch, I’ve pretty much given on it entirely. Sadly I t’s sitting on its charger waiting to be traded in on my upgrade to the Series 6 watch. I’m expecting that in the next couple of weeks or so. 😢

Hoping that will solve the problem all together. 👍

Went to Best Buy and it was such a waste of time. They said I could send it off to Apple to get fixed for $160 but it wasn’t a guaranteed fix and they wouldn’t refund me if the fix didn’t work. Basically just have to wait for an update like someone else said or get a new watch. So dumb. Thanks Apple.

That is pretty sad. 😕

About the only real good thing about upgrading to a Series 6 is that you can trade in your Series 3 & a $95 credit towards the new one. It trades better Best Buy, which is offering something like $75. 😳

I’ve lost way more time and productivity than all my Apple devices are worth! I WILL NOT buy any more Apple Products until they can acknowledge faulty product/software designs and be forthcoming with consumers.

WOW you have definitely done the most! Definitely keep us updated but this whole thing is crazy. How can they not take accountability when us users have done nothing to affect it? I too pay for extra iCloud storage and extra storage on my IPhone so it makes no sense that that would affect our watches. But thank you for this info!! I really enjoy seeing everyone else’s comments and know that I’m not alone 😅

Wow is right! Thanks so much for sharing. It’s crazy they have acknowledged the issue as a bug and yet are still making people go through the motions with no actual solution. I still can’t believe full resets and new watches aren’t a fix. They need their cloud engineers to kick it into high gear for a fix before we all give up and trade in our watches.

Didn't work. I've already unpaired at least 10 times since yesterday but it get full in less than a hour. I've already tried a lot of alternatives since getting backup files and setting up as a new. Deleted all my podcasts, deleted podcast app and a lot of other things. Nothing works.

Same thing every time

I have spent today trying this, however still hasn’t worked, it’s getting to the point where I’m debating selling on as Apple just don’t seem to be supporting a fat lot...... coming from an Apple fan for many of years, pains me to say it but this is really swaying me to the “dark side” of Android