Apple Watch says it has 4.2gb

Hello Malissandratos

I have same issue to have 4.1GB total on my watch 3. I unpaired and paired back. It is still 4.1 GB. Did you find solution to recover back to 8GB?

Thanks

John

Do you think apple store will help, if I bring the watch to the store for repairing?

I just bought another one the same 4.2gb I think Apple they making with this storage (4.2) and they lying to people about (8gb)

I will ask this question in apple store and share what they will say.

I spoke with Apple a week ago and the guy I spoke to said that maybe with the next IOS update for the watch they will try and make the update smaller,hardly a solution!

first They going to lie to you that it’s normal , second another excuse they says is the app installed already take some GB , it’s not true anyway they going to send to Apple factory god luck

I hope they do something!please let us know how you go!!!

Can/will you share the outcome? Did Apple support help? I have this exact issue and I’m getting now where. Apple support says I should have 8gb of capacity but I absolutely don’t.

I think,it would be fix in next update.

Still not fixed in iOS 14.6 and WatchOS 7.5. but I was able to update from 7.4 to 7.5 since it was only 2.1 GB.

Very interested to see if anyone figures this one out. I unpaired, erased, then repaired and set up as new, and still only have 4.2 GB capacity. Songs: 0, Photos: 17 even though there is actually only 1 photo synced, Applications: 3, Capacity: 4.2 GB, Available: 3.5 GB. (No Podcasts or anything else synced either, but those aren't listed in my About section of General Settings.) Hoping watchOS 7 doesn't take up that much storage, and someone figures out how fix it. Thanks for asking this question!

Same case here. I see two issues:

• Misreporting the watch capacity
• Update experience

1)

Strictly talking about TOTAL capacity, If the watch has 8GB capacity it should show that, but it shows 4.2GB.

If I got to Settings-> Genera -> Usage and add up all space used by a handful of apps shown the it adds up to less than 40MB and yet it reports it only has 2.3GB available. In my watch where I have not installed third party apps and sync only a handful of things, I have not enough capacity for a major OS update, which leads me to the second point.

2)

To update to watchOS 7 I had no option but reset the watch to factory settings which allowed it have just enough capacity to allow the update. I went through a similar situation when updating to watchOS 6. It was not a nice experience specially re-adding all my cards to the Wallet app (one my fav features).

I feel it would improve the experience if the iPhone would backup up whatever it needs to backup to be able to make room for the update and the restore it back, all automatically as part of the update process.

Yeah, I think the expectation (again, based on how this same information is shown in iPhone) is that Capacity should be the total, advertised capacity, regardless of how much is used by either the user or the system. Then Available should show the amount available for the user ... just like the iPhone does.

Having the exact same issue with the 4.2gb total storage on a series 3. Spent about 4 hours with apple tech support and finally convinced them to have me send it into them for a fix. Will update if they are able to successfully fix/replace the unit.

try with factory default, did the same and helped