Watch Out of Storage Despite Nothing being Installed. Auto Restart Process Needed!

My question is: Can we set up the Apple Watch to automatically restart periodically?


Today I received a message that my Apple Watch Series 2 was out of storage and that I needed to remove photos and music. Interestingly enough, I had neither installed.


After checking my usage, sure enough I was using 4.3GB of storage and had 0 bytes available, but I didn’t even have any apps installed.


Obviously the first step was to restart my watch. It took forever, but when it came back I was only using 2GB and had 2.7GB available.


So, obviously the Apple Watch is not very good at dealing with temporary files and needs to be rebooted. In fact, the only reboot process I can see is the tragically cumbersome process of manually shutting it off, waiting, then manually turning it back on again.


If the Apple Watch cannot manage temporary files any better than this, then we really need restart it regularly. If we need to restart it regularly, then we need a better process.


Thanks in advance.



Apple Watch Series 2, watchOS 6

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 12:13 PM

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Posted on Feb 2, 2022 1:03 PM

There is no option to restart a watch on schedule. You are dealing with a watch, which is now pretty old, and out of the box came with only 8GB of internal memory. Today, Apple Watch Series 7 is the most current Apple Watch and out of the box it comes with 32GB of internal memory.

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