I am unable to update my Apple Watch because there is not sufficient space.
The only thing taking up space is Apple Music, at 3.2GB. Yet I have zero songs on my Apple Watch.
How do I free up this space?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), iTunes freezing Macbook
Something seems to be confused in the software, I suggest you try a forced reset as the first step. Press and hold both buttons until the Apple logo appears and the watch begins to reboot.
If that doesn't fix the problem the next thing to try is unpair the watch, then re-pair and restore from backup (the backup is made automatically during unpairing). Third step would be to unpair and re-pair as a new watch, then reload any apps manually. Remember that re-pairing will force an update to Watch OS 4.3.1 so you should also make sure you upgraded your iPhone to iOS 11.4 before you do the watch.
Something seems to be confused in the software, I suggest you try a forced reset as the first step. Press and hold both buttons until the Apple logo appears and the watch begins to reboot.
If that doesn't fix the problem the next thing to try is unpair the watch, then re-pair and restore from backup (the backup is made automatically during unpairing). Third step would be to unpair and re-pair as a new watch, then reload any apps manually. Remember that re-pairing will force an update to Watch OS 4.3.1 so you should also make sure you upgraded your iPhone to iOS 11.4 before you do the watch.
Hi Six7Six7,
I seem to have a similar problem, see my post here.
I think I have figured out the reason but this still doesn't explain why the storage space is used. Here an excerpt from my post:
"as soon as I enable iCloud Music Library on my paired iPhone (iPhone X, iOS 11.4), the internal storage of my paired Apple Watch starts decreasing. When I check the ‘Usage’ via the Watch app (General -> Usage), I can see that the Music app on the Watch is responsible and uses huge amounts of room, up to 2.5 GB (out of its 5.5 GB) within a few days after turning on iCloud Music Library on the iPhone (it is increasing slowly but surely over time). When I check the Music app itself on the Watch, there is still no music synced.
When I turn off iCloud Music Library on the iPhone (Settings -> Music), storage space on the Watch is quickly increasing again and within a few hours, the Music app only takes roughly 200 MB of storage on the Watch (as can be checked through the Usage setting on the Watch).
This is reproducible, i.e. when I turn on iCloud Music Library again on the iPhone, storage space on the Watch starts decreasing and when I turn it off, storage space is regained."
Can you try and see whether this is the same issue for you?
Also, let's see whether anyone else has any ideas!!
Since they marked Branta_uk's answer as having solved their issue I would guess the forced restart solved their issue.
I have 0 songs on my Apple Watch. Why is Apple Music taking up 3.2gb of space?
