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(You can’t get a screenshot of the playback screen showing that there is no content, because the bit on the bottom below, explaining how to transfer audiobooks, slides up as soon as you open it.) When I checked on my Apple Watch, there was nothing. After about 10 minutes, I checked, and this was its progress:ġ7 minutes later – note the time on my iPhone in the screenshot – it had made more progress.Īnd when I checked back about 50 minutes later, it said it had finished syncing.Īlas, it hadn’t actually synced anything. I hope not standard Audible files are 32 kbps, which is adequate for spoken word, but if shrinks them to 16 kbps, that’s not great. The Audible Apple Watch app explains what you need to do:įirst, the Audible app says that it is “preparing your content.” It’s not clear what this is doing, but it might be downsampling the file so it takes up less space.

Copies to the Apple Watch seem to only go over Bluetooth, even though the device uses wifi for connectivity. If you want, for example, to copy a couple of gigabytes to the Apple Watch – after all, it comes with either 8 or 16 GB storage – the cellular Apple Watch 3 offered 16 GB, the GPS-only had 8, and the Series 4 comes with 16 GB for all models – you were best off doing it overnight.

You’ll have seen this when you wait for an update to get copied to the Apple Watch, or if you have ever tried to put music on the device. While Apple’s wrist computer has storage that can hold its operating system, apps, music, and more, it’s extremely difficult to get anything onto the device. In practice, this highlights one of the biggest flaws of the Apple Watch.

This allows you to listen to audiobooks on the go, using Bluetooth headphones, even if you don’t have your iPhone handy. Audible has updated their iOS app, and now includes an Apple Watch app, so you can sync audiobooks from your iPhone to the Apple Watch.