Fans of Wear OS smartwatches have often complained about Google’s negligence of its wearable operating system – but no more! At Google IO 2021, its annual tech conference, the company decided to unveil the biggest change to Wear OS we’ve seen in years.
Well, it’s a series of changes actually – apparently, this new version of Wear OS has been designed alongside Samsung, which almost guarantees the upcoming Watch 4 and Watch Active 4 will use the platform. The update will be rolling out through 2021.
Apparently this new Wear OS update has taken lots of Tizen’s DNA – that’s the operating system previous Samsung wearables have run on – and rolled it into Wear OS.
What’s new?
Google has mentioned the key feature of the new Wear OS update is battery life – typically, Wear OS watches last about a day, which is poor compared to most watches, but apparently, they’ll last a lot longer now. We’ll have to wait until we’ve tested the watches to know what that really means, though.
Performance has got an update too, apparently. Google stated apps will open 30% faster,
Google IO 2021 is currently ongoing, and the Wear OS updates are being shown off right now. We’re updating this article with all the changes as they’re announced.