Watch faces are still the only things OEMs are allowed to customize in Wear OS and haven't changed in version 2.0.īesides the four main screens that you can swipe to from the watch face, the rest of Wear OS remains unchanged. On Wear OS 2.0, you can still quickly change watch faces by long-pressing on the watch face. That always seemed like a waste of premium real estate. Quick Settings and notifications haven't moved, but, previously, Wear used left and right swipes to change watch faces. The new layoutįurther Reading LG Watch Sport review: Google’s bulky watch breaks free from the smartphoneCompared to previous versions of Wear OS/Android Wear, this is a big improvement. Android Wear started at "1.0" and made it all the way to "2.9 " Wear OS then started over at "1.0" and counted back up to "2.0." Continuing the old version numbers would have made things a lot easier: Google and terrible branding-name a more iconic duo. When the name change from "Android Wear" to "Wear OS" happened, the version numbers reset. Don't confuse "Wear OS 2.0" with " Android Wear 2.0," though, because the latter launched in 2017. Google hasn't done much to publicize the actual name of this release, but it identifies the update as "Wear OS 2.0" on the "About" page, so we're calling it that. There's not much in the way of new functionality or features, but everything is laid out better. In the face of relentless competition from the Apple Watch Series 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch, Google's most obvious change in the new Wear OS is a new UI for most of the main screens. Google's major Wear OS revamp is out today, and soon it will arrive on most devices released in the past year and a half (although Ars has already spent a week with a pre-release version of the OS).
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