Wear OS is unsurprisingly going all-in on the Watch Face Format introduced two years ago, with support for all other “legacy” types going away in early 2026. The Watch Face Format is a declarative XML ...

Google introduced its revamped Androidify app earlier this month, but it seems the company is going to follow that up with the ability to use characters created in the app as a Wear OS watch face.

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Wear OS users won’t be able to install legacy watch faces from the Play Store starting January 14, 2025. Legacy watch faces will still work if they are already installed on the device. Developers ...

The new Google Play Store update for Wear OS warns users about watch faces that may drain battery life. These warnings will be present within the watch face listings in the Play Store. These watch ...

Popular custom watch face distributor Facer is embracing Google’s latest Watch Face Format with hundreds of thousands of new compatible watch faces. With this revamp, Facer will support smartwatches ...

Developers are already barred from publishing new AndroidX or Wearable Support Library on the Play Store, and starting January 14th, 2026, users will no longer be able to install new legacy watch ...

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What’s happened? Google is adding a flag in the Play Store to alert Wear OS smartwatch users of watch faces which have high battery drain. This is important because: Many of today’s best smartwatches ...

I got the Pixel Watch 2 right when it launched alongside the Pixel 8 Pro, and it has been my go-to watch since then. While not perfect, it delivers a clean Wear OS experience, with Fitbit integration ...

Wear OS 6 is the latest software powering your favorite Android smartwatches. Powering the Galaxy Watch 8 series and the upcoming Pixel Watch 4, Wear OS 6 is the platform's biggest in years. We tried ...

A recent bug on the Wear OS 6-powered smartwatches is causing the Always-On-Display (AOD) to homescreen transition to fail. The layers of AOD and the main screen overlap each other often. The newly ...