Google confirms Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will run Wear OS 3 (One UI Watch)

In a recent blog post, Google officially confirmed the name of the new Wear OS version, the Wear OS 3, which is going to power upcoming Samsung Galaxy smartwatches. Unlike the previous naming strategy, the name of the new version of Wear OS doesn’t include Google at first.

The reason behind removing Google from the name of Wear OS could be the merger of Samsung’s Tizen OS and Fitbit’s fitness expertise. However, the Korean tech giant revealed that the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 models will run One UI Watch on top of Google’s new version of Wear OS.

Samsung Galaxy Watch x Wear OS 3?

It’s expected that the Wear OS 3 will deliver improved battery life, better third-party apps support, faster performance, better health tracking, new UI design, and so on. Meanwhile, recently, it’s reported that apps will open 30% faster compared to previous versions of Wear OS.

Your existing Galaxy Watch won’t get Wear OS update

Current Galaxy Watch models are running its self-developed Tizen OS, while the upcoming Galaxy Watch 4 (Classic) is coming with One UI Watch on top of Wear OS 3. Samsung indirectly confirmed that it will not upgrade older smartwatches to the new OS, but continue to deliver software updates based on Tizen OS.

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On the other hand, Google confirmed that a system update to Wear OS 3 will bring the benefit of many of the new experiences for the previous generation of Wear OS smartwatches, which means, your Wear OS running smartwatch will be getting a major change through s/w update from mid to second half of 2022.

Apart from this, the search engine giant also cleared that it is committed to bringing new app experiences for all other Wear OS smartwatches like the recent updates to Gboard and Google Play. At the same time, the company will maintain security updates for a minimum of two years from device launch.