Samsung begins One UI 6 rollout to older Galaxy smartwatches

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Samsung has started rolling out its One UI 6 Watch update to its older Wear OS smartwatches. The update comes to the Galaxy Watch6 before making its way to the Galaxy Watch FE, Galaxy Watch5, and Galaxy Watch4 in the coming weeks.

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Samsung shows off One UI Watch for Wear OS

As it does with its smartphones, Samsung will be putting a skin on top of the new Wear OS platform that it is co-developing with Google. This new One UI Watch for Wear OS aims to "make the Galaxy Watch and smartphone experience more deeply connected" and to create "an entirely new Galaxy Watch experience."

Some of the things we can expect from the One UI Watch experience include auto-install of compatible apps from your phone to the watch, different clocks for various cities will be ported to your wrist, and numbers you block on your Galaxy Watch will be blocked on your phone. 

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Runkeeper blames 'buggy experience' for killing its Wear OS app

Runkeeper is the latest company to retire its Wear OS app. The reason? They claim the app was buggy for most of its users and so they're just opting to take it out of the app starting with version 9.13, which will come out in the next few weeks. The company said in an email to its users that they "want to provide the best tracking experience possible to everyone who uses the Runkeeper app, and we're just not able to offer it on Wear OS by Google at this time." In a follow-up message, the company said it preferred to focus its "limited resources" on other tasks. Runkeeper developers also mentioned that only a small number of its members used the app, so they opted to just get rid of it.

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Google updates Wear OS to speed up Google Pay, improve appointment design, fix bugs

Google’s latest update for Wear OS offers some useful features for its users. One of the major updates include improving speeds for Google Pay, right down to opening up the app. Another new feature is a new “glanceable design” for appointments and events, which as 9to5Google points out is already something Wear OS does. The update we presume is an improvement on this feature’s user interface, making these reminders easier to read. The last major thing coming with this update is a time zone sync bug fix. Not much has been reported about this but it must be a major enough issue for Google to release a fix for it. This update is now out on Google Play for all users.