With the latest Google Play Store update, Wear OS will now see warnings about watch faces that tend to drain battery life.

A big culprit behind the drain? Watch faces packed with flashy animations, constant data refreshes, or frequent phone syncing ...

The new update on Play Store for Wear OS warns users of watch face(s) that drain battery quickly. This lets users make an ...

Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that could be potential battery eaters. These include ...

Thankfully, you can easily set up a Wear OS smartwatch to take screenshots. This feature isn't enabled by default, so you'll ...

Gemini is finally available on Wear OS smartwatches. Was it worth the wait? I tested the updated assistant to find out.

After revealing that Wear OS grew its user base by 40% in 2023, Google has just announced Wear OS 5, along with a slew of new watch face updates and health-tracking features. Here’s what’s new.

Perhaps save for Garmin watches, which have a pretty large lineup. For the most part, Wear OS is the most well-known OS for smartwatches that are designed to be compatible with Android.

Wear OS 5.1 is currently available for app developers to test as an emulator in Android Studio. It was released last Tuesday, November 19 (h/t Mishaal Rahman) with build ID: AP4A.241205.004.F1.

Matching Wear OS 5, we expect some Android TV-based devices (including the upcoming Chromecast with Google TV 4K successor) will soon see an upgrade to Android 14.

Some features, like Google Assistant, are not yet available on certain Wear OS 3 smartwatches, and Wear OS 4 still isn’t widely available. Even so, the Android wearable ecosystem is barreling ahead.