After first revealing Wear OS 6 last May at its annual I/O conference, Google’s latest operating system update is now available for most of the best Android smartwatches. As ever, the upgrade promises ...

Google announced new features for Wear OS 6 at Google I/O 2025 today, giving the operating system a design makeover with Material 3 Expressive, the design language the company unveiled earlier this ...

Google Maps for Wear OS has always been a handy tool, but countless times using it to navigate a city on foot or by bike has often led to a headache for me. That’s why I’m thrilled that Google Maps ...

At the end of last week, Google announced a noteworthy change to Wear OS 6+ and its built-in weather app. In short, they said that the built-in weather would soon go away, but it’s also a bit ...

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 ...

Spotify's Wear OS upgrade is truly stunning, but its pretty new visuals are just the beginning.

What’s happened? If you own an older Google Pixel Watch, such as the Watch 2 or the Watch 3, and you didn’t splurge your money on the latest one, there’s good news for you. Why is this important?

a google pixel watch - Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google is killing off its Weather app for Pixel smartwatches — and replacing it with a new Pixel Weather app. For the original Weather app, ...

About a month ago, Wear OS users who owned smartwatches from Samsung, OnePlus, and others, noticed that the Google Clock app was no longer available. Google hadn’t said anything about the ...

While Google Messages on Android lets you react to messages, Wear OS smartwatch users don’t have that convenience. They either have to select from the auto-generated responses or type the entire text ...