Wear OS 7, announced at Google I/O 2026, promises up to 10% better battery life than its predecessor and brings Gemini Intelligence to select smartwatches. With Live Updates and redesigned Widgets ...

Ahead of the Pixel Watch 4 launching next week, the majority of Google’s Wear OS apps now have Material 3 Expressive redesigns, with Home and Keep being the most recent updates. Like the phone and ...

The Google Clock app for Wear OS has just made a change that breaks support for every other smartwatch except Google’s own Pixel Watch, leaving out Samsung, OnePlus, and others. On Wear OS, the Google ...

Pixel’s Now Playing still isn’t built into Wear OS, but a new app now brings detected songs straight to your smartwatch.

Wear OS 5 has enhanced smartwatch battery life by 20% during long activities. Wear OS 5 introduces health tracking features for athletes, including stride length and vertical oscillation. Upgrading to ...

A while back, we asked Motorola to bring Wear OS back. After years of watching the company drift further away from the operating system while Google, Samsung, and others pushed Wear OS forward, it ...

While Pixel phones receive seven years of software update support, Google will only be releasing three years of Wear OS ...

Google announced new features for Android 16 and Wear OS 6 during the Android Show: The focus is on the major visual redesign Material 3 Expressive. As part of the Android Show 2025, Google has ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Thanks to reporting on Android Authority by Mishaal Rahman, we've known that Wear OS 5.1 would be based on Android 15 since ...