When Google introduced Wear OS 3 Last May, under a new unified platform, a very important question remained unanswered: Will watches with Wear OS 2.0 be upgraded to Wear OS 3? Well, we finally have an answer.
Google You have already decided what to do with the current Wear OS watches on the market, confirming that Wear OS 3 arrives in the previous generation, also informing how and when the expected update will arrive.
Wear OS 3 for the previous generation
Google reports that they will be bringing Wear OS 3 to the previous generation of smartwatches to bring many new experiences to current models, but specifies that in some limited cases user experience could be affected, without giving further details.
Due to the magnitude of the changes introduced in Wear OS 3 during installation clock data will be factory reset, so that after installation all data will have been deleted and it will be time to set the clock again. For this reason the update will be optional
Google hopes its partners can roll out the Wear OS 3 update from the second half of 2022, with which up to a year the existing clocks will not be updated to the new version. Wear OS 3 for new models is slated for release later this year.
Wear OS devices that will be eligible to switch to Wear OS include the TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, TicWatch Pro 3 LTE and TicWatch E3 models as well as the new generation of Fossil Group devices (owned by Google) launched later this year. . Manufacturers are expected to confirm other models in the coming weeks.
For watches that won’t update to Wear OS 3, Google reports that they will keep updating other Wear OS watches with more improvements, such as recent updates to Gboard and Google Play Store.
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