Wear OS by Google Smartwatch

Ian Mayo

1 year ago

Repeatedly "forgets" watch. I have now had 2 different model Android watches (3 total) and 2 different phones. WearOS will randomly and without notification lose connection to watches. This is EXTREMELY annoying as you can't not simply re-pair, to fix it requires you to factory reset the watch and go to the whole setup process again. This is just embarrassing. If you can't, simply make it stay connected, The one thing it's supposed to do, then at least let us reconnect it when it forgets.

Martin (Chiyonosake)

1 year ago

Got a new phone. S22 Ultra, tried to pair my Gen 6 watch to it and it will not find it in this app. Bluetooth can see it, but the app can not. Followed all instructions for the location, reset the watch and all. Now I have to use an old phone to get it synced and working, but can't sync it and use on my brand new S22. Going to go back to Samsung watches. What a waste.

A Google user

4 years ago

Last update to either this or my OS broke the ability to track workouts with GPS. Now when I try ending a run, the watch freezes and won't turn on again until on the charging cradle, regardless of battery percentage. Worse yet, there's no way to register a halt in the workout and my stats are lost. Finally ditching Wear OS for a proper running watch (just arrived) to track my vital stats as I train for my next half marathon.

Christopher Marx

3 years ago

Update: After some tinkering I got the app to sync. Still a frustrating experience, and Google's reply to point to the watch company is passing the blame. Also, factory resetting every time is a bad experience. I lost my apps and watch faces, again. The OS app could do way better! This is getting worse every time I try to get back into wearables. Now my watch wont even connect via the app. Ive even been able to manually connect via bluetooth... Which the phone recognizes but the app does not.

A Google user

4 years ago

I dig it overall, but I'd love to see a flip display & buttons settings. I have a Fossil smartwatch. I wear it on my left wrist, and the buttons are on the right. Which means when I lean on a desk it hits the crown button, and will cause it to reboot. I tried wearing it on my right hand, but I am not used to that. The watchbands however are interchangeable, so I could switch them to make the watch upside down on my left arm, and the buttons will point toward my elbow.

A Google user

5 years ago

You think by now Google would know what they were doing. You would be wrong. One they will not even see this review and two they won't fix anything. I have read others have had this problem for quite a few months. Wear OS will not connect properly to the internet if I am connected through my wifi. Magically everything can but not this app. If I want to use the app store on my watch I have to make sure I am not connected through wifi on my phone or I have to connect straight to wifi on my watch. It is utterly dumb. Couldn't even transfer my account info to my watch during setup unless I did those two options. Everything Google just seems to get worse and worse lately. The dumbest part is if I turn off bluetooth and then turn it back on it then can do one search, find the item and then download but if I try again it can't find anything, unless I rinse and repeat.

A Google user

5 years ago

I would love to have the widget back. While I would prefer a step counter, at least allow the option for a heart points and move minutes widget. So far, I'm just not excited about the updates that have been pushed out over the last couple of months. The app design looks nice and clean and I think I see where the developers are going with it, but I feel they completely abandoned the uses of the original user base (but I'm sure they know how their user engaged with the app) in this rework.

A Google user

5 years ago

It's about ducking time. Only took a year to basically reverse every terrible addition to the previous updates. I can finally touch the watch without it wanting to change the face. Hopefully the previous team was moved to a room to play with watches for the remainder of their contract, they sucked. Let's see if it is any faster in the coming week. I doubt the capabilities of the wear team. Now go make a watch last a couple days. How about eink? I don't care about the stupid watch faces. Let others do that. Make it work and let the community build on it. It was barely functional for the past year. Quicker voice prompts are welcome. It worked at one point.

A Google user

4 years ago

I just got the Ticwatch e and the app is decent. For the most part I like the update but before the update my texts and WhatsApp messages were easier to read. I could scroll through the last several texts and see profile pictures too, and replying was simple. I do not like the new one. I can only see the last text. No profile pictures and the "quick responses" are annoying and way to easy to accidentally hit.. please is there anyway I can go back to the way they were before the update??

Michelle Stinebaugh

1 year ago

Worked great on my old watch and phone but now I have both a replacement phone and watch and while they are paired, I can't seem to get the same things to work amd I don't have the option to add tiles like I used to. This is frustrating because I like the old setup and makes me want to just swap parts out instead of wearing a brand new watch. Both are as updated as can be.

A Google user

5 years ago

I wish that I never used 1.0. I could then just naively think that "Android Wear just sucks". Instead, I have the knowledge that Android Wear was good and became terrible. All of the useful gestures; all of the features, like movie mode, like not having to drill into each notification card for interactions; all of the convenience and consistency, is gone. I don't have the option to install 3.0, so I'm stuck with this poorly designed crippled sad excuse for a smartwatch operating system.

Jadelyn Hall

2 years ago

It worked at first but after a couple "upgrades" the app no longer opens. Have to set my Google watch manually and now only use it for time, when it's accurate. If I knew I couldn't utilize the features after a couple months of use, I wouldn't have gotten it. It's ridiculous the watch can't sync to my phone without the app. Now when the watch dies I have to set it all over again. It seems nominal but after weeks of doing this, I no longer care to wear the Google watch. And I love watches 😤

A Google user

5 years ago

When I installed on my on my watch, it ate up all my storage. Looking into the app on my phone it showed it loaded 3 times. I had to perform a factory reset, then I had all my storage back! Until 5 minutes later it said Wear OS needs to update, and then it duplicated itself. Thankfully it left half my storage untouched, but it did gobble up additional space. Can this be fixed? Performance wise it's useful, and I like it though.

A Google user

5 years ago

Newest update still takes several factory resets to get it to connect. It works well once you get it to connect. Factory reset my phone and now I can't connect to my watch. Attempting a "disconnect and reset" again on the watch to connect again. Annoyingly, this seems to be the only way to reconnect the watch. Getting notifications and being able to reply is nice, but sometimes it doesn't actually send the reply. Also, if I have it set up to make/receive calls on the watch, my phone won't connect to my car.

A Google user

5 years ago

Google continues to disappoint by not being fully invested in their products, and wear os seems to be no exception. After resetting my watch, it no longer has the built in faces that are supposed to be included. Additionally, the watch appears to think it's on the latest version when it definitely is not. Bluetooth is constantly a struggle. Using voice to text is nearly impossible because my watch can never seem to contact Google. I love the idea of a smart watch, but Google's execution is bad.

Landon Carter

2 years ago

Complete rewrite... I just want to know if anybody that works on this actually tries to use it? I use Outlook for work and random calendars are available in the agenda area in the app but selecting them doesn't necessarily mean that they'll show up on the agenda on the watch. Google Assistant works about half the time. Answering calls on the watch is hit or miss. The most infuriating thing is you can choose to answer and it'll tell you to go to your phone. This feels like a multi-year beta

M

1 month ago

my phone's status bar glitches every time I turn on the location (weird & sus but anyways) I can't even fully set up the watch properly. When it ends up being able to connect, the next time around I check it, it has issues being able to connect & have to turn back to reset everything. guess i have to say goodbye to my watch as well, cause it seemingly depends only on a buggy OS system