Watch face platform Facer has announced the winners of its first-ever ‘Facer Awards’, celebrating the most influential ...

Google introduced its revamped Androidify app earlier this month, but it seems the company is going to follow that up with the ability to use characters created in the app as a Wear OS watch face.

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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 ...

The new Google Play Store update for Wear OS warns users about watch faces that may drain battery life. These warnings will be present within the watch face listings in the Play Store. These watch ...

The Google Play Store will now show warnings on Wear OS watch face listings that may drain battery life. Watch faces with heavy animations, dynamic data, or constant phone interaction are the likely ...

Wear OS users won’t be able to install legacy watch faces from the Play Store starting January 14, 2025. Legacy watch faces will still work if they are already installed on the device. Developers ...

Google’s revived Androidify app now reportedly supports Wear OS, allowing users to create custom Android Bot watch faces. The latest app update, version 1.2.1, rolling out via the Play Store, has this ...

Developers are already barred from publishing new AndroidX or Wearable Support Library on the Play Store, and starting January 14th, 2026, users will no longer be able to install new legacy watch ...

Wear OS 6 is the latest software powering your favorite Android smartwatches. Powering the Galaxy Watch 8 series and the upcoming Pixel Watch 4, Wear OS 6 is the platform's biggest in years. We tried ...

What’s happened? Google is adding a flag in the Play Store to alert Wear OS smartwatch users of watch faces which have high battery drain. This is important because: Many of today’s best smartwatches ...