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Your current Samsung watch won’t get Wear OS, but will still see updates
June 06, 2025
One of the highlights of theGoogle I/O 2021keynote today was Google’s announcement that it has teamed up with Samsung to revamp the Android wearables industry. Google, Samsung, and Fitbit plan to combine all their powers to make a hybrid operating system that will bea mix of Wear OS, Fitbit OS, and Samsung’s Tizen.
This new operating system — which will still go by Wear OS — will appear on Samsung wearables in the future. It will also appear on Fitbit wearables and, theoretically, a Google wearable if the company ever gets around to it. Ah, but what does this mean for Galaxy Watch updates on your current Samsung wearables?
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In itspress release surrounding the news, Samsung confirms that its current slate of Tizen-powered wearables will continue to see updates. The products will stick to the regular schedule, whatever it may be for that particular model (three years after its release date).
However, Samsung also confirmed that no existing products from the company will see an upgrade to Wear OS. The obvious culprit for that is the hardware within Samsung watches, which does not jibe with the Wear OS platform.
We’ve heard rumors for months now that the upcomingSamsung Galaxy Watch 4could be powered by Wear OS. With today’s news, that seems more like an inevitability now. We expect that watch to land in August or at some point this summer.
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