Samsung Galaxy Watches have evolved a lot in the recent past; something that has not changed is the improvements in the battery life. Meanwhile, it looks like Google has a solution for this as well.
Since the most significant factor of faster battery drainage is a few selective watch faces that are more on a heavier side in terms of animations or useful data, Google has just started rolling out a new update that will certainly let the Samsung Galaxy Watch audience choose watch faces that are lighter.
More specifically, Google released the latest update for Play Store (v47.7), which significantly mentions the integration of a warning message for any watch face that is draining the smartwatch’s battery. In simple words, the Wear OS-based smartwatches, including Galaxy watches, will now warn users which of their currently applied watch faces is draining their wearable’s battery.
Since such kinds of watch faces have heavier animations, bold graphics, and display more daily health insights, this creates a negative impact on the watch’s battery life. Perhaps some watch faces are light in weight with only displaying efficient information, while some watch faces that have complicated animations, continuous data display, and constant interaction with the phone can severely decrease the battery life of the smartwatch.
At the same time, now, users will know which watch face is draining their smartwatch’s battery heavily, and they could choose a less complex watch face that is more on the sophisticated side.
Nevertheless, Samsung’s latest Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch, which debuted with the Galaxy Watch 8 series, out of the box, is meant to bring some interesting watch faces while also extending battery life.
Currently, Samsung is delivering the One UI 8 Watch beta program for the Galaxy Watch 7 models, with three beta builds already distributed. And the Galaxy Watch Ultra models became the first wearables to receive a stable One UI 8 Watch version, while the company has already announced that the stable watch update will arrive by the end of this year.
