At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced a new way for developers to build Wear OS watch faces, along with overall updates to the Android Wear platform, including Wear OS 4.

W hen Google introduced the Wear OS 5 update last year, The popular watch face app Facer had to depart due to compatibility ...

Best Wear OS watch face apps Unlike on the Apple Watch, you can access thousands of great, independently-made watch faces through the third-party platforms available on Wear OS. Once downloaded ...

Google already lets you change and remove watch faces on your compatible smartwatch using the Wear OS app. The wide selection of watch faces is one of the highlights of Wear OS 5, Google's ...

Facer is one of the most popular apps for custom and branded watch faces. On this platform, you can choose from thousands of premade options or create a Wear OS watch face. If you download one of ...

Google announced new features for Wear OS 6 at Google I/O 2025, giving the operating system a design makeover with Material 3 ...

The Watch Face Format (WFF) was introduced at I/O 2023 and is now required “in order to be installed on new watches that launch with Wear OS 5 pre-installed ...

Facer introduced an industry first this morning — real-time 3D watch faces for compatible Wear OS smartwatches. We’re talking interactive 3D animations with dynamic lighting effects ...

In short, some of your old watch faces are about to stop working because of new standards set for Wear OS 5. Over a year ago, Google introduced the Watch Face Format as the standard for watch ...

These limited face options have been an issue since both watches landed in late summer / early fall, and it’s all thanks to Wear OS 5. With this new version of the platform, Google made Watch ...