WearOS users who happen to have a beloved, long-serving watch face will need to download it before 2026, as Google halts support for certain watch face formats. In a recent Android Developers Blog ...

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.

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 ...

Watch face platform Facer has announced the winners of its first-ever ‘Facer Awards’, celebrating the most influential smartwatch face designs across the Apple Watch and Wear OS ecosystems. The awards ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent bug on the Wear OS 6-powered smartwatches is causing the Always-On-Display (AOD) to homescreen transition to fail. The layers of AOD and the main screen overlap each other often. The newly ...

After Facer, watch face distribution apps Pujie and WatchMaker are extending support for Wear OS 6. The updated versions comply with Google’s mandate to switch to the new Watch Face Format. While ...

Facer, the Wear OS watch face app downloaded by over 10 million users, announced big changes this week. The big news centers around WFF (watch face format) support on Wear OS 6, battery improvements, ...