The Galaxy Watch 3 Upgrade Includes New Wear OS 4 Watch Faces

The Galaxy Watch 3 has received a fresh update, with the Tizen-powered smartwatch now accepting watch faces from Samsung’s latest Wear OS skin, One UI Watch 5, which debuted on the Galaxy Watch 6.

The Galaxy Watch 3 was announced in 2020 and ended up being Samsung’s final smartwatch running Tizen. A year later, the business transitioned to Wear OS 3 as its foundation, with a pretty hefty One UI shell on top that made the entire device appear and feel a lot like Tizen, but with access to Google and other apps.

While Samsung no longer releases significant Tizen system upgrades, the firm has committed to at least three years of support for its smartwatches, which includes this newest update.

According to SamMobile, this new update with a firmware version ending in DWK2 does not modify the Tizen OS version number, but it does add two new watch faces to the Galaxy Watch 3. The two new faces are “Perpetual” and “Stretched Time,” which debuted earlier this year on the Galaxy Watch 6 series and have now been extended to the Watch 5 and Watch 4 with the One UI Watch 5 update, which is based on Wear OS 4.

Perpetual,” in particular, is the watch face that Samsung had to alter due to a typo of the word “April,” which had been in use for a few months.

These faces will also be available on the Galaxy Watch Active 2 in 2019, however they are not yet available. For Watch 3 owners, the update is now only available in Europe, but it should be available in other locations soon.