Samsung One UI Watch features
Apart from the design of One UI Watch, Samsung has shared details regarding three aspects of the new skin, which are the ecosystem of apps, synchronization between phone and smartwatch, and watch faces. Let us start with the design though. As the name suggests, One UI Watch will look very similar to One UI customization on Samsung smartphones. It means that you will see similar design elements including fonts and colors. While Samsung didn’t reveal the design in detail, it did show a few videos that you can check out on this page.
Movin on to the synchronization between a smartphone and a smartwatch, Samsung Galaxy smartwatches with One UI Watch customization will sync up with your Samsung smartphone in many different ways. For example, if you install an app on your Samsung smartphone, the Wear OS version of the app will automatically get installed on your One UI Watch wearable. The Samsung Galaxy smartwatches with One UI Watch will also sync time zone with the paired Samsung smartphone. Moreover, the contacts/numbers you block on your phone will also be blocked on your smartwatch.
Coming to watch faces, Samsung has announced a new software kit for designers to create watch faces. From what we could gather, this software kit is easy to use and it will allow developers to be creative and create new watch faces in no time. That brings us to the ecosystem of apps on One UI Watch-equipped smartwatches. Samsung has confirmed that Galaxy smartwatches running on One UI Watch will have access to Google Play Store. It means that you can use all the Wear OS apps that are available on Google’s app distribution platform, on Samsung Galaxy smartwatches running One UI Watch.