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I got an early look at Wear OS 6 on the Pixel Watch 3 at Google I/O

We won't get Wear OS 6 for months, but if you're at I/O 2025, go to the Android Village and try it out on the Pixel Watch 3.

I didn't fully investigate until I spoke to Dev Relations Engineer John Zoeller at the Q&A booth; he answered my Wear OS 6 questions by bringing me back to the Village. But when you choose the right face — or one of the default theme options like Moonstone or Ivy — you can see those colors permeate the entire UI, just like you get on Android phones, and it's pretty neat to see. Google's engineers acknowledged the limitations of rounded displays and turned it into a feature with shrinking, smooth-scrolling content, while adding theming to align its watches more closely with the Pixel phone experience.

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