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Wear OS 5 blocks one of the best watch apps and it's high time Google fixes things

Watch Face Format helps the Galaxy Watch 7 and Pixel Watch 3 last longer, but it also makes Facer obsolete and their watch faces distressingly basic.

The resolution seems obvious to me: let people continue to install WFF faces from third-party platforms (like Facer) so that artists and developers have a place to sell them and an incentive to make them. But this isn't just some frivolous issue; it's a chance for Google to prove it cares about long-time Wear developers and indie creators after steamrolling over their ecosystem for a battery boost. I plan to do deep dives on software updates, talk about the watch apps the Android Central staff loves (or thinks should be better), and generally try to improve the site's smartwatch coverage beyond simple news.

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