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Wear OS 5 will bring major upgrades to battery life, fitness, and watch faces

Here are all the key Wear OS 5 upgrades, which you can check out in the new Developer Preview after Google I/O 2024.

Devs will "simulate events" like loss of heart rate data or an auto-pause mechanic, so Wear OS fitness apps become less likely to trigger unexpected bugs. With Wear OS 5, Health Connect and fitness apps will sync in the background and share all of your historical data, so long as you provide permission first. Activity data on the OnePlus Watch 2 (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)I originally hoped that Google would announce a universal Wear OS fitness app like Fitbit at I/O 2024.

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