Samsung commits to three years of updates for current Galaxy Watch smartwatches, but no Wear or Wear OS upgrades
The Galaxy Watch 3 and Galaxy Watch Active 2 will be ineligible for Wear OS. (Image source: Samsung)
Samsung and Google may have agreed to merge Tizen OS and Wear OS, but current Galaxy Watch smartwatches will be left on the older Tizen OS platform. Samsung will update the Galaxy Watch Active, Watch Active 2 and Watch 3 for at least three years from their launch date, mind you.
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Samsung may have announced that it would be adopting Wear OS, now Wear, but there is a catch. Buried at the bottom of Samsung s press release is a paragraph titled Continued Commitment to Existing Galaxy Smartwatch Users , which implies that current Galaxy Watch smartwatches will remain on Tizen OS indefinitely.