Google Play Now Allows Installing Wear OS Apps Directly From Your Smartphone

The latest Google Play Update has brought in some new changes and improvements up its sleeves for the upcoming Wear OS 3.0. The new update has paved new ways for users searching necessary customizable apps for their smartwatches.

Google held an I/O event for this year in May and has announced Android 12 and Wear OS that features Material You design. This design aspect has eventually has become an overall user interface aspect for both smartphones and smartwatches on Android.

What’s New in Latest Google Play Update?

First and Foremost, the Google Play update has started to narrow the search results to just Watch apps or Watch faces with new filters. This way, users of Wear OS can install watch apps directly from Google’s Play store. This wasn’t the case with previous versions as the Wear OS had its own store.

Apart from this, the Play store app that is provided on the Wear OS of a smartwatch is being updated. This update on the Wear OS for the smartwatch; will enable the Material You design overhaul similar to the Android 12 on Android phones. The interface on the Wear OS for Play Store features cards that show us different apps.

The purchases or installations that you make on your smartwatch will reflect on the Play store of your smartphone. This makes it a seamless way of transactions that we can make on the Wear OS Play Store as well as on smartphones. Also, the purchases on Wear OS should be initiated on your smartphone with the provided URL.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy 4 Watch editions; and the Google Pixel smartwatch are on the list to run the Wear OS 3.0. Also, Google is keen to roll out the updates soon for the Android smartphones as well as on Wear OS with the new changes and improvements. We can get a more in-depth overlook of the new features; working out on these devices after the update rolls out.