Samsung has released the fourth One UI 6 Watch beta update to the Galaxy Watch 4 series. The smartwatches in the lineup have received important bug fixes, performance improvements, battery optimizations, and a new feature called Global AOD. The Galaxy Watch 4 and older Galaxy Watches could soon get the stable Wear OS 5-based One UI 6 Watch update.
Galaxy Watch 4 One UI 6 Watch Beta 4 update with Global AOD feature
The fourth beta version of the One UI 6 Watch update has been released to the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic in South Korea. It comes with a firmware version that ends with ZXH4 and has also been released for the Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy Watch 6. The update could be released in other countries (like the US) where the company is running the One UI 6 Watch Beta Program.
It brings support for the Global Always On Display (AOD) feature to the Galaxy Watch 4 series. The older AOD feature only displayed the watch face, but the Global AOD feature displays whatever you were viewing before the AOD mode kicked in. So you can continue to see the Tiles or other things you viewed earlier.
The new update also includes system speed and performance optimizations, faster app launch speeds, battery consumption improvements, and network connectivity optimizations. Samsung mentions “many other improvements” in its changelog but hasn't detailed what those improvements are related to.
The story continues after our Galaxy Watch 7 hands-on video below.
Since Samsung has already released five One UI 6 Watch beta updates to the Galaxy Watch 6 series and four beta updates to the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Watch 5, it is being speculated that the South Korean firm could soon release the stable One UI 6 Watch update to all its Wear OS Galaxy Watches that are older than the Galaxy Watch 7.
The Galaxy Watch 7 and the Galaxy Watch Ultra are the first smartwatches in the world to run Wear OS 5 out of the box. Even the Pixel Watch 3, which also runs Wear OS 5, made it to the market a month after the Galaxy Watch 7 and the Galaxy Watch Ultra.
