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Galaxy Watch 3 finally gets new One UI Watch 5 faces

Samsung's One UI Watch 5 update debuted with the Galaxy Watch 6 series earlier this year and slowly made its way onto the Galaxy Watch 4 and 5 lineups. Older smartwatches that run Tizen OS will never get this update, but on the bright side, Samsung confirmed a few months ago that the Galaxy Watch […]

By Mihai Matei
11 months ago

Everything about Water Lock on your Samsung Galaxy Watch

The Galaxy Watch is the perfect smartwatch for Samsung phone users, thanks to the synergy between the One UI and One UI Watch interfaces. Most Galaxy phone users have a sense of familiarity when they use a Watch for the first time, but they will also encounter new Watch-specific features they've never seen on their […]

By Mihai Matei
12 months ago

If Sisyphus had a smartwatch, it would have run One UI Watch 5

The One UI Watch 5 update brought enough new features and changes to elevate the user experience and make me like my Samsung smartwatch even more. As a Galaxy Watch 5 owner who has used the previous One UI version, I was happy to see improvements like apps drawer folders, better Health features, skin temperature […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch Week: The best ways to realistically improve battery life

Our Samsung Galaxy Watch Week series is coming to an end, and we saved a couple of battery life tips for last. Samsung Galaxy Watches already have great battery life — they're superior even to Apple Watches — but your mileage with the Galaxy Watch will vary depending on which features you turn ON or […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch Week: Declutter your watch face and Tiles

Samsung Galaxy Watches running One UI Watch 5 offer a variety of watch faces and Tiles. Watch faces, as we detailed this week, are the main component of the smartwatch UI, akin to a smartphone's home screen. And watch face complications are similar to home screen app shortcuts. The watch face tells the time and, […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch Week: Get your smartwatch to track health data continuously

Samsung Galaxy Watches are more than smart timepieces capable of showing notifications and taking phone calls from your wrist. They're clever health and fitness trackers chock-full of sensors. By default, these sensors activate intermittently, but for a more accurate overview of your health and fitness, you can make the Galaxy Watch track continuously. Here's all […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch Week: What’s the smartwatch UI structure like?

Yesterday, for the first entry into the Galaxy Watch Week series, we answered some of the most frequently asked questions about the Samsung smartwatch experience. The next step is to explore the Galaxy Watch software and One UI Watch 5. What's the UI structure like? Is using a smartwatch anything like using a smartphone? Is […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Samsung Galaxy Watch Week: Answering frequently asked questions

We created our SamMobile Week series to give new and aspiring Galaxy device users general overviews of Samsung apps and services – to offer potential Galaxy device buyers a window into an experience they have not yet had. And, maybe, even to broaden the existing Samsung customer's knowledge a little bit. This week, we're expanding […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Thanks to One UI Watch 5, my Galaxy Watch performs better than it did at launch

Over a month ago, Samsung started rolling out its One UI Watch 5 update on older Wear OS-powered smartwatches, including the Watch 4 and Watch 5 series. And now that we've been using these smartwatches for a while, it's safe to talk about how the new update affected battery life. To put it bluntly, battery […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

One UI Watch 5 new Theater Mode works like a charm, here’s how to set it up

With the recent release of the One UI Watch 5 update for Wear OS Galaxy smartwatches, Samsung revamped Theater Mode. The latter was a smartwatch-specific feature users could activate from the quick toggle area on One UI Watch. But One UI Watch 5 came along, and Samsung made some (positive) changes to the way it […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

One UI Watch 5 update gives you more control over phone calls

Samsung's new One UI Watch 5 update for Wear OS Galaxy smartwatches consists of many changes, some of which concern the general UI and how users interact with their smartwatches. One example is a redesigned call control screen, which brings more options to the user's wrist. Before we take a closer look at the new […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Factory resets no longer bypass screen locks in One UI Watch 5

Earlier this year, long before Samsung announced its One UI Watch 5 update, we showed you how and why you may want to set a PIN or pattern-based screen lock on your Galaxy Watch. With the One UI Watch 5 update, Samsung made some improvements to the system's security, and there's one new thing Galaxy […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

Universal Gestures in One UI Watch 5 is a thoughtful accessibility tool

The One UI Watch 5 update has massively expanded the concept of using your smartwatch through gestures. Samsung added a new feature called Universal Gestures, and now that the One UI Watch 5 update is out of beta and rolling out on live channels, it's time for us to take a closer look at how […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

One UI Watch 5 overview: New Battery and Device Care tools

The One UI Watch 5 update for Galaxy smartwatches has introduced a Device Care feature that users can access from their wrists. The update also revamped this feature on the Galaxy Wearable mobile app. Here's an overview of this latest addition, what new things it brings, and what it's missing. Before One UI Watch 5, […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

One UI Watch 5 update is rolling out in India for the Galaxy Watch 5

We have great news for Galaxy Watch 5 users in India! The highly anticipated One UI Watch 5 update is rolling out. As of this writing, it seems to be available for the standard model with Wi-Fi connectivity; however, it will likely become available for the Watch 5 Pro and LTE variants momentarily. One UI […]

By Mihai Matei
1 year ago

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