Setting a new Wear OS watch face might soon be possible with a single click | Infinium-tech

Let’s be fair here. Not that getting and setting up the new Wear OS watch faces is particularly challenging at the moment. You can do this easily through a companion app on your phone or the Play Store on your Wear OS watch. The latter also has an optional toggle to automatically apply the latest watch face you download.

Still, thanks to some APK snooping, courtesy of the folks at Android Authority, we now know that Google still wants to make the whole watch face application process easier. Apparently, the latest version of the Google Play Store for phones (version 43.9.17-31) has an optional button that appears after you click the “Install” button on the Wear OS watch face. Once the installation is finished the button automatically swaps to “Set as watch face”. That’s it. This is all pretty self-explanatory. Just one more click is required to place the watch face on your wearable device. This will likely work with a delay even if your watch and phone are not currently nearby.

new watch face apply button

While the new button is already baked into the APK, and Android Authority was able to demo it, it’s still non-functional. However, hopefully a usability upgrade is just around the corner.

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