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Samsung Announces One UI Watch 4.5 Coming To Galaxy Watch 4 With Wear OS 3.5
After releasing 3 Beta builds, Samsung has now officially announced the One UI Watch 4.5 update. Based on Google Wear OS 3.5 the latest version brings several new features to provide a more complete watch experience.
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Samsung One UI Watch 4.5 comes with a more immersive typing experience, easier ways to make calls, and a bunch of new intuitive accessibility features. To be mentioned, the One UI Watch 4.5 will be firstly available for Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.
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Samsung One UI Watch 4.5 Features
Advanced QWERTY Keyboard
Whether you’re searching or replying to messages and emails, One UI Watch 4.5 adds a complete typing experience to the screen. In addition to dictation and handwriting, you can type with the new full QWERTY keyboard with swipe functionality, making it easier than ever to communicate with your watch. Also, it allows you to seamlessly switch inputs at any time.
Make Easy Call with Dual SIM Support
One UI Watch 4.5. supports dual SIM cards to make calls on the Galaxy Watch easy. Users can use desired SIM card on their Galaxy smartphone and sync it on the Galaxy Watch. Now, it is very easy to see which SIM card you are using on your watch because of the easy-to-read interface. By selecting the ‘Ask always’ option on your smartphone, you can select which SIM you like to use on your smartwatch.
Easy Accessible Watch Faces
The Galaxy Watch is not only an on-the-go communication tool, but it also offers greater adaptability of the watch face, so it looks better. With the latest update, you can enjoy your favorite watch faces in different styles by adding watch faces to your favorites list multiple times and customizing each instance with different colors. After adding, you can quickly access your favorite Watch faces without opening the entire collection.
Visual Accessibility Feature and Hearing Enhancement
With One UI Watch 4.5, you can adjust the display to their desired shade and increase the contrast to make fonts easier to read. Also, you can reduce transparency and blurring effects as well as remove animations. For hearing enhancement, users to balance the sound of the left and right audio outputs from a connected Bluetooth headset.
Interaction and Dexterity Options
The newly added accessibility feature also includes the extension of the duration of on-screen tap interactions with tap duration and disables repeated touch input for better control by ignoring repeated touches. Now, you can accessibility option directly from a convenient menu means you don’t have to go to Settings.
It is worth mentioned that Samsung will officially release Galaxy One UI Watch 4.5 in the third quarter with more amazing features.
Samsung is not forgetting its older smartwatches, even though it has switched to Wear OS for its latest models. Right now, Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 is getting a new update that adds two watch faces of One UI 5 Watch.
The fresh update brings two new watch faces to the Galaxy Watch Active 2 – Stretched Time and Perpetual. These watch faces were introduced with the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, which runs on Wear OS 4 with Samsung’s One UI 5 Watch.
The update does not change the operating system of the Galaxy Watch Active 2, which remains on Tizen OS. Samsung has confirmed that it will not update its older Tizen-based smartwatches to Wear OS, but it will continue to support them with security and feature updates.
If you have received the update notification then install it now. Users need to open the Samsung Wearable app on their connected phone, go to Watch settings, select Watch software update, and tap Download and install.
Samsung has been updating its smartwatch lineup with the latest One UI Watch 5 software, which debuted with the Galaxy Watch 6 series. However, not all Samsung smartwatches are eligible for the One UI Watch 5 update but the company promised to bring some of the new watch faces for them. Right now, Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 has started receiving a new update that adds One UI 5 watch faces.
The new update of the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 comes with two faces of One UI 5 Watch update, which are Stretched Time and Perpetual. These watch faces were previously exclusive to the One UI Watch 5 devices, and they offer a minimalist and elegant design.
Users of Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 are getting the new update in Europe with firmware versions R840XXU1DWK2 /R850XXU1DWK2. The Tizen OS version stays unchanged at 5.5.0.2. The Galaxy Watch Active 2 is expected to get the same update soon.
To update the Galaxy Watch 3, users need to open the Samsung Wearable app on their connected phone, go to Watch settings, select Watch software update, and tap Download and install.
Some third-party watch faces on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 series do not show the preview when you use the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone to customize them. If you own a Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 series and use some third-party watch faces, you might have noticed this issue.
However, Samsung has officially confirmed that this is happening because of a bug that prevents the Galaxy Wearable app from processing the events related to watch face customization provided by Google.
Samsung has acknowledged this issue and plans to release a software update that will fix it. In addition, the Korean tech giant has shared a temporary solution to resolve this issue through the community.
You can still customize the watch face on your watch, without using your phone. You just need to follow a few easy steps – Press and hold the watch screen on your Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 series >> Swipe left or right to select the watch face you want to customize >> Tap on the customize button >> Now you can customize as you like.
If you are facing any issues with your Galaxy Watch then make sure to update it to the latest available software.
For that, you just need to open the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone that is connected to your Galaxy Watch 4/5/6 series >> Tap on the watch settings option on the app’s home screen >> Click on the update watch software option >> Press download and install option to start the update process.