Samsung begins Wear OS 5 rollout for Galaxy Watch 4, but there’s a catch

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• Samsung is rolling out the stable Wear OS 5 update for the Galaxy Watch 4 users who participated in the One UI 6 Watch beta program.
• The update includes a redesigned Quick Panel, refreshed notification cards, a new font, and better Samsung Health features.
• A global rollout is expected to begin soon for all Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic users.

Although the*Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 series is now a few years old, this top-tier smartwatch has held up surprisingly well. If you are using one, you’d be glad to learn that Samsung has begun rolling out the latest Wear OS 5 update with the One UI 6 Watch skin on top for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.

Samsung has just ended the One UI 6 Watch beta program for the Watch 4 series, as pointed out by Reddit user Enjinr. According to Sammyguru, users who participated in the beta program are getting the stable firmware version IXK1 with the October security patch. This update bumps up the beta users into the stable Wear OS 5 release.




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