Older watch faces may soon show an incompatibility warning on the Play Stor

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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority

• The Play Store will soon alert users of incompatible watch faces that dont support the Watch Face Format.
• Users will see a warning message within the details section on watch face listings stating that the watch face may not support all complications.

After Samsung unveiled its Wear OS 5-powered Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch Ultra last week, Google confirmed that the new software release wont support older watch faces. The company said that watch faces not designed with the Watch Face Format will not be compatible with Wear OS 5 devices, and its now prepping a warning message for the Play Store that will alert users of the same.

A teardown of Google Play Store version 41.7.16 has surfaced new strings of code pointing to the upcoming warning message. The strings reveal that the Play Store will soon start showing a warning on watch face listings that have not been updated to support the new Watch Face Format complications. The warning will appear within the watch face details section and it will state: “This watchface may not support all complications.”




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