Google kills Weather app for Wear OS 6
Google is killing off its Weather app for Pixel smartwatches — and replacing it with a new Pixel Weather app.
For the original Weather app, it will be a slow death, however.
Any watch running Wear OS 6 — as well as any other OS moving forward — will no longer be able to download Google's built-in Weather app. If your smartwatch is running OS 5 or older, you can still download the app.
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Chances are that if you're running OS 6 on your watch, then you can keep using the app, at least for the time being. But things do get a bit more complicated. Pixel watch owners running OS 6 and newer will eventually be migrated to the updated Pixel Weather app.
Google wrote in a blog about the news: "If you have a Pixel Watch on Wear OS 6 or newer: Your watch will automatically come with (or be upgraded to) the new Pixel Weather app. You don't need to do anything."
Other brands of Android smartwatches — Samsung, OnePlus, Mobvoi — running OS 6 or newer can keep using the Weather app if it's already installed.
So, no matter what, you'll be able to look at your wrist and see the forecast. It might just look different moving forward.
Topics Apps & Software Google Smartwatches
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