The Google assistant on the watch is messed up if you try to call or text with it. It keeps giving me the "can't connect to phone" when I try to use them or another feature that doesn't work such as the "play music" option. The saying "ok google" feature also doesn't work even though I have it enabled. From what I've seen these problems have been going on for a while now and many other people are having the same issues.
Reviews for Wear OS by Google Smartwatch
← Back to Wear OS by Google SmartwatchI absolutely hate the 2.1 update. The notification font size has been decreased and multiple notifications are seen at once, making it incredibly hard to see what the notification is about. And, of course, there's no way to change this behavior. Google, once again, couldn't leave something alone and had to fix something that wasn't broken...
Update 2/20/22 still sucks. Having to go through the setup process is so painful. Until they find a way backup settings like a new phone I'm done. It's impossible to remember the plethora of settings that need to be in place to work... wellness, fit etc. Never detects activity automatically. In the end I think the Casio I wore 8th grade was more useful. Cumbersome, limited, buggy. The $250I wear os device tells time well.
This app used to work fine, but now it fails to change my music via Google assistant. the other calls to Google assistant seem to work, it can send texts and get weather reports and start phone calls. When I ask to change music it either says Google can't be reached or the phone isn't connected. however I know that the phone is connected because I can skip out rewind tracks with the watch controls. Not being able to ask for a specific song pretty much ruins the experience. It worked for months.
Complete rewrite... I just want to know if anybody that works on this actually tries to use it? I use Outlook for work and random calendars are available in the agenda area in the app but selecting them doesn't necessarily mean that they'll show up on the agenda on the watch. Google Assistant works about half the time. Answering calls on the watch is hit or miss. The most infuriating thing is you can choose to answer and it'll tell you to go to your phone. This feels like a multi-year beta
Super clunky, slow OS. It's definitely what I'd call unusable. The one thing that really gets me is you can't change the screen timeout time and basically everything takes longer to load than that. So when you click on something, the screen goes black and will sometimes go home so you have to start over again. My workouts never start tracking on google fit either. I basically have to start a workout 15-25 times for it to actually start. That takes about 5 minutes. 5 minutes to click start.
No way to block notifications for a certain time. I use Silence Premium app on my phone to setup "do not disturb" mode at night (10pm to 8am). For the Tickwatch - it doesn't work! Any WhatsApp, or Hangout, or any other message, sent too late or too early - causes vibration on the watch and wake you up. You can only block notifications on the watch completely (one at a time!) through this app. And then, in the morning you have to turn then back on (on at a time). Or don't get messages at all.
I've only had my watch (Fossil Carlyle) a couple of days, but so far it has been more frustrating than anything else. The screen timeout is the worst offender by far. How am I supposed to even get familiar with what this can do when I'm only allowed to look at the screen for a stupidly short amount of time? After some research I've found I can change that, but only with a 3rd party paid app. Another basic feature that seems to be missing is text messages. Again, 3rd party paid app.
It's cool and all, it pretty much works great but their BIGGEST flaw is that you can not speak to text to SEND a text. You can only do it to REPLY to a text. But if you need to just send one, it doesn't work. I went online to see if I could fix the problem some how and there were HUNDREDS or people talking about having the same problem. It's not something you can really "fix". Some people say that Uninstalling google from your phone helps,but having a Pixel you can't really do that. Soo..
I dig it overall, but I'd love to see a flip display & buttons settings. I have a Fossil smartwatch. I wear it on my left wrist, and the buttons are on the right. Which means when I lean on a desk it hits the crown button, and will cause it to reboot. I tried wearing it on my right hand, but I am not used to that. The watchbands however are interchangeable, so I could switch them to make the watch upside down on my left arm, and the buttons will point toward my elbow.
Last update to either this or my OS broke the ability to track workouts with GPS. Now when I try ending a run, the watch freezes and won't turn on again until on the charging cradle, regardless of battery percentage. Worse yet, there's no way to register a halt in the workout and my stats are lost. Finally ditching Wear OS for a proper running watch (just arrived) to track my vital stats as I train for my next half marathon.
Can't connect. The app asks me for permission to scan for my watch. When I approve it provides an error msg. When I DENY IT however, it goes thru to the next step (makes no sense). But because I denied it the ability to connect to anything, it just scans and scans but never finds anything - EVEN THO my watch is open and available to connect. It won't pop up as an available device to connect to on the app. At this point I've gone so long w/out the app, I'm starting to think I don't Even need it.
Works great but it could be more useful to add a feature that the clock notifies when the Bluetooth is out-of-range just like some wireless headsets do. So it could be used when sometimes the clock is disconnected and you didn't notice it or you left or forgot your cellphone somewhere and you're not carrying it with you anymore so you go back to your car or house and get it back, for example . You get the idea. Keep with the good work.
There's a feature that went missing with 2.0 the timer when voice responding or composing a message. Now I have to press send. Atleast put the option to have it or remove it. Example. Both my hands are full with groceries and I ask google on my watch, text my wife to unlock the door. It composes it but it doesn't send unless I press send. My hands are full my goodness. Before 2.0, it had a timer that would auto send if you didn't press cancel. Now that is convinient. Bring this feature back.
Like alot of the other reviews, it worked great until the recent update. Now I can't use my watch at all on Android. Works fine for apple though. Please get this fixed! I really have enjoyed it for the last 3 years. *Update- when it disconnected it saved Bluetooth data in my phone. I had to reset all of my Bluetooth setting to get it to work again. Still not a great option, but my watch works now. Hope this helps someone.
It's boring. It synchronized just fine, but the available selections are disappointing. You can only choose from about 8 "tiles" that they provide and can't add any that I actually want to use like Pandora or even texting! I can reply to a text but I can't initiate one w/o using Google assistant which I don't use. It doesn't monitor sleep... Limited faces... I'm just really disappointed that I wasted my money on this Fossil watch. It looks great but this software is very bland and basic.
It worked at first but after a couple "upgrades" the app no longer opens. Have to set my Google watch manually and now only use it for time, when it's accurate. If I knew I couldn't utilize the features after a couple months of use, I wouldn't have gotten it. It's ridiculous the watch can't sync to my phone without the app. Now when the watch dies I have to set it all over again. It seems nominal but after weeks of doing this, I no longer care to wear the Google watch. And I love watches 😤
I just got the Ticwatch e and the app is decent. For the most part I like the update but before the update my texts and WhatsApp messages were easier to read. I could scroll through the last several texts and see profile pictures too, and replying was simple. I do not like the new one. I can only see the last text. No profile pictures and the "quick responses" are annoying and way to easy to accidentally hit.. please is there anyway I can go back to the way they were before the update??
Overall, it's a pretty user friendly app. I just wish I could add my photo for the watch face through Google Photos not just Facebook and Instagram. I also wish there were more customizable options for the watch face. I haven't quite figured out how to talk on the phone from my watch, either, but I haven't put a ton of time into it. Overall I feel it's a decent smartwatch for the average user.
Newest update still takes several factory resets to get it to connect. It works well once you get it to connect. Factory reset my phone and now I can't connect to my watch. Attempting a "disconnect and reset" again on the watch to connect again. Annoyingly, this seems to be the only way to reconnect the watch. Getting notifications and being able to reply is nice, but sometimes it doesn't actually send the reply. Also, if I have it set up to make/receive calls on the watch, my phone won't connect to my car.