The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is the latest smartwatch to get Wear OS 5

All of Samsung’s Wear OS smartwatch models have now started receiving One UI 6 Watch in at least one region.

Samsung is reaching the final stage of its lengthy One UI 6 Watch rollout, which brings
Wear OS 5 to all the company’s Wear OS smartwatches. As of today, users in Korea started
seeing the One UI 6 Watch update become available for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy
Watch
4 Classic, according to a post on Samsung’s community forums. The update is

currently available for only the Bluetooth models of the Galaxy Watch 4 series, and
only in Korea — for now.

The company launched One UI 6 Watch alongside the Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy
Watch 7, released in July. It made its way to the Galaxy Watch 6 series late last month. Just
yesterday, Dec. 3, Samsung brought the Wear OS 5 upgrade to the Galaxy Watch 5 series
and the Galaxy Watch FE.

That means all of Samsung’s Wear OS watches, from the oldest Galaxy Watch 4 to the
cheapest Galaxy Watch FE, are beginning to get the boost to One UI 6 Watch. As is
typically the case, Bluetooth models of the Galaxy Watch will receive the upgrade in a few
regions to start. Then, over the coming days and weeks, LTE-equipped models will become
eligible to upgrade, and it’ll arrive in more regions. North American units are often towards
the end of the line when it comes to receiving One UI 6 Watch upgrades.

A core part of the One UI 6 Watch update are health-related feature additions. Samsung is banking
on the combination of Samsung Health and Galaxy AI, aiming to use it to help wearers
improve their fitness and health. Energy Score is like Samsung’s rendition of Garmin’s Body Battery,
and Sleep Analysis aims to let you know how well you slept. These features were exclusive to newer
Galaxy Watch models at first, but are making their way to older ones now.

Samsung initially promised up to four years of software updates for the Galaxy Watch 4,
which isn’t much of a concrete guarantee. However, it appears that old smartwatch may be
nearing the end of its software support. Wear OS 5.1 looks like a minor update, based on
Android 15, so the chances of the Galaxy Watch 4 making it to the eventual Wear OS 6 are
slim.

Still, the first-generation of any product line typically receives poor software support, but
that hasn’t been the case with the Galaxy Watch 4 (which is a first-gen product in the sense
that it was Samsung’s first Wear OS watch). It’s had a great run with software upgrades,
starting with Wear OS 3 and now supporting Wear OS 5.

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