Android Watch Mega thread 2025

[sjsharksfan12]

Is anyone else not a fan of the current watch update Watch One UI 8? I was Samsung had given us options in terms of when the watch is charging can the screen go off instead of being all bright with the charging symbol. Also, the way they are doing widgets and notifications is a little screwy. It doesn't make me want to get rid of the watch, but I don't think I'm a fan of this update.

 

[Ludatyk]

Is anyone else not a fan of the current watch update Watch One UI 8?

Yeah, I enjoyed using One UI 8 during the time I had the Galaxy Watch Ultra... their new tiles feature was nice to have, made some slight changes to the notification center. However... wasn't really a big update, but the new tiles feature I really liked having (with the ability to fully customize it).

I was Samsung had given us options in terms of when the watch is charging can the screen go off instead of being all bright with the charging symbol.

Yeah, I wasn't fan of that. Pixel Watch has the screen off when charging.

Also, the way they are doing widgets and notifications is a little screwy. It doesn't make me want to get rid of the watch, but I don't think I'm a fan of this update.

There's no widgets on the watch... maybe you are referring to the tiles? But yeah... I don't really care for the notifications on the Galaxy Watches, one of the reasons I went with the Pixel Watch.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Yeah, I enjoyed using One UI 8 during the time I had the Galaxy Watch Ultra... their new tiles feature was nice to have, made some slight changes to the notification center. However... wasn't really a big update, but the new tiles feature I really liked having (with the ability to fully customize it).


Yeah, I wasn't fan of that. Pixel Watch has the screen off when charging.


There's no widgets on the watch... maybe you are referring to the tiles? But yeah... I don't really care for the notifications on the Galaxy Watches, one of the reasons I went with the Pixel Watch.

Tiles. For example, I have the activity tile and you can put something like the weather tile below it. Well, what if I just wanted the activity tile and just have it bigger. There's no way to have it bigger so it's half the screen and it's pretty small. Of course if there was a way to resize it, that's great.

 

[MarkX]

Is anyone else not a fan of the current watch update Watch One UI 8? I was Samsung had given us options in terms of when the watch is charging can the screen go off instead of being all bright with the charging symbol. Also, the way they are doing widgets and notifications is a little screwy. It doesn't make me want to get rid of the watch, but I don't think I'm a fan of this update.

Go to watch settings, display and turn off show charging info. Now the screen will be off when charging.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Go to watch settings, display and turn off show charging info. Now the screen will be off when charging.

Thank you. That was very helpful.

 

[Ludatyk]

Wanted to share my new favorite watch face... very easy setup process, like this particular wallpaper in how the black blends in with the bezels.