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WearOS 2.1 Featuring Major Redesign and Better Gestures Now Rolling Out

Earlier this year in March, Google officially rebranded its Android Wear platform as ‘Wear OS by Google’ which was unveiled at the Baselworld watch show in Switzerland. As part of the update, Google promised to introduce new features and improvements to the platform over the coming weeks and months. Following that in August, Google announced a refreshed WearOS with simpler gestures, a more proactive Google Assistant and easier activity tracking. As promised, the update is finally rolling out in September, although it’s almost the end of the September.

Now, according to a recent report from Android Police, Google has started rolling out the update, called WearOS 2.1, bringing a complete redesign for the platform. The updated WearOS makes everything more accessible to the user by introducing a ton of quality-of-life improvement. The company also posted a short video on Twitter highlighting some of the major changes coming to the platform.

With WearOS 2.1, notifications will no longer take up the entire screen, swiping left on the main screen will take users to the Google Assistant and swiping right from the home screen will display health related data. The quick settings panel on WearOS 2.1 has also been improved and now include new shortcuts for Google Pay and Find My Phone to make these features more accessible.

As of now, only a few people have received the update along with the redesigned interface. Google now claims that the update should reach all supported devices over the next month, so there’s no need to panic in case you haven’t received the update yet.

Google has also clarified than any watch that received Android Wear 2.0 should receive the WearOS 2.1 update, which means that the update should roll out to all devices except for a few first generation Android smartwatches.

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