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Samsung is here with a new One UI Watch 5 beta update for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 series. The latest build, which is the third since the beta program opened about a month back, brings several bug fixes and functional improvements. It also contains the latest Android security patch (July 2023). The company may release the One UI Watch 5 stable update next month.
Galaxy Watches get their third One UI Watch 5 beta update
Samsung began bet testing One UI Watch 5 for its Wear OS smartwatches early last month. It rolled out two beta build in a span of just over a week. The second release quashed a host of bugs and anomalies present in the original build. A few weeks later, the company is rolling out another beta update with more bug fixes.
As of this writing, the third beta build of One UI Watch 5 is only available to registered users in South Korea. But the beta program is also open in the US. If you have enrolled your Galaxy Watch 4 or Galaxy Watch 5 in it, you should soon get an OTA (over the air) update. The package weighs slightly more than 425MB and carries a firmware version ending with ZWFC. The previous build number ended with ZWF4.
As for bug fixes, a screenshot posted on Twitter reveals that Samsung has fixed an issue related to blood oxygen measurements during sleep. The new update also improves sleep tracking and optimizes screen brightness for better visibility outdoors. It patched battery drain issues as well. The update should also bring system stability and reliability improvements, and new security patches.
The stable update is expected in a month
Based on Wear OS 4, One UI Watch 5 brings many new features and functional improvements to Galaxy Watches. Wear OS 4 itself is based on Android 13, with Google skipping Android 12 for its watch platform (Wear OS 3 was based on Android 11). Samsung smartwatches will be the first to get the new Wear OS version.
The Korean firm hasn’t yet released a timeline for the rollout of the stable One UI Watch 5 update for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 series. But we are expecting the big update to arrive next month. The company is gearing up to launch the Galaxy Watch 6 series at the end of July. The new watches will almost certainly run One UI Watch 5 out of the box. Older models should pick it up shortly afterward. We will let you know when Samsung rolls out the update.