Wear OS by Google Reviews

by Izzy The Poop Rooster

Got my Michael Kors Lexington smart watch after pining for a nice semi-flashy (I’m not to Rolex status) Michael Kors smartwatch. First time ever treating myself to jewelry. First piece of jewelry I’ve owned. So excited. Setup went fine. But within 45 min it lost connection with just WearOS . Still showed as discoverable from the Bluetooth list an and still synced outside WearOS but for some reason WearOS wants its own rights to your Bluetooth and wants you to sync in WearOS to access the watch controls from your phone and, the main reasons to get a smart watch, see notifications and respond to them if i want to on my watch. Also makes a mess of your Bluetooth list making two or three instances of my watch as seperate devices to connect to. First google app I have come acros that disappointed me

by CABSR#1

I bought a fossil smart watch (Garrett HR) because I’m a little bit of a watch collector and wanted a smart watch for my collection and the fossil is more affordable than the Apple Watch ( which I will also add to the collection). Downloaded WearOS in the fossil store everything seemed to be ok. I was told I had to update the watch over WiFi (must be able to input WiFi ssid and password). I was on vacation and wound up using a iPhone hotspot, everything was fine. Updated the watch downloaded some apps, all was well until the watch disconnected from WearOS and would not reconnect. Check that WiFi and Bluetooth were still connected to the phone they were. I came to the conclusion the WearOS is garbage it won’t stay connected to the watch. Got home from vacation re-connected to my home WiFi again the Wear Os app disconnected from the watch. WearOS needs a major rework. Gave it one star couldn’t give a half star.

by Ladybug563

At best, it tells time. Other than that I’m continuously having to go back into the watch app and allow messages notifications, which should always be on, so I know when I’m getting messages, but it is ALWAYS disabling messages. I have no idea why but it’s very frustrating. The other half of the time I’m having to reconnect my watch through WearOS because my watch somehow, again, isn’t connected so no notifications are going through. What’s the point of having a smart watch if it’s never connected and not telling you when you get a message? Apple users, don’t opt for this option, it doesn’t work as well as it is advertised. I’ve had this watch close to a year. The faces are very pretty and I like the design much more than apple, but the smart functionality is absolutely terrible.

by Thesilentpriest165

For some reason whenever I connect this to WearOS will not connect to the Internet my watch even though it’s not just one watch I tried my other fossil watch for some reason it keeps disconnecting on the iOS thing and it won’t connect to the Internet it’s really annoying so it’s not just one watch either and I tried disconnecting it and reconnecting it they just won’t do anything it will just say it’s not connected when it is and please can you fix this with another update because it’s just really annoying when I have to connect to my tablet because I’m not near my tablet all the time I’m near my phone all the time which is my iPhoneIt’s been really annoying so please fix it it was working fine before but for some odd reason with the new update it started to not work with the Internet thanks

by ThomasJoezayfyhij 4563

The connection with this watch to my phone is terrible, terrible, terrible. They said it was compatible with iPhone . but I don’t really think that it is. This was false advertisement. I spent a whole entire day and a half reconnecting and connecting. I had reset to my watch to the factory setting at least 4 time . My Bluetooth cannot pair with WearOS . And it’s is constantly disconnecting. I am unable to get notifications. My phone is brand new and the watch is brand new . This system is poor .I don’t think there was enough testing done before this watch and app was launch.I don’t recommend this for anybody please save your money do not download WearOS if you are an iPhone user unfortunately your best compatible smart watch will be an iPhone smart watch. Until this system has worked out all the glitches

by AG274916

I’m an iPhone user who received the Venture HR Gen 4 as a birthday gift and really loved the watch until I had to download WearOS. The watch is only connected with the phone when the Wear OS app is running in the background.

Tracking my workouts and being able to see details of each workout is important to me. WearOS does not give detailed, individual workout info but groups an entire day’s activities together making it hard to distinguish what I only accomplished during the workout. Instead I have to log on to google fit on a computer to see more in depth. I also do not understand the concept of “heart points” and “move minutes”. Seems like an attempt to make WearOS and watch sound more complex than it actually is.

There’s no new or interesting information that WearOS tells me which makes WearOS’s only use to be a gateway between my phone and watch.

by Hannahziebarth

I want WearOS to work so bad, I love my Suunto itself, but I’m getting so frustrated with WearOS not working with my iPhone that I am thinking of selling the watch and getting the Apple watch (which is way less cool, and are so ugly, and don’t have the durability and sports options so I’m so sad I’m getting to that point. I recently damaged my iPhone so I have a replacement until the new one comes out and I can’t connect my watch to it at all. It says my phone isn’t available or discoverable and keeps telling me that I need to use the wear OS app to use the Suunto app. Then say I need to hit the Bluetooth icon to reconnect and then doesn’t connect. I ended up repairing my phone and lost my bike ride for the day that I was really looking forward to tracking. I don’t know. I wish it could just Bluetooth connect to the Suunto app, I would warn most of my friends with iPhones to not even bother getting the watch at this point.

by Hardflipsal

I bought this watch because I didn’t want to pay $450?for an Apple Watch. This watch is $295 so you would think it would work properly. I’ve had it for only a week and it has constant problems. It refuses to connect with my phone unless WearOS is ALWAYS RUNNING in the background. That shouldn’t be seeing as that it is a simple Bluetooth connection. I don’t like that google did this. The Samsung watches just connect t to the phones Bluetooth without WearOS for them always running. My watch never wants to connect to the phone and when it does it constantly disconnects when they’re within 2 feet of each other. The watch itself is nice, but the OS by google isn’t very good. Do yourself a favor and don’t buy a fossil watch that uses this OS. Just disappointed for something that cost almost $300

by JzpvMina

Just got the Bradshaw MK Rose Gold watch, and I Loved it!! I was told it was compatible with the iPhone which I have an iPhone 7Plus. I had invested hours of my time to try to figure out how to get notifications at the least! I have been unsuccessful! I think false advertising that it’s compatible with an iPhone is so wrong on Googles part. They have to given false hope to people so they can pay all this money for a watch that will not work on an iPhone. Like y’all don’t get enough money?! I have to mention that I do have an Apple Watch which works wonderfully, but I wanted a variety as I love watches, and this new age digital watch has been intriguing to me. I sat here reading everyone’s reviews, and I think I only read one review that you all replied to, and that in it of itself should show the companies character, and credibility. Listen & Fix the issues y’all have promised or just reimburse everyone for their products, time, frustration, and stress etc. This isn’t worth it! Had I known I would have gotten a basic watch.
Thanks!

by Carekerncarol

I got this watch thinking that it was an alternative to the Apple Watch. I’ve now had this watch for 3 months and I couldn’t be more disappointed in a product. I’d like to think that the main issue is this “wear os by google” application and not the actually watch, but I could be mistaken. My watch is connected to my phone roughly 3 minutes of the entire day, it is continuously trying to download a systems update, it always shows that I’ve walked 0 steps during the day, and despite having Bluetooth and WiFi turned on “automatic”, I NEVER have access to internet. WearOS tells you to “tap the reconnect icon on your watch”....which gets you nowhere. The help page says to go to “wear os by google > connectivity > WiFi > add network”. It’s interesting advice considering my app is up to date and there is no such option as “connectivity”. I absolutely hate leaving poor reviews like this, but I feel like others should know what they are getting themselves into if they opt for this product. I wouldn’t waste my money on any product that requires this application to operate, until the developers give this application a 360 degree upgrade.

by Meeeeeehhfysidhuh

WearOS is completely ridiculous, my watch won’t stay connected if I leave my phone 10 ft away from me. It is excruciatingly slow and has really no features in WearOS that aren’t features within the watch settings. The funny part about it is, I had to reinstall Wear OS because I thought maybe that would help. But I noticed that once I had uninstalled WearOS , al of a sudden the watch sped up, and was functioning much more quickly. But of course you have to have WearOS for the watch to work. This is definitely a problem from google wear OS, and not my watch. You guys need to scrap it and rebuild from the ground up. I usually set google to a high standard with anything. WearOS is a joke. Since WearOS is so slow and nonfunctional, I had to reset to factory setting five times for it to finish setup without a crash. It spent me the whole day. And I believe that is ridiculous- it should’ve been able to set up and get working at an hour TOPS. Can we know if this is getting resolved ever so we can get functions watches, or should we all just say enough is enough and get a watch that has an actually functional OS?

by ****sad****

WearOS feels like a test rather than a production application. I choose not to log into a google account - don’t have one - during my setup. Maybe that’s the reason??. There are no features in WearOS itself that isn’t already in the watch.
WearOS successfully loaded my contacts. However, you cannot dial out to a contact from the watch. Calls show up on the watch, you can even accept calls, but that’s it! You cannot talk to the caller from the watch - guess there’s a phone for that. Very slow connecting to the watch! Also, have to force connect with the watch and app after some time of inactivity.
Hope the final product comes out soon!

by LibertadAurora

I own an Apple Watch for daily use, but my husband got me a Rose Gold Michael Kors Access Bradshaw smartwatch for Christmas. Other than basic notifications and apps, there isn’t much it can do with iPhone, but I still love it as an elegant alternative.
The downfall is that my husband got me a beautiful Michael Kors Access Sofie Pave Silver toned smartwatch (which I fell in love with!) for our anniversary, but whenever I link a watch to Wear OS it erases the other watch info. If you want to switch watches you need to reset your watch to factory settings, then link it again (which in turn erases the other one again).
It’s pretty frustrating...
I think it should provide a way to switch watches in a more user-friendly, seamless way.
I’ll change my rating if they do.

by Jaywalker808

I have a Diesel Axial (comparable to Fossil Gen 5) and it took some trial & error to get things to be ok for my day to day use. A lot of users don’t know that iOS users have to keep Wear OS open in the background at all times while watch is in use. If I allow my watch to receive calls through the speaker, my watch will disconnect after an hour or 2, so I didn’t connect that feature and my watch stays connected. iPhone users can’t respond to messages and atm there’s no work around for our normal text messages. But, for what I need this watch for: important news alerts, text message notifications, weather, counting steps and remote control for music on my phone... my watch has been working as great as Wear Os allows it. Looking forward to future improvements for us non-iwatch fans!

by Radical MT

I contacted the Michael Kors access support because this is the watch I have. The replied with some suggestions and they worked for me. Hope they work for u as well. Good luck

Therefore, we would suggest you perform a complete factory reset and hope it solves the problem. Please follow the instructions below step by step:
· Update your iPhone to the newest iOS 11.3

· Fully charge your watch and your phone

· Go to Wear OS by Google app>Advanced Settings>Disconnect Bradshaw or Forget Watch

· Go to your iPhone Settings>Find Bradshaw under My Devices>Choose the blue circle with letter "i" in it and choose Forget This Device, if the blue circle is not showing, please switch off and on the Bluetooth

· Uninstall the Wear OS by Google app and reinstall it

· Go to your watch Settings>System>Disconnect & Reset

· Go to your iPhone Settings>Privacy>Location Services>Turn the main switch on and turn on the switch for Wear OS by Google

· Once the watch turns back on, tap to begin on the watch and follow the prompts to pair it with the Wear OS by Google app

· Please do not pair the watch through Bluetooth directly, we will need to pair it through WearOS

by Rob89129

The disconnected phone problem is if you close out of WearOS it will disconnect your watch. I have had the same problem as most people but I went to the fossil store today and they even replaced my watch. I walked out of the store and it disconnected again. I have a habit of closing out all my apps when I put my phone away and when it tells you to check your notification to reconnect your phone you just scroll to look at your notifications on the watch, open WearOS on your phone, hit the notification on the watch and then hit reconnect. It will reconnect your phone. I have an iPhone 8 Plus and i was starting to get really irritated with the watch for that disconnect reason. So if you leave WearOS open on your phone and just keep it running in the background you shouldn’t have any more problems. I called the store and let them know. They need to make this issue more known and how to fix it. Now I just got to get used to leaving it open on my phone.

by Boom Mot

I own a Fossil Q, and at first I loved it, I still love the watch, but there are a few issues. Recently, my step counter stopped working and it now says I walk 0 steps a day. The calorie meter is screwed over and it tells me I burned 1,994 calories a day. I saw that I could receive messages and updates, but I could not answer them. This is not WearOS . If your watch does not have a cellular option in the connectivity section of the options, the you cannot reply to calls or texts. It still works great and I don’t have to delete in reinstall, but I wished that WearOS had said that some watches wouldn’t work with calls and texts. Also WearOS gets a lot of updates, forcing my watch to disconnect and then spending like 30 minutes reconnecting

by Barroom

I previously had a Samsung and just recently decided to try the new iPhone. I’ve used a fossil smart watch for over a year and never had issues with my galaxy. I noticed with the iPhone the watch wouldn’t stay connected unless WearOS was open in the background. I did some research and called fossil and couldn’t figure it out. I noticed that the “always on” feature for the watch face was turned off, where the watch wouldn’t display anything unless it was tilted awake(I had this feature turned on w my galaxy) Once I turned that setting on it seemed to stay connected!
I do think there could be some improvements, but as long as it stays connected like it is now, I’ll be happy.

by Vdrtc225588

I just bought a Movado conect 2.0 In Rose gold and downloaded the wear OS app. At first, I was a little disappointed when I read the reviews that you couldn’t get messages or calls if you had an iPhone but I love Movado watches and I wasn’t going to return it. At first, I wasn’t able to get text or calls but after syncing my email account I was able to get all my contacts, text messages on my watch as well as calls. I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing this; but I’m able to read all texts on my watch as well as take the calls on my watch. I can talk and they can hear me but I can’t hear them on my watch but I didn’t buy the watch to talk to people for that I have my phone. I’m happy with just been able to read the texts on my watch and been able to see who’s calling me before I pick up my phone. I have no problems with connectivity so far, my watch has stayed connected the whole time and I get all my emails and calendars appointments. I can track my heart rate and steps as well as calories. I love this watch. So far no problems.

by Mayseth141

WearOS is great. If you want a smart watch but don’t want to spend the money on an Apple Watch, there are plenty of cheaper ones running Google’s Wear OS and WearOS allows you use them with no problems. Of course you can’t do as much as you can with an Apple Watch because Apple blocks certain features that Google can’t control such as text replies, camera usage, etc. but the basics such as notifications, calendars, etc. work with out any problems. When people say they're watches are randomly disconnecting, it’s because they close WearOS . The one downside about WearOS that Google has zero control of is WearOS has to be open at all times in order for the watch to stay connected to the phone.

by Jannaboo

I was so super excited to get a “stylish” smart watch on the new Kate Spade Scalloped Smart Watch. I should have done my homework. My fabulous watch requires this application to run which in essence DOESN’T “run” at all. If you are an IPhone user, BEWARE. WearOS continually tells me I need to copy my google account from my phone to the watch but I have tried everything and it always says failed to copy. 😡 Due to this, I can not use what limited features I actually have access to (since I have an Iphone). Basically I have a glorified digital watch thanks to this disgrace of an app. I’m amazed that with today’s market that Google actually made something so disgraceful and that so many designer brands who have introduced their own brand of smart watches are relying on WearOS for their products!!

by Brittany2211

I got this watch for a Christmas present. My husband bought it on sale, so by the time I got the watch and got to really try it, the return window had passed. I am thoroughly disappointed in this product. I have had constant issues - my watch is never “connected” to my app, my data is never transferred to and from my watch, my messages never come through, etc. It is a constant battle to just get the watch to work, let alone do anything extra like show a text message. I am emailing the support and getting steps to go through to update my watch, make things work, etc. Just spend the money for an Iwatch and do not hassle with this. I was a lifelong fossil watch person until this watch/system and now I don’t think I can go back.

by Flylikeme

I love my Fossil Q Explorist. The watch looks great and the apps functionality is ideal, but that was before I bought an IPhone. Andriod has everything polished while Apple has everything broken. My Andriod stayed connected to my watch all the time, allowed me to send texts, and actually get notifications. My watch only connects to my IPhone when the Wear OS app is open. Even then the functionality is limited to seeing notifications, not interacting with them. Lastly, I don't know why but my watch battery drains faster when connected to my IPhone, I found it easier to leave my watch disconnected throughout the day and only connect it to wifi when I'm home.

by Mystyk101

I have an LG Urbane II which did work with my iPhone. Between Apple’s updates and Google’s updates I now have a worthless hunk of technology! Even when it worked the functionality was minimum, but bearable (I.e. no ability to answer texts or calls or download apps for the watch; which I’m sure was an Apple restriction). It did however it did receive texts and emails, monitored my steps etc, and looked like a traditional watch. Now it just sits there unable to connect at all. Googles update really worked out the bugs al right!! I had to give it 1 star because the system wouldn’t let me give none!! Not everyone wants an Apple Watch!! Thoroughly disgusted!!!

by Short&Suave

Recently upgraded to the iPhone 11 pro from a Xs Max
This watch usually goes in and out of connection a lot and I’ve been dealing wit it wasn’t too bad just a little annoying, but since my upgrade it won’t connect at all. I get through the pairing and it shows my phone in the Bluetooth on my watch but it still won’t connect it just says unavailable. I’m highly disappointed and at this point wouldn’t recommend this product to anyone, it’s a waste of money i should of just got the Apple Watch but I really liked the design for the price smh.