Google Play Store Redesign Hits Wear OS: Report

The updated Google Play Store brings small changes and it will automatically reach the consumers.

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By Gadgets 360 Staff With Inputs From IANS | Updated: 14 November 2019 17:16 IST
Highlights
  • Google appears to have widely rolled out a Play Store update
  • Update ditches the pull-down menu
  • Previously, the menu indicator often covered the search button

Google Play on Wear OS is slightly better now as the tech giant has given it a design facelift with some refreshing tweaks. Wear OS or Wear OS by Google, which was previously known as Android Wear has been given a new design as Google attempts to improve it.

Spotted on Reddit, Google appears to have widely rolled out a Play Store update for all Wear OS users. At first glance, it's not a radical redesign, but it makes a lot of changes for the better.

First, it ditches the pull-down menu that's been very annoying for quite some time. In the previous design, the menu indicator often covered the search button, 9to5Google reported on Wednesday.

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Wear OS users may be able to spot the differences. They now have My Apps, Accounts, and Settings sections at the bottom of the main page, rather than within a hidden pulldown menu.

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The rest of the Play Store for Wear OS doesn't appear to have changed much. App listings, for example, are basically unchanged, but I think they now have a darker background, the report added.

The update will automatically reach the smartwatches powered by Wear OS and the users don't need to do anything on their own.

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Meanwhile, Fitbit has released a new update for its smartwatches that will start rolling out next month.

 

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Further reading: Google Pay, Wear OS
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