Google makes it easy to find Wear OS apps on the Play Store

As the release of Google’s and Samsung’s common operating system for smartwatches approaches later this year, Google today introduced new Play Store enhancements that will make it easier for customers to find and download apps. on their Wear OS devices.

The company makes it quicker to find smartwatch apps on your Android phone and installs them instantly. New filters are activated when you include “watch” or “watch face” in your search query on the Play Store. Based on this article, it looks like Google will also make an effort to better highlight the best and most useful wrist apps with more organized collections in the designated Wear OS and watchfaces sections of the Play Store.

The Play Store experience on smartwatches is also refined and simplified; Google says it is now “based on the principles of Material You” and better suited to the “small area of ​​a watch face.” Easy-to-use maps are becoming more and more prominent on this version of the Play Store.

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In cases where you want to make an in-app purchase, “the Play Store now reliably prompts the purchase page to open on your Android phone or open a URL in a web browser to easily complete your payment. “.

Google says these tweaks will hit the Play Store on both Wear OS and Android within the standard, vague “coming weeks” timeline that tech companies love so much. While coming to Wear OS first, improvements to discoverability and in-app navigation should also ultimately benefit the new operating system that Google and Samsung are creating together. Samsung has announced that it will announce the first consumer product running this software, known only as “Wear,” later this year. The company recently unveiled what the interface will look like for its next generation Galaxy smartwatches.