Fossil produces what is possibly one of the better Smartwatches available running Android Wear or Wear OS. Their watches manage to capture the allure and feel of traditional smartwatches while bringing it into the future with modern smartwatch functionality. With their recent release of the Wear OS 3 powered Gen 6 smartwatches, it seems like a new update may have just cleaned house; removing a reported 33 watch faces from their library.
The update which was pushed through the PlayStore introduced two new watch faces: Dashboard Digital and Fitness Digital. The new watch faces come with a minimal design but seems to be focused on delivering information that might be important to the Fossil smartwatch owner. Fitness Digital, as the name suggests, focuses on the metrics related to fitness and health; while Dashboard Digital focuses on more essential details.
9to5 Google has reported that with the introduction of the new smartwatch faces, the Fossil Gen 5 lineup also loses 33 watch faces out of the blue. If you were using one of the watch faces listed below, it’s likely you had a rude awakening with the smartwatch reverting to its default watch face when the update was rolled out.
The list of confirmed watch faces is listed below:
- Big Tic
- Blue
- Candice Huffine
- Colorist
- Compass
- Cory Richards
- Darryl Westly
- Defender
- Ettore
- Flip Digital
- Fred
- Grant
- KJ Apa
- Magic 8-Ball
- Mandy Moore
- McKinney
- Mechanical Digital
- Men’s Fashion Digital
- Minimal Dressy
- Minimalist Analog
- Mood
- Movember
- Movember Analog
- Movember Digital
- No Icon Digital
- P-51
- Rainbow
- Robot
- Roulette
- Sail Dial
- Scarlette Shimmer
- Speedometer
- Turn Table
It hasn’t been ascertained if older generations of Fossil smartwatches are affected. That said, the reduction in the number of watch faces could be a good thing when it comes to the Gen 5 Fossil smartwatches. It could indicate that Fossil is preparing the smartwatch for the jump to Wear OS 3. However, nothing has been confirmed by Fossil at the time of writing.
