I’m going to lose my mind if Wear OS 6 doesn’t add this one feature

Google’s Wear OS smartwatch platform has come a long way over the years, and in 2025, it’s in pretty darn good shape. Wear OS 5 is faster, more reliable, and overall more enjoyable to use than any previous iteration of the software. As someone who bought a Samsung Galaxy Gear as soon as it was available in the fall of 2013, watching the evolution of Wear OS (and Android Wear before it) has been something.

But for all the improvements Google has made to Wear OS, there’s one missing feature that’s been an issue since the beginning — and something that persists to this very day in Wear OS 5.