Galaxy Watch 4 receives One UI 6 Watch Beta 4 update with Global AOD

Samsung has released the fourth One UI 6 Watch beta update for the Galaxy Watch 4 series. The smartwatches in the range have received major bug fixes, performance improvements, battery optimizations, and a new feature called Global AOD. The Galaxy Watch 4 and older Galaxy Watches could soon receive the stable One UI 6 Watch update based on Wear OS 5.

Galaxy Watch 4 One UI 6 Watch Beta 4 update with Global AOD feature

The fourth beta version of the One UI 6 Watch update has been released in South Korea for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. It comes with a firmware version that ends with ZXH4 and was also released for the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 6. The update could be released in other countries (like the US) where the company runs the One UI 6 Watch Beta program.

It brings support for the Global Always On Display (AOD) feature to the Galaxy Watch 4 series. The older AOD feature only showed the watch face, but the Global AOD feature shows everything you were looking at before AOD mode was enabled, so you can still see the tiles or other things you were looking at before.

The new update also includes system speed and performance optimizations, faster app launch speeds, improvements in battery consumption and optimizations in network connectivity. Samsung mentions “many other improvements” in its change log but it was not explained in more detail what these improvements were related to.

The story continues after our Galaxy Watch 7 hands-on video below.

Since Samsung has already released five One UI 6 Watch beta updates for the Galaxy Watch 6 series and four beta updates for the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5, it is speculated that the South Korean company might soon release the stable One UI 6 Watch update for all of its Wear OS Galaxy Watches older than the Galaxy Watch 7.

The Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra are the first smartwatches in the world to run Wear OS 5 out of the box. Even the Pixel Watch 3, which also runs Wear OS 5, was launched a month after the Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra.