In the intervening time, when you change to a brand new smartphone and also you’re sticking with the identical Put on OS smartwatch, your solely (formally supported) choice is to reset the watch and begin once more from scratch. That is not an excellent situation – however it seems as if assistance is on the best way.

As noticed by XDA Builders (opens in new tab), there’s now code within the Google Play Providers app for Android that references with the ability to again up Put on OS knowledge to Google One within the cloud, earlier than syncing it again to the wearable (presumably after a cellphone change).

There’s now a “Again up your machine with Google One” textual content string, for instance, along with the choice to decide on a Google account to make use of for the backup. From the code that is been noticed earlier than, it seems as if this shall be an opt-in characteristic.

The ready recreation

From what we all know thus far, there isn’t any indication of when the characteristic may discover its technique to customers. Google hasn’t mentioned something formally, and it is not clear how a lot of a precedence it’s for the Google engineers engaged on Put on OS.

Nonetheless, the upcoming arrival of the Google Pixel Watch – anticipated round September or October time – can be the proper alternative so as to add some main new performance to Put on OS. We’re assuming that almost all smartwatches operating Put on OS, or at the least these launched lately, shall be getting the improve.

Samsung lately launched the Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy Watch 5 Professional, and the Apple Watch eight is predicted earlier than the tip of the 12 months, so the competitors within the smartwatch house is more durable than ever as Google readies its first product on this class.

Evaluation: Google will get there in the long run

It is encouraging to see that Google is lastly engaged on cloud backups for Put on OS, however given the corporate’s experience in all issues web, it is one thing of a disappointment that it took Google this lengthy to get round to including the characteristic.

Google additionally took its time finding out backups for Android: getting your cellphone knowledge transferred to a brand new machine was a ache for a few years, earlier than Google lastly launched official apps and companies (together with Google One) to make the method a lot simpler.

Now you can again up knowledge from an Android or iOS machine to Google One, and it does not depend in direction of your space for storing both (so it does not matter when you pay for extra space or not). It is doubtless that the Put on OS model goes to work in the identical method.

Do not maintain your breath although: in keeping with the code that is been noticed in Google Play, it is a characteristic that is nonetheless very a lot in its early levels, so it may be some time but earlier than you are seamlessly shifting your Put on OS smartwatch between telephones.

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