One UI 8 Watch to offer a new charging animation on Galaxy Watches

Teardown of One UI 8 Watch's Samsung Diagnostic app reveals that it packs a new charging animation. Here's how it looks.

Earlier this month, Samsung’s upcoming Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch for Galaxy Watches leaked (along with its upcoming Android 16-based One UI 8.0 for Galaxy phones). Since then, people have been digging into it to find new features. Today, they’ve come across a new one, and that is, when you place these smartwatches on a charger, it will show a new animation.

One UI 8 Watch comes pre-loaded with the Samsung Diagnostic app. Folks at Android Authority conducted its teardown and found that it contains an animation for Galaxy Watches to show when you place them on a charger. It is entirely different from the animation that One UI 6 Watch offers for the same scenario. You can check it out in the image below.

samsung galaxy watch wear os 6 based one ui 8 watch charging animation

As you can see, while One UI 6 Watch displays charging indication and status with a green circle around the display, One UI 8 Watch shows a pill-shaped container with a charging indicator and battery percentage. If you are thinking that it looks similar to the charging animation in One UI 7 for Galaxy phones and tablets, you aren’t wrong.

In our opinion, the new animation not only looks much better than the one from before but also offers a consistent look across phones/tablets and smartwatches. At the moment, there's no information about when Samsung will release One UI 8 Watch. You can check if your Galaxy Watch is eligible for the update or not here.

Abid Iqbal Shaik - Writer

First Samsung device: Galaxy S II

I’m a computer science engineer living in Hyderabad, India, who has a keen interest in automobiles and consumer electronics. My journalism career kicked off in 2017 with MySmartPrice where I wrote news, features, buying guides, and explanatory articles about technology among other things, and reviewed many products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, PC components, smartwatches, audio devices, wearables, and smart home products. Since then, I have worked for 91Mobiles, Apple, and Onsitego, before finally landing on SamMobile.

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