US EditionGalaxy Watch Models on Tizen Will Be Basically Useless Starting Later This Month
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On September 2, 2025, less than a month before, Samsung's decision leaves no room for doubt: all Galaxy Watch still operating on Tizen OS will lose access to the Galaxy Store on September 30, 2025. The shutdown of downloads, already progressive since 2024, becomes total and imposes on the owners of these connected watches a restricted use, without new application or possibility of relocation, sealing a major turning point in the history of Galax…
Support for Samsung's Tizen OS will end on September 30th. Samsung has always been known for the longevity of its support for its devices, both smartphones and smartwatches. However, the Tizen OS era is now definitively approaching its end, on September 30th. The operating system powered the brand's smartwatches until the Galaxy Watch 3, released in 2020. The retirement process was announced in May of last year and has been phased in. First, it …
Samsung recently introduced the new Galaxy Watch 8 (hands-on here) and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic (reviewed here), all of which run on Google's Wear OS. Things used to be very different though, as Samsung initially shipped its smartwatches with the Linux-based Tizen OS. Although the Tizen smartwatches were very popular, they couldn't really meet Samsung's standards due to the limited app selection. The associated watches were supported for a long ti…
Samsung will soon be permanently switching from Tizen OS to its smartwatches. The remaining users have a few weeks to take advantage of the feature.
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