Release notes

Welcome to Wear OS 5 Developer Preview! The latest version of Wear OS 5 Developer Preview—released on May 15, 2024—has the following properties and support:

  • Emulator build number: AW2A.240422.007.E4
  • Emulator support: 64-bit only; supports x86-64 and arm64-v8a ABIs
  • Android security patch: June 5, 2024
  • Google Play services: 24.12.12

This first release is for developers only, to help with early development, testing, and feedback. Wear OS 5 Developer Preview is an early baseline build that's still in active development.

Wear OS 5 Developer Preview includes behavior changes to help improve performance, battery life, security, and privacy. In some cases, these changes can affect apps until they are updated to support Wear OS 5 Developer Preview, so you might see impacts ranging from minor issues to more significant limitations. In general, most apps, APIs, and features, but review any known issues and test your app to get a better idea of what to expect.

How to get Wear OS 5 Developer Preview

Set up Wear OS on an emulator.

General advisories

Be aware of these general advisories about the release:

  • This release might have various stability, battery, or performance issues.
  • For users with accessibility needs, this release might not be appropriate for daily use.
  • Some apps might not function as expected when running on this release. This limitation includes Google's apps as well as other apps.

Get support

Two primary support channels are available to you when developing and testing with Wear OS 5 Developer Preview. The channel you should use to get support depends on where you are encountering your issue.

  • Support for device-specific issues, system issues, and issues with Google apps: Use the Issue Tracker to create new issues and to view and track issues that you and other developers have submitted.

    Before creating your own issue, check the known issues listed on this page and search the lists of top open issues and recently created issues to see if someone else has already reported it. You can subscribe and vote for an issue by clicking star this issue .

  • Support for issues with other apps: Contact the app developer directly.

Known issues

Based on our testing, you might encounter the following issues when using the Wear OS 5 Developer Preview. These issues are already known, so there's no need to file additional reports for similar issues.

System known issues

  • In order for users to grant the Alarms & reminders special app access to an app, developers must invoke an intent in their apps that includes the ACTION_REQUEST_SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM action, sending users to the app access screen. Users cannot access this screen in any other way.
  • Accessing the Play Store fails at the "To add a Google Account to your watch, copy it from your phone" step. A workaround is to close the wearable companion app (on your phone) and try again.