How To Factory Reset Your Wear Os Smartwatch

Reset a Pixel Watch or other Wear OS watches

If you’re an Android user, Wear OS should feel like home. It carries a lot of UI traits from Android, including the settings options, making it easier to find things. Here’s where you can find the Reset option in your Wear OS smartwatch.

Reset a Samsung Galaxy Watch

Samsung’s One UI Watch is a tad bit different from the vanilla version of Wear OS. This means the option to reset Galaxy Watches is located at a different place. So, let’s go the process:

Reset a Wear OS Watch from Your Phone

Google and Samsung offer dedicated apps to control different aspects of your smartwatch from your phone. Google’s Pixel Watch app and Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app are the apps that you can use to manage your watch’s settings. These apps also allow you to reset your smartwatches directly from your phone. Using the Pixel Watch App Using the Galaxy Wearable App

Reset a Wear OS Watch Using Find My Device

If you’ve lost your Wear OS device, you can reset it using Google’s Find My Device network. Here’s how:
If you don’t want to factory reset your watch and simply wish to lock it because it has been stolen, you can use the Secure device option. It will lock the device with a PIN or password and sign out the Google Account on the smartwatch. Additionally, this can be used to add contact info in case someone finds the device.

Transfer Your Wear OS Watch Instead

With Wear OS 4.0, Google introduced a new feature called “Transfer watch,” allowing users to transfer the Watch data from one phone to another without resetting the watch. These are some of the ways you can factory reset or transfer a Wear OS smartwatch. What are your thoughts on Wear OS as a platform? Let us know in the comment section below.