{"id":99847,"date":"2025-08-27T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/99847\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:35:07","slug":"latest-play-store-update-flags-power-hungry-watch-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/99847\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Play Store update flags power-hungry watch faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out a nifty update to the Play Store on Wear OS smartwatches that flags watch faces with high power consumption. With Play Store version 47.7, watch face listings now carry battery-efficiency warnings.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever selected a slick, animated face only to discover your Wear OS watch barely makes it through the day, then this update will be highly useful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756305307_243_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Latest Play Store update flags power-hungry watch faces\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These warnings specifically target faces loaded with heavy animations, dynamic data feeds, or frequent phone interactions. It\u2019s a thoughtful addition to Wear OS as it will help steer users toward more efficient choices.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the update is being released in batches so some users will receive it before others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/product-documentation\/answer\/14343500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is rolling out a nifty update to the Play Store on Wear OS smartwatches that flags watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,63,213,105],"class_list":["post-99847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}