{"id":379610,"date":"2025-12-31T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379610\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:21:11","slug":"a-galaxy-watch-4-variant-received-two-updates-on-the-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379610\/","title":{"rendered":"A Galaxy Watch 4 variant received two updates on the same day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over four years since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-watch-4-classic-price-release-date\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launch<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/samsung\/galaxy-watch-4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Watch 4<\/a> series, and most users were doubtful if it would get the One UI 8 Watch update. However, Samsung surprised everyone by confirming that it would. Last week, the update was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-watch-4-pending-one-ui-8-watch-update-goes-global\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> for the Bluetooth-only variants of the Galaxy Watch 4 40mm and the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic&#8217;s 42mm and 46mm variants.\n<\/p>\n<p>The company excluded the 44mm version of the Galaxy Watch 4 and the LTE variants of both models in some Asian countries.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Samsung released two back-to-back updates for the 44mm Bluetooth-only version of the Galaxy Watch 4 in India. The first update (firmware version\u00a0IYI4) brought the August 2025 security patch to the wearable, and it had a file size of around 142MB. The second update (firmware version\u00a0JYK4) brought the Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch update and had a 1.7GB file size.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you have the Bluetooth-only version of the Galaxy Watch 4 and live in India, you can check for the update on your smartwatch by heading to\u00a0Settings\u00a0&gt;\u00a0Software update\u00a0and tapping\u00a0Download and install. Once the update has been downloaded, you can start the installation process by tapping the\u00a0Install now\u00a0button.\n<\/p>\n<p>The One UI 8 Watch update rollout has been problematic for the Galaxy Watch 4 series. Several Galaxy Watch 4 Classic users are reporting that their smartwatches are either feeling very sluggish or their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/galaxy-watch-4-classic-one-ui-8-watch-update-may-be-breaking-the-wearable\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sensors aren&#8217;t working properly<\/a>. Some Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic users have complained about higher battery drain after updating their devices.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Samsung will fix those issues with a future software update. Going forward, Samsung will not release major One UI updates for the Galaxy Watch 4 series.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"google-preferred-news-source-cta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/add-sammobile-as-a-preferred-source-on-google-to-always-get-the-latest-news\/\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"google-preferred-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark.png\" alt=\"Google Preferred News Source\" style=\"max-width: 50%; height: auto;\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been over four years since the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series, and most users&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161874,49,48,195,7756,1799,13844,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-379610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-august-2025-security-patch","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-galaxy-watch-4","13":"tag-india","14":"tag-one-ui-8-watch","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}