It has been a few months since Google announced the Fall 2020 update for Wear OS devices. In fact, Google announced in August that ‘the next OTA update coming in the fall’, but it took another month before that update arrived. However, the update seemingly only arrived on the Suunto 7, leaving all other recent Wear OS devices on the older April 2020 update.

Unsurprisingly, post on forums like r/WearOS have been piling up with people asking where the Fall 2020 update is for their recent smartwatch. Google has finally gotten around to releasing the update more widely, as demonstrated by a mega-thread on r/WearOS. The Fall 2020 update arrives as Android 9 H MR2, although we found that our Fossil Gen 5 did not download it automatically. Instead, we manually checked for updates, were informed that the ‘System is up to date’, before the screen refreshed and the update started downloading.

So, it only took Google a further three months to distribute the not-so-appropriately called Fall 2020 update. Android 11 is coming to Wear OS at some point in 2021 too, with Google having decided to skip Android 10. Google has not published a full changelog for the Fall 2020 update, but this what we have gleaned from Android and Google support forums: