The Galaxy Watch4 and the Galaxy Watch4 Classic are the latest smartwatches from Samsung. Unlike their predecessors, these wearables run a new version of Wear OS co-developed by Google, Samsung, and Fitbit. Though the latest software comes with improvements, there are some caveats with compatibility.

When the Galaxy Watch4 series went official, we learned that these smartwatches cannot be paired with iOS devices. Last night, Samsung announced these wearables in China and confirmed that they don’t support HarmonyOS either.

This means the Galaxy Watch4 and the Galaxy Watch4 Classic can be only used with Android devices as of now. The minimum requirements set by Samsung are Android 6.0 or above with more than 1.5GB RAM.

That’s not all, many features of these wearables only work with Samsung smartphones running Android 10 or above. Additionally, some features are limited to certain regions.

When Google announced the new Wear OS 3.0 at Google I/O 2021, the tech community got excited. Because the search giant’s wearable operating system needed changes due to its long list of issues.

As one of the leading Android OEMs, Samsung partnered with Google to merge its Tizen with Wear OS as the South Korean tech giant’s operating system had its own problem of third-party app support.

But unfortunately, though the main concerns of these two platforms got fixed, the end product (Galaxy Watch4 series) comes with a new set of complications like the above-discussed compatibility issues and lack of popular apps like Google Assistant.

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