The big reveal, however (or as big as it can be before we get a proper look at I/O next week), was that Wear OS 6 will see the addition of Gemini features, even to wearables outside of Google's own offerings like the best Samsung watches.

The OnePlus Watch 3 vies to be the best Wear OS smartwatch around, combining great performance and design with incredible battery life.

While Material 3 Expressive is not coming to Wear OS 6 until later this year, Google is already updating Tiles with the new design language.

A teardown of the settings APK from thge One UI Watch 8 leak has shed light on an upcoming Wear OS 6 feature called Raise to Talk.