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Android P Wear OS DP2 available now, rolls back controversial change
June 10, 2025
At the end of March,Googlereleased thedeveloper preview of Android P in Wear OS. Now, less than two months later,the company releasedthe second Android P Wear OS developer preview – and it rolls back a controversial change.
The primary focus of the newest version ofWear OSis to improve battery life on wearables like smartwatches. One of the ways the first developer preview accomplished this was to turn off Wi-Fi when a wearable is not connected to anything via Bluetooth.
Google’s likely assumption was that if your smartwatch isn’t connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth, that would mean it’s not in use. Google figured that automatically shutting off Wi-Fi would save some power and thus be beneficial to the user.
However, the developer community did not like this change and made their feedback on the issue very clear to Google. In response, this new developer preview rolls back that change, so Wi-Fi will not automatically shut off if the wearable is not connected to something via Bluetooth.
Other than that rollback, there are some new additions to Wear OS in this preview. The support for Actions is added (which is not an Android P feature andalready availableto Wear OS users), an enhanced battery saver mode, and support for ChineseSmart Replyfeatures.
All in all, it appears the most significant change of this version is the rollback of the auto-shut-off feature, with a few tweaks of already-existing elements thrown in.
You can give the new developer preview of Wear OS a try right now by clickinghere. You’ll need aHUAWEI Watch 2or HUAWEI Watch 2 Classic to flash the software.
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