If you are used to some oldie but goldie watch face on your Samsung Galaxy, you might not be able to install it on the Watch 7, and would have to pick something else to tide you over until the developer eventually updates it.
This lack of Wear OS 5.0 support only goes for watch screen content, which is not designed with the new Watch Face Format (WFF) that Google introduced last year. It is an XML-based developer platform that makes it easy to create watch faces, add new features, or maintain them consistently over different Wear OS iterations.
In addition, backing up all the settings and content of your old watch for a transfer to, say, a Galaxy Watch 7 or Watch 7 Ultra, won’t restore your old layouts if they are incompatible with Google’s current Watch Face Format.
It is still not clear how many developers will bother or have made the effort to go back and re-code their home screens in the new Watch Face Format, though, so if you are rocking an old watch face, be warned that you might be unable to run it on the Galaxy Watch 7 and might have to be accustomed to a new screen layout.
