The diet ends with support for older versions of Wear OS

New system Wear OS 3 presented Google months ago, but it can only be used by owners of the Samsung Galaxy Watch4. It will freeze even more that some applications will only support this version of the system. According to the portal AndroidPolice this also applies to the popular fitness application Diet.

What is the popularity of the Diet app?

Diet is one of the most popular fitness applications for measuring running, cycling and other sports activities. In addition to recording the route on the map, it also offers information on distance, time, average speed, calories burned or climbs. A plus of the application is also the support of a number of heart rate sensors, whose measurement records are also displayed among other information.

If the Diet stands out from the competition, it is socialization. The app has a bulletin board where you can see your friends’ recent activities. These should motivate you to move more actively or play sports. There is also the opportunity to join one of the virtual clubs. Club members can overtake in the mileage table and motivate each other with their activity.

New version of Watch Only on Watch with Wear OS 3

However, users of the Watch app that use the older Wear OS 2.x system will not be pleased with the new update. Respectively, they will not install it at all. Strava Inc., which is behind the application, has decided to support only Wear OS 3 in future updates. An older version of the application will continue to be available for the older system.

Last week we released a new Diet app for Wear OS 3.0. In the future, we will not release new updates to our application for Wear OS 2.x, but the original Diet will continue to be available and will continue to work on Wear OS 2.x. However, all new updates will be made in the Diet for Wear OS 3.0 application.

Strava Inc.

Of course, this would not be a problem if the only watches with Wear OS 3 on the market were not the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic. Even the 6th generation of Fossil watches introduced yesterday uses an old version of the system. Of course, all watches on the market that are powered by the Snapdragon Wear 4100 chipset should be updated to Wear OS 3, but according to Google, this will not happen until 2022.

The reason could be the exclusivity of the system for Samsung watches, which were developed in cooperation with Google. At the same time, Diet is not the only application whose update requires a new version of the system. Similarly, there are three new versions of Google Maps and YouTube Music that require Wear OS 3 and cannot be ported to an older version or unofficially ported.