Galaxy Wearable App’s Biggest Redesign Yet Leaked — AI Tiles, New Heal

Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app has always been the slightly awkward sibling to its hardware — functional, but rarely something you’d call a pleasure to use. That looks set to change. A new leak, first reported by SammyGuru, points to the biggest redesign the Galaxy Wearable app has ever seen, bundled alongside the upcoming One UI 9 Watch update. And this time, it’s not just a coat of paint.

• The Galaxy Wearable app is getting a complete visual overhaul with a new three-tab layout and smarter home screen in One UI 9 Watch.
• Galaxy AI is set to play a much bigger role in the Galaxy Wearable app, with AI-generated Tiles and a raise-to-talk Gemini shortcut reportedly incoming.
• New health features include Daily Cardio Load, overnight Vitals tracking, and Sound Exposure monitoring for long-term wellness awareness.
• Outdoor and ultra-specific tools — trail running, waypoint saving, and auto-launch dive tracking — suggest Samsung is serious about rugged use cases.

A Galaxy Wearable App That Finally Looks the Part

The most immediately obvious change is visual. Samsung appears to be ditching the flat, dark interface that’s defined the Galaxy Wearable app for years in favour of soft blue and purple gradients, floating card layouts, and a design language that finally feels consistent with the broader One UI aesthetic. It’s the kind of refresh that makes you wonder why it took this long — One UI on phones has looked polished for a while now, and the companion app has always lagged behind.

More meaningfully, Samsung has restructured the whole Galaxy Wearable app into three clear sections: Watch Faces, Home, and Settings. That reorganisation alone should reduce the amount of tapping around required to find anything. If you’ve ever opened the Galaxy Wearable app looking for notification settings and found yourself three menus deep wondering how you got there, this will feel like a genuine quality-of-life improvement.

The new Home tab deserves particular attention. Rather than dumping you straight into a settings list, it now greets you with a large visual of your connected Galaxy Watch, its current battery level, and an estimated time remaining before you need to charge. Shortcuts for the things people actually adjust — notifications, quick settings, Tiles, and installed apps — sit front and centre. It’s a small structural shift, but it reflects a better understanding of why people actually open the Galaxy Wearable app in the first place.

Smarter Watch Faces and Cleaner Settings

The watch face browser is also getting a meaningful upgrade. Instead of flat, cropped previews, the redesigned Galaxy Wearable app now shows the full watch with your chosen face applied. That sounds minor until you’ve spent time trying to judge whether a particular face suits your specific Galaxy Watch model from a tiny thumbnail. Seeing it rendered on the actual device shape — whether that’s the Watch 7, the Watch Ultra, or whatever Samsung announces next — makes the whole browsing experience far more practical.

The Settings section gets a tidier treatment too, with simpler monochrome icons replacing the more cluttered visuals of previous versions. Frequently accessed options like Find My Watch and the user guide have been bumped up toward the top of the menu — a small but sensible move. The About Watch and Software Update pages have had visual touch-ups as well, bringing them in line with the rest of the refresh.

Galaxy AI Is Coming to Your Wrist in a Big Way

The visual overhaul is the easy part to talk about. What’s potentially more significant is what the leak reveals about Samsung’s Galaxy AI ambitions for the watch platform.

The most intriguing feature buried in the build is AI-generated Tiles. Right now, customising watch Tiles through the Galaxy Wearable app — the small widgets you swipe through on your Galaxy Watch face — is a manual process. You pick what you want, arrange them yourself, and hope the result is useful. The new system would let Galaxy AI do that work for you. Ask it to build a Tile around what you care about, and it could assemble something that combines today’s weather, your favourite team’s live score, breaking news headlines, and your daily step count into a single glanceable view. That’s the kind of contextual, personalised experience that wearables have been promising for years but rarely delivered well.

There’s also a reported raise-to-talk shortcut for Gemini. Rather than holding down a button every time you want to interact with Google’s AI assistant, the watch would start listening automatically when you raise your wrist. It’s a natural evolution — you raise your wrist to check the time anyway, so extending that gesture to trigger a voice query feels intuitive. Asking ‘Will it rain this evening?’ or ‘Set a timer for 15 minutes’ without pressing anything is the kind of frictionless interaction that could actually change how often people use AI on their wrist, rather than just occasionally.

Health Tracking Gets Substantially Deeper

One UI 9 Watch also looks set to bring a meaningful expansion of health features to Galaxy Watch owners — not just incremental tweaks, but genuinely new tracking capabilities. Much of this will be configured and monitored directly through the Galaxy Wearable app.

Daily Cardio Load is one of the highlights. The feature appears designed to tell you not just what you did yesterday, but how hard you should push today based on your recent workout history and overall fitness trajectory. It’s the kind of adaptive training intelligence that apps like Garmin Connect and Whoop have offered for a while, and Samsung bringing it natively to Galaxy Watch would help close that gap for users who take their training seriously.

Vitals tracking would monitor overnight changes in heart rate, breathing rate, and skin temperature — building a picture of how your body recovers while you sleep. Spotting meaningful deviations over time, rather than just checking numbers in isolation, is what separates genuinely useful health monitoring from data that looks impressive but doesn’t change your behaviour.

Sound Exposure is perhaps the most socially relevant addition. The feature would track cumulative noise exposure throughout the day — accounting for commutes, concerts, loud workplaces, or simply listening to music at high volume through earbuds. Hearing damage is one of those health issues people tend not to think about until it’s already happening. Having a wearable gently flag when you’re regularly pushing safe thresholds could nudge real behavioural change in a way that a one-off warning never does. Apple’s Apple Watch has offered sound level monitoring for a few years now, so Samsung moving into this territory makes sense — though the focus on cumulative daily exposure rather than just live decibel readings suggests Samsung’s implementation could be more actionable.

Ultra-Exclusive Features Push the Rugged Category Further

A separate cluster of features in the leak appears specifically targeted at Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra line — the company’s answer to the Apple Watch Ultra, aimed at outdoor enthusiasts and serious athletes.

These include dedicated trail-running tools with elevation tracking, waypoint saving and route-retracing for hikers, and dive-related features that can apparently trigger automatically once the watch reaches a preset depth. Users will manage and configure these tools through the Galaxy Wearable app, and Samsung hasn’t confirmed whether they will remain Ultra exclusives — but the specificity of the outdoor use cases makes it a reasonable assumption. Differentiating the Ultra through software, not just hardware, is a smart approach — it gives buyers a stronger reason to spend more, beyond just a bigger battery and titanium casing.

The leak also notes that the build still contains placeholder graphics and references to much older software versions, which suggests Samsung is still polishing everything before a public release. Nothing here should be treated as final. But the breadth of what’s reportedly in development — across design, AI, health, and outdoor use cases — paints a picture of a company treating its watch platform with a new level of seriousness.

The Galaxy Wearable app has spent years as an afterthought. If even half of what’s leaked here makes it into the final One UI 9 Watch release, that’s no longer the case. The real question is whether Samsung can ship the Galaxy Wearable app cleanly — because a smarter, more capable companion app only matters if it actually works as advertised from day one.

Source: Android Authority

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