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Wear OS 4 may finally allow you to switch phones without factory resetting your watch (www.gsmarena.com)

submitted 2 years ago by MHcharLEE to c/[email protected]

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[–] Devgard 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

its to ensure that if someone steals your watch, your data can't easily be accessed (eg. google wallet etc)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah okay that sounds actually reasonable. But why the reset? Also getting access by stealing a thing sounds like a huge security flaw to me (2FA and such).

[–] Devgard 1 points 2 years ago

idk why the reset was necessary, it's really annoying