OnePlus says the OnePlus Watch 2 and 3 will get three years of OS and security updates. However, the company's promised timeline creates more confusion than it answers. The company seems to be counting the Wear OS build the watch is launching with as one OS update.

To begin with the latter announcement, OnePlus has essentially confirmed that OnePlus Watch 2 owners will get Wear OS 5 fully one year after it launched on leading models from Samsung and Galaxy. Just to rub it in, Wear OS 6 will likely debut in the meantime.

OnePlus has confirmed a couple of less-than-ideal details about its update strategy for the Watch 2 and Watch 3.

OnePlus will roll out the Watch 2's Wear OS 5 update in Q3 this year. This would be almost a year after Google officially released Wear OS 5. The OnePlus Watch 3 will receive one fewer year of security patches than its predecessor.

More pertinently, OnePlus also says the Watch 2 and Watch 3 will get three years of software updates, but crucially not three versions of Wear OS. As such, OnePlus Watch 2 users can also expect a Wear OS 6 upgrade next year, while owners of the new OnePlus Watch 3 will get support all the way through Wear OS 7 in 2027.

We were concerned when OnePlus told us that the Watch 3 would only get two years of support. Now it seems to have been a misunderstanding.

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