OnePlus Watch 2 will get a a lot wanted knowledge migration characteristic

The OnePlus Watch 2 is a nice smartwatch, but it surely isn’t good. We’ve highlighted a couple of shortcomings of the gadget in our OnePlus Watch 2 evaluate, and there are some extra that customers don’t like. As an illustration, if you don’t signal into the companion OHealth app and comply with cloud sync your knowledge, your well being and health knowledge can be misplaced if you swap telephones. OnePlus is now rolling out an replace to the OHealth app that brings this knowledge migration characteristic that will help you swap telephones with out dropping your well being knowledge collected with the OnePlus Watch 2.

OnePlus is rolling out an replace to the OHealth companion app that powers the OnePlus Watch 2. OHealth v4.21.5 doesn’t seem to have a verbose official changelog, however we are able to spot a number of modifications.

There’s a new “migrate knowledge” possibility in profile settings that permits you to migrate your exercise and well being knowledge to a different gadget. This characteristic requires the outdated and new telephones to be current on the identical Wi-Fi community, and you’ll need to scan a QR code to initialize the migration. When you’ve got signed into the OHealth app, it’s essential to signal into the identical account on each gadgets earlier than migrating knowledge.

This OHealth replace additionally allows you to toggle whether or not you wish to auto-launch media management settings in your OnePlus Watch 2 everytime you play media in your telephone. The app replace now allows you to toggle Elevate to Wake instantly from the companion app and set an auto-screen off-time. Beforehand, you might toggle Elevate to wake solely from the smartwatch.

There isn’t a replace to be put in on the OnePlus Watch 2 to obtain these options on the companion app. When you haven’t already acquired an replace to the OHealth app by the Play Retailer, you possibly can sideload the app replace to get these options.

We’re nonetheless awaiting extra options that make the OnePlus Watch 2 the most effective Put on OS smartwatches. Whereas the information migration characteristic is effectively acquired, you might already use cloud sync to maintain your knowledge intact throughout telephones, as I did. What the OnePlus Watch 2 wants is the flexibility to modify between telephones with out utterly resetting itself. This characteristic is seen on different Put on OS watches, and OnePlus continues to be late to this celebration. Hopefully, we’ll see this rollout quickly too.