I swear I saw it in a review somewhere. Must have been mistaken.
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It’s been mentioned before that only watches that come with Wear OS 5 pre installed are affected. If you upgrade from Wear OS4 then the faces will still work. Though I expect they won’t if you factory reset.
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Do you mean if you Reset an Out the Box Update ?
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So, for a real world case: I got a GW6 with 4 out of the box and upgraded it before doing anything else. All good across the board, including Facer.
Still could not get it to ADB wireless pair so Factory Reset. All still good (apart from the pairing), including Facer.
If it comes out of the box with 4 it will always be good unless the rules change again. Pretty certain that will not happen as the backlash for breaking things that previously worked could result in class action for all of the people who paid for Facer faces under WearOs4
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See reply below from @rob.fsk It looks like a factory reset won’t cause an issue.
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I have GW4 Classic and GW5 Pro . Both updated to WOS5 . I can sync Facer and WFS stuff fine . My GW5 did a factory reset un invited before the update . I am just a bit upset as I lost 69 as my IP Address .
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Hi guys,
Sorry for my outdated question, but is Facer already compatible with the Ultra version? If not, is there still a possibility or has it already been decided that it cannot be applied to the Ultra version?
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By all accounts the Ultra is still not compatible . But Gw4 and up are Updated to WOS5 now so we are missing nothing . It will be sorted . But like the other updates there was no notice it just started happening . @mrantisocialguy is the man with a GW Ultra and the Brain to run it properly .
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Reading above the Ultra and GW7 come with WearOs 5 OoB so Facer is currently incompatible.
Last read is that the Facer team are working hard towards a resolution but there is not yet a final conclusion as to whether this will be possible without a massive overhaul of how Facer works.
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Unfortunately it’s not.
But there is always hope it will be solved some day
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I am wondering if there will end up being a 3rd new watch option WearOS 5+ in Facer.
If things end up down the new rules rabbit hole at least we know we will have no trouble finding the required number of testers here.
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That seems like the only option but I bet they would have to be big changes amongst the creator partners. Would the partners all have to go out and get their own Play accounts? That’ll be fun for them 
. What do you do about the revenue sharing model? Also, does Google eat another 15% on every sale? It’s a nightmare to be sure.
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I can’t see a move by facer to Play store will introduce any new tags much the opposite probably - it will be a retrograde step. So this means for me that currently Facer is better and I will not bother worrying about Play. My learning curve is so long and the existing standards so high that I will be happy with zFacer as it is now for a long time yet. Providing of course they don’t drop it altogether!
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