new Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra is the most powerful and feature-rich smartwatch Samsung has ever produced. There have been many improvements across the board, but some have been lost along the way. Despite the numerous upgrades and improvements, you might be surprised to learn that the Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch Ultra do not support Wireless PowerShare.
The latter is one of the unique features Samsung has developed for smartphone and wearable users: Wireless PowerShare, a technology that turns your Galaxy smartphone into a wireless power bank, allowing you to charge other devices like the Galaxy Watch, earphones, and even Galaxy smartphones.
While PowerShare is far from the most efficient way to charge your device, it could, in theory, be useful in some situations, but Samsung says it had to drop wireless PowerShare on the new Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra to make way for other health-tracking improvements.
Wireless PowerShare is discontinued due to Bio-Active Sensor redesign
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch Redesigned bioactive sensor This improves the accuracy of health and fitness tracking and expands the range of parameters the new watch can track.
This progress came at a cost. Samsung Support page (via Jordi V27) announced today that its two new Galaxy Watches will have to drop support for Wireless PowerShare due to a redesigned BioActive sensor and back glass shape.
Its shape was designed to improve accuracy when using the health and fitness tracking features, but it conflicts with Wireless PowerShare and prevents it from working. As a result, Samsung has decided to drop support for Wireless PowerShare entirely on its new smartwatches.
While having Wireless PowerShare on a smartwatch may seem like a nice feature, in reality, for most users, it’s a quality-of-life feature they’ll never use – it can be useful in those awkward situations where you’ve forgotten your charging pack, but those situations are rare.
So while it’s disappointing to see the feature removed, the fact that the Galaxy Watch 7 and Watch Ultra don’t support Wireless PowerShare won’t be a huge loss for most smartwatch users — and it’s probably a worthwhile trade-off if it means more accurate and versatile health and fitness tracking.
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Interestingly, it wasn’t until 2022 that Samsung showed signs of not giving Wireless PowerShare much thought when designing its smartwatches: the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro supported Wireless PowerShare, but the shape of the wrist strap made it feel like an afterthought. The function was not workingWatch 5 Pro users had to remove the wrist strap before using PowerShare, and needless to say, not many people were willing to put up with that in order to use a relatively inefficient method of charging the battery.
