Mobvoi commits to ‘essential’ TicWatch updates as the Wear OS lineup seems dead

The Mobvoi TicWatch series has produced some memorable Wear OS smartwatches, both in terms of value and hardware advancements, but the company seems to have thrown in the towel altogether.

Mobvoi has been producing smartwatches for the better part of a decade, with the company’s first US release being 2017’s TicWatch 2, which was based on its own Android-rooted platform. It didn’t take long for the company to adopt Android Wear and, later, go all-in on Wear OS. 2018’s TicWatch Pro was where the company really made a name for itself with a special dual-layer display that pushed the smartwatch to have multi-day battery life, and stuck around as a continually offered feature on later models.

Over the past 7 years, Mobvoi has released well over a dozen separate TicWatch devices powered by Wear OS.

While the company developed a great reputation for its value and hardware, that reputation was continually soured by very slow software updates. It took around a year for Wear OS 3 to arrive on any TicWatch devices, and more recently, the company has been silent regarding Wear OS 6, having been pretty quiet overall around Wear OS 5’s release as well, much to its customers’ frustration.

The last TicWatch release from Mobvoi was over a year ago, with the TicWatch Atlas. That watch was a respectable upgrade powered by Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1, but it continued the lack of timely software updates too.

Now, Mobvoi appears to have largely given up, or at least completely shifted its focus away from Wear OS watches.

All TicWatch models have vanished from Amazon search and listings are “currently unavailable.” Far more telling is that Mobvoi has stripped most presence of TicWatch from its website. The “Products” navigation menu only shows treadmills and the TicNote AI recorder. The TicWatch Atlas and TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro are both seen on a featured slider on the homepage, but both listings are “not available at the moment,” leaving no way to purchase the smartwatches.

We’ve reached out to Mobvoi for more information, but given the absolute silence about new TicWatch products over the past 12 months, the removal of the website listings, and the removal of Amazon listings, it certainly seems like Mobvoi’s time in Wear OS has come to an end.

In response, Mobvoi said to 9to5Google that “we don’t have new information to announce about the TicWatch lineup” but that “existing devices will continue to receive essential support.” The door certainly isn’t closed, but again, the writing is on the wall.

This leaves Wear OS losing another name that propped up the platform for years prior to the 2021 reboot that came with the Pixel Watch and Galaxy Watch 4. Fossil was the other name that stood alongside Mobvoi, but the company shuttered its smartwatch efforts entirely in 2024. Tag Heuer also ditched Wear OS earlier this year for its own OS for the sake of iOS compatibility.

Remaining Wear OS brands include Google Pixel, Samsung, OnePlus, as well as Xiaomi and Oppo in some international regions.