Huawei renovating Watch GT 5 series with HarmonyOS 5.1 update

Huawei Watch GT 5 users are finally welcoming the HarmonyOS 5.1 major upgrade. The new firmware is full of exciting features and capabilities for the flagship wearable. It also optimizes some existing functions for a more stable experience.

During the Pura 80 series event, Huawei announced to begin HarmonyOS 5.1 rollout in July. Looks like the company initiated the new version push with wearables.

Watch GT 5 series is getting the Huawei HarmonyOS 5.1 update with the 5.1.0.16 software version. Make sure to have sufficient storage, as this is an important upgrade and may weigh slightly a bit more than regular rollouts.

The company has added many new features to the Watch GT 5 series with HarmonyOS 5.1. Firstly, users will find various home screen features that will ease accessibility.

Besides, the update brings a new voice memo and Health Insights app to have a better track of your health. It also improved some previous features and system apps.

Take a look at the changelog given below.

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New Features: Home Screen

• Supports the new star ring home screen. You can easily switch the app names and large icons by sliding on the top. You can also freely switch between three home screen styles: star ring, chessboard, and list.
• New preset watch faces, easy to play with, and personalized watch faces.
• “Landscape Ink Realm” adopts Chinese-style design, and the fresh and elegant scroll is vividly displayed on the watch (go to Huawei Health app > Device > My Watch Face)
• The “universal module” can select the required functional components according to different scenarios, making the small dial full of infinite possibilities.
• “Fashion Outline”, “Chronograph,” and “Galaxy Numbers” perfectly combine fashion and practicality, making your watch face both beautiful and practical.

Other features

• Added a new voice memo for quick voice recording, capturing your inspiration anytime, anywhere.
• New Health Insights app to track changes in health trends such as sleep, heart health, stress, exercise, etc., providing you with comprehensive health analysis and personalized suggestions to continuously protect your health.
• The new sleep average HRV indicator monitoring helps you identify your physical fatigue and stress level, and you can see your sleep quality by raising your wrist.  At the same time, it monitors heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen, and other data during sleep, generates a sleep physiological indicator baseline, and gives timely health tips.

Optimizations

• The number of frequently used contacts synchronized has been expanded to 30 to meet more usage needs.
• Optimized the alarm creation process, and you can freely modify the alarm name while creating the alarm.
• Expanded the data display of dozens of sports, such as adding step count and ascending height data for stair climbing, adding step count, altitude, cumulative ascending and descending data for orienteering, and adding distance and speed data for Frisbee, football, roller skating, and other sports.
• It is convenient for you to identify the effect of a single exercise and contribute to systematic and scientific training
• Optimized the user experience of message and live window notifications, increased the types of message icons, and made the source of information clear at a glance.