Hi, there was a similar warning. I added the phrase “does not support square watches” to the description and it was approved. I didn’t get any warning after that.
i have really failed to understand google’s rejections and how they deal and send us incomplete messages to fix the issue.
encrypted strange creepy messages. I have a strange warning on one watchface description saying “Your play description doesnt mention Wear OS”
now what science is that
About the above icon issue im not facing this issue on any watchface. but the above one. I also have removed all square watches from my play console long time back. perhaps you guys have oppo watches added in devices ?
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Hi. But did you receive it just like that, for a random app? Or you were updating one of the apps and it was part of the rejection? Did you see deadline 31 Aug?
This warning stays there even after watch face approval, that’s why I think it’s something different.
Ah yes, this 31 august warning appears to me as well. I think it has to do with the target sdk. I’ll have to update them all by that date.
I’m not sure. Even WFS 1.3.13 created watch faces have targetSDK which is OK for the new requirements.
This message here is still referring to the Icon, at least for me (check Policy status email)
Yes, I checked now. TRUE. We will need to carefully review any new policy changes.
See this guide for publishing wear os items on Play Store
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Thank you very much 
Hello everyone,
Since I haven’t had the slightest time to take care of Watch Faces in the last few months (actually not even now), the problems are now piling up.
- I can no longer create a new topic here in the forum (I wanted to because I couldn’t find a current topic for the following problem - so I’m posting it here)
- I now obviously need to update all my watch faces so that they meet the new Google guidelines. But now I’m constantly getting rejections from Google:
“Issue found: Wear screenshots
Your app listing on Google Play store does not comply with the requirements. For more information, see Add preview assets to showcase your app.
Your watch face app must have more than one of the available permutations Wear screenshots if it is customizable.”
Question: What is a “permutation”?
Can someone tell me what to do now?
This is the WearOS screenshot of one of the many affected watch faces:
Edit: This watch face is called TSD21 and can change colors when you move your wrist. But it can’t have anything to do with that because all of my watch faces now seem to be affected.
I"m working on this and expect it to be fixed this week. Until then you have to create a new topic inf the Forum Home and set the Watch Face Studio for the category.
Question: What is a “permutation”?
A way in which things can be arranged. In this case in the store it could be a square image, round image oval image etc.
I believe they are referring to this Guide for Icon resources
The icons have to be a set size and I believe they have to be rectangle and can’t be circular and can’t be layered .jpeg not png (Or I have that backwards)
But then Play Store writes the rejections so strange I could be wrong.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Hi Ron. Thank you for your quick response. Yes, it is indeed strange. Until now, Google wanted the WearOS screenshot to be exactly the same. It is a jpeg, has no background and no text or anything. Apparently that is no longer right. Just what is right?
They changed it earlier this year there were you can search this forum if you don’t find it reply and I’ll see if I can get it for you.
Ron
Hi. ich antworte dir mal schnell auf deutsch…geht für mich schneller und besser. 
Die beziehen sich auf die Vorschaugrafik Icon. Das gleiche Problem hatte ich auch und ich hab lange gebraucht um herauszufinden was sie von mir wollten.
Erstelle eine Grafik in Photoshop mit den Maßen 512x512. Färbe den Hintergrund schwarz ein oder die Farbe die am besten zu Deiner Grafik passt. Füge die WF Grafik ein und lade diese dann hoch. Du solltest keine Probleme mehr haben.
Hier ein Beispiel wie ich sie einreiche. Ich hatte das gleiche Problem mit dem Vorschaubild Icon.
Im Playstore sieht es dann so aus:
Hi und danke dir erst mal für die Antwort. Genau das habe ich gemacht. Das Icon ist genau 512x512px groß und hat einen weißen Hintergrund. Das ist der Screenshot vom WSF in Photoshop auf die o.g. Größe gebracht und in jpeg umgewandelt.
Aber irgendetwas - und ich habe keine Ahnung was - wollen die Spezis von Google im Wear-OS Bild umgeändert haben. Auch da habe ich bisher immer den Screenshot vom WFS genommen. Wenn ich das richtig verstehe, soll ich jetzt wohl mehrere Bilder einfügen, wenn das Watch Face konfigurierbar ist. Wollen die jetzt für jedes einzelne Szenario ein eigenes Bild?
Hier:
Your watch face app must have more than one of the available permutations Wear screenshots if it is customizable
Das ist eine gute Frage. Versuch es doch einfach mal mit den zusätzlichen Bildern. Vieleicht ist es ja das was sie wollen.
Ich hab manchmal so das Gefühl, dass Google mit allen Mitteln versucht uns WF Designern Steine in den Weg zu legen, versucht WF aus den Store zu verbannen mit immer mehr neuen Regeln und Richtlinien. Ich mache das ganze schon seit 2018 und ich habe noch nie so viele Änderungen und Gängelungen erlebt. Klar Samsung hat damals unter Tizen auch immer mal was neues eingeführt und seine Richtlinien verbessert/aktualisiert, aber was Google da macht… Ich hab, seit dem Samsung zu WearOS gewechselt ist, nicht einen Monat erlebt wo es keine Schwierigkeiten mit Google gab. Samsung hat wenigstens uns Entwicklern aufgezeigt anhand von Fotos und Videos wo es Probleme bei den Watchfaces gab, aber Google scheint es sich einen Spass daraus zu machen uns im Dunkeln zu lassen mit irgendwelchen nichts sagenden Texten.
Meine Hoffnung ist es, dass endlich etwas passiert und wir Designer endlich das machen können was uns Spass macht…Watchfaces zu erstellen.
Sorry to everyone that I wrote in German, but my English is not so good to show all my frustration
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I guess they expect your preview images to depict more than one of the various looks the face can have when customized.
@SGWatchDesign
Ja, ganz deiner Meinung. Man verbringt mittlerweile mehr Zeit damit die Anforderungen von Google zu erfüllen, als neue WF zu kreieren. Dafür fehlt mir echt die Zeit. Das ist mehr oder weniger ein Hobby und Google macht daraus einen Aufstand, als ob wir hier Atome spalten. Wie auch immer: Ich versuche heute Abend mal das mit den zusätzlichen Bildern. Ich habe aber das Gefühl, dass das einfach reine Willkür seitens Google ist. Manche WF haben die gestern durchgewunken, bei anderen, ähnlichen habe die mir eine Ablehnung geschickt. Bei einem analogen WF z.B. kritisierten die, dass die Zeiger nicht austauschbar wären (obwohl sie das definitiv sind - ich habe es extra nochmal auf meine Uhr geladen).
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@Peter
Thanks Peter. I’ll try that this evening. Apparently this is a new policy from Google. Still, I’m surprised; Google has released some similar watch faces, but not others. I believe this is purely arbitrary on Google’s part, as the guidelines don’t say that I have to upload multiple images for WearOS. I can, but I don’t have to. But as I said: I’ll try with several screenshots and see what happens.
Sometimes I have impression like the testers would adapt the rules according to a momentary feeling or whim. As if to test peoples devotion and persistence to point, where only those “business worthy” prevail and the DIYers and hobbyists give up. At least with me it worked. After I read how much more complicated it became to even push new face on your own watch, I do not care so much anymore. I will try to keep my old Tizen watch alive as long as possible to avoid this mess and resume tinkering faces for fun on middleman’s platform for ease of use.
In the beginning it was nice to get little change as reward, not just praise, but I never planed to make living of it. And that maybe was my problem. Not enough devotion.
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Since I believe that very few developers can make a living from this, in the near future there will hardly be any innovative watch faces appearing in the Play Store. When I think about the fact that I have to partially redesign 52 Watch Faces + 52 Companion Apps, and they are then regularly rejected by Google, then I’m glad that I don’t do that full-time. Constantly new guidelines, constantly tinkering with the operating system - nope, I don’t have time for that.
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