Google killed Slides companion app for Wear OS
Google has quietly killed the Google Slide app for Wear OS. Launched back in 2016, the Google Slides companion app served as a remote for your presentation, allowing you to move forward or back through slides right from your wrist. But it appears the app is gone from the Google Play Store. According to 9to5Google (via Android Police ), Google Slides has been quietly removed from the wearable Play Store’s “Apps on your phone” section. Google has a bad reputation for killing perfectly functional apps for no apparent reason, but in the case of Google Slides, the writing has been on the wall for some time now. As 9to5Google points out, the app hadn’t received a significant update for years and it was likely built using the legacy, non-standalone method. In addition, there were also reports of the app becoming buggy and crashing constantly on newer Wear OS watches. If you own a Galaxy Watch 4 or Galaxy Watch 4 ...