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Google announced new features for Pixel watch As part of the March Pixel Drop, which also includes updates for devices across the broader Android ecosystem and the Pixel portfolio. For Watch owners — with most features rolling out to the Pixel Watch 2 and later — the biggest additions focus on safety, convenience, and faster interactions.
Your Pixel Watch (2 or later) will tell you when you forget your phone.
One of the most notable features: The Pixel Watch will now send “back” alerts if you accidentally move away from your phone. It also automatically locks your phone when you move far enough out of range, adding an extra layer of protection for forgotten phones. When your watch and phone are linked and paired again, identity verifications will be faster, so you won’t need to authenticate twice (on both phone and watch). And with Find Hub now available on Pixel Watch and more Wear OS Watches, other misplaced gadgets have become easier to track down as well.
Google also offers Express Pay, which essentially eliminates the Wallet app as an intermediate step when paying, letting you simply turn your wrist and tap your watch to the terminal. You can already use a specific card without opening Wallet for transit payments, and Express Pay appears to extend that convenience to other purchases.
On the safety front, the Pixel Watch (2 or later) will now provide real-time alerts about nearby seismic activity and its magnitude, which could give you a heads-up a few seconds before the actual earthquake starts. Satellite SOS, which was first offered on the Pixel Watch 4 in the US mainland, is also being expanded to Hawaii and Alaska as well as Canada and several European countries. This feature allows people to contact emergency services when they are off the grid without a phone or cell reception.
Pixel Watch 3 owners can now silence a call, press the camera shutter, or pause a workout with a double tap or twist of your wrist.
Google also says the one-handed gestures that debuted on the Pixel Watch 4 are expanding to include pixel watch 3adding more ways to interact quickly without using both hands. This includes answering calls, silencing alarms, triggering the camera shutter, or pausing your workout with a double tap or twist of your wrist.
The new features will be available via software updates for compatible watches starting March 3.
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