Less frequent Pixel Watch updates could be a good thing after all

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Earlier this month, Google quietly confirmed that its three Pixel Watch models would see a significant delay before their next software updates. Specifically, the next scheduled update isn’t coming until March 2025 — roughly five months from the time of Google’s announcement. Naturally, many Pixel Watch, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Watch 3 users responded negatively to this news, as a lack of updates for several months means no new features and, more importantly, no security fixes.

An adverse reaction to this makes sense. After all, we discovered this schedule change as the Wear OS 5 rollout started up again for the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2 after a disastrous rollout attempt a few weeks prior. It is logical to assume that more updates would be better for Google’s best smartwatches, not fewer.




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