You can now control your Pixel Buds settings from PC, but there’s a catch

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• Google is now offering the Pixel Buds companion app on macOS and Windows as a PWA.
• The app lets users adjust the active noise cancelation, update the firmware, control the equalizer, toggle touch input, and more.
• Prior to this expansion, the web application was exclusive to Chromebooks, while Android phones offer a native app.

Last year, Google launched a Pixel Buds companion app on ChromeOS, allowing Chromebook users to adjust the wireless earbuds‘ settings without an Android phone. The company is now expanding the web app’s availability to include newer versions of macOS and Windows. This spares desktop users from needing to rely on ChromeOS or Android to update the earbuds’ firmware or tweak their options.

As spotted by 9to5Google, mypixelbuds.google.com is now available on macOS Sonoma 14, Windows 11, and newer OS versions. Notably, the progressive web app (PWA) is incompatible with Apple’s Safari on macOS and requires using the Chrome web browser.




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