{"id":921041,"date":"2026-10-08T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921041\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:56:08","slug":"older-pixel-watches-are-losing-free-cellular-access-to-several-safety-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921041\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googlepixelwatch\/thread\/471984501\/end-of-support-for-safety-signal-on-google-pixel-watch-is-going-away?hl=en&amp;sjid=8579891661136975315-NC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced through a short community post today<\/a> that the LTE versions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23910570\/google-pixel-watch-2-review-fitbit-safety-check-battery-stress-tracking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel Watch 2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/24239115\/google-pixel-watch-3-review-smartwatch-wear-os-wearable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3<\/a> are losing free access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23933351\/pixel-watch-2-safety-check-safety-signal-how-to\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Safety Signal<\/a> that allowed features like Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety Check to work through cellular networks without the need for a carrier plan. The connectivity was included as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/925458\/google-health-fitbit-air-ai-coaching-wearables-fitness-trackers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Health Premium<\/a> subscription, but after December 12th the free access will end requiring users to pay for a mobile plan to continue to use Safety Signal on an LTE network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Existing users with free access will be notified through notifications and an email. The Safety Signal features will still be available without a mobile plan during a 30-day transition period starting when the email is sent, but access ends after the mid-December cutoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The various emergency features that Safety Signal covered will continue to work afterwards on the Pixel Watch 2 and 3 without a mobile plan, but only while the watch is connected to Wi-Fi or paired to a smartphone over Bluetooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google announced through a short community post today that the LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,63,213,113,10893,44,1996,105,221],"class_list":["post-921041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}