{"id":72694,"date":"2025-10-10T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72694\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:03:08","slug":"pixel-watch-getting-aod-media-controls-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/72694\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Watch getting AOD Media Controls later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1350\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wear-OS-6-AOD-media-controls.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Wear OS 6 on the Pixel Watch 4, 3, and 2 does not support always-on display Media Controls, but that is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>With Wear OS 6, the \u201cprevious top activity remains visible and in the \u2018resumed\u2019 state when the device enters system ambient mode.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/29\/wear-os-6-aod\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The example<\/a> Google provided was how the \u201ccurrent song and media controls remain visible even when the user isn\u2019t interacting with the Wear OS device.\u201d At the left (above), we see the redesigned Material 3 Expressive Media Controls that went live on the Pixel Watch 4, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/10\/08\/pixel-watch-wear-os-6-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wear OS 6 update<\/a> for the Pixel Watch 2 and 3.\u00a0(The other tweak Google made was adding a music note icon for the complication and at the bottom of your watch face.)<\/p>\n<p>On the right, the background artwork fades into a black background, with the various buttons becoming faint outlines and the time at the top of your screen. This is like Google Maps navigation and Google Keep notes.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>This is not yet live on any device, with Google telling us this week that the Media Controls update is targeting later this year for Pixel Watch. That presumably means it will be available on all of Google\u2019s Wear OS 6 devices. In terms of timing, the next quarterly Pixel Watch update should be in December.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, it\u2019s the same behavior as before with the entire Media Controls \u2018app\u2019 blurring and the time appearing overlaid at the center.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"Pixel Watch media controls\" data-height=\"426\" data-id=\"692017\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=692017\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-4-media-controls-2.png?w=426\" data-width=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-4-media-controls-2.png\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"Pixel Watch media controls\" data-height=\"426\" data-id=\"692016\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=692016\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-4-media-controls-1.png?w=426\" data-width=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-4-media-controls-1.png\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Google is looking to address how switching accounts on your phone\u2019s Gemini app (like between personal and work) will require you to set up Gemini on your watch again. This process annoyingly requires going to your phone.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the moment, Wear OS 6 on the Pixel Watch 4, 3, and 2 does not support always-on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[203,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-72694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}