{"id":64934,"date":"2025-10-08T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:42:10","slug":"pixel-watch-4-1-update-adds-new-icon-more-m3-expressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64934\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Watch 4.1 update adds new icon, more M3 Expressive\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pixel-watch-4-glass-4.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google already refreshed the Pixel Watch app on Android phones with <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/08\/google-material-3-expressive-redesign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some M3 Expressive<\/a> earlier this month, but the latest update brings more tweaks and a new homescreen icon.<\/p>\n<p>Update 10\/7: Version 4.1.0.810754319 of the companion app has <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.wear.companion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">widely rolled out<\/a> ahead of the Pixel Watch 4 hitting store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Original 9\/24: Previously, there was a generic representation of a watch in the four Google colors of blue, red, yellow, and green. It felt a bit busy, and wasn\u2019t the nicest Google icon. (For comparison, the Pixel Buds companion app is quite good.)<\/p>\n<p>This new icon\u2019s drawing is much more photorealistic, and gets the curves of the case, crown, and even the band. The hour and minute hands at the center are pill-shaped and in the Material 3 style.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Old vs. new<\/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=\"\" data-height=\"940\" data-id=\"690226\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=690226\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Pixel-Watch-icon-old.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-icon-old.jpg\" 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=\"\" data-height=\"767\" data-id=\"690225\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=690225\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Pixel-Watch-M3-Expressive-icon-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Pixel-Watch-M3-Expressive-icon-1.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The color palette is blue and purple, thus matching the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/09\/22\/google-clock-wear-os-m3-expressive-icons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alarm, Timer, and Stopwatch<\/a> app icon updates earlier this week. In general, Pixel apps are blue in color, and this shift from the general Google scheme feels telling from a branding perspective. The new Pixel Watch icon very much is in the family of the My Pixel app.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, version 4.1 of the Pixel Watch app also introduces a story-esque carousel at the top of main feed that guides you through features like Fitbit, Personal Safety, Gemini, and Wallet. It\u2019s a good introduction, while the Material 3 Expressive stylings are fun.<\/p>\n<p>The Pixel Watch app\u2019s second-level menus have also been updated with M3 Expressive today. Each line is placed in a container for nice visual separation and grouping, with the Tiles screen also getting this treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Pixel Watch 4.1 is rolling out <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.google.android.apps.wear.companion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via the Play Store<\/a>.<\/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\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757354947_724_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\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757354948_194_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":"Google already refreshed the Pixel Watch app on Android phones with some M3 Expressive earlier this month, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[356,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-64934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}