{"id":642194,"date":"2026-06-16T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642194\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:46:08","slug":"google-launches-wear-os-7-with-live-updates-and-a-battery-life-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/642194\/","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Wear OS 7 with Live Updates and a battery life boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Google\u2019s Wear OS 7 update is starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 , adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/934323\/google-wear-os-7-smartwatch-battery-life-wear-widgets-io-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Live Updates feature<\/a> that tracks live events from your Android smart watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/684601\/android-16-launch-live-updates-notifications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Updates<\/a> will now sync with Wear OS devices, so updates like sports scores or an ongoing meal delivery will show up on both your watch and your phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Wear OS 7 will also introduce some new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/928724\/gemini-intelligence-android-io-autofill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gemini Intelligence<\/a> features, but Google says these aren\u2019t launching until \u201clater this year.\u201d They\u2019ll include Create My Widget, which you can use to generate custom Wear OS widgets using natural language prompts. Google says Gemini will also be able to handle multi-step app automation in Wear OS 7, such as making a reservation or placing a restaurant order from your watch. Wear OS 7 will update Gemini with Google\u2019s new \u201cneural expressive\u201d design and add support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861576\/google-gemini-ai-personal-intelligence-gmail-search-youtube-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Intelligence<\/a>, which pulls data from connected Google apps to inform suggestions from Gemini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Controlling media from your watch is also getting easier with a new output switcher, where you can move audio output from one connected device to another, like headphones or a Nest speaker. Google says smart glasses like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/933125\/android-xr-samsung-warby-parker-gentle-monster-project-aura-xreal-google-io-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the ones we saw at I\/O<\/a> last month will be able to connect to Wear OS 7 so you can preview photos taken with the glasses on your watch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Third-party app developers can also now add Wear OS Widgets that should be easier for them to develop and more dynamic than the custom Tiles that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/5\/1\/18525335\/google-wear-os-tiles-widgets-new-feature-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in 2019<\/a>. For devices that don\u2019t get the update, Google says apps <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/training\/wearables\/widgets\/migration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can continue to support Tiles<\/a> too, or the widgets will be displayed as a full-screen tile on Wear OS 4, 5, and 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Lastly but not least, Google\u2019s Emergency Sharing feature can also now automatically call your selected list of emergency contacts in addition to emergency services if your Pixel Watch detects a fall, loss of pulse, or a car crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Wear OS 7 update is starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[786,844,2305,50,227,86,56,54,55,1148],"class_list":["post-642194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}