{"id":527526,"date":"2026-03-16T21:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527526\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:20:09","slug":"google-rolling-out-modem-update-for-original-pixel-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527526\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rolling out modem update for original Pixel Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pixel-Watch-update.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Following the last release <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/10\/27\/pixel-watch-october-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in October<\/a>, Google is <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googlepixelwatch\/thread\/417704094\/pixel-watch-1-modem-software-update-march-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rolling out<\/a> a modem update for the original Pixel Watch released in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cadditional March 2026 software update\u201d just includes \u201cbug fixes to improve E911 Emergency dialing behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BW1A.260305.003 (from BW1A.251005.003.W1) remains Wear OS 5.1 based on Android 15. The original Pixel Watch will not get Wear OS 6+ having surpassed its three-year update guarantee. It will continue to receive app updates from the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, the OTA is not yet available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/android\/ota-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">factory images site <\/a>for manual install. Similarly, Google has yet to release the March 2026 update for LTE versions of the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>As always, this \u201crollout will continue over the coming weeks in phases depending on carrier and device.\u201d Go to Settings &gt; System &gt; System updates.<\/p>\n<p>More on Pixel Watch:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768288030_634_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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768288030_158_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":"Following the last release in October, Google is rolling out a modem update for the original Pixel Watch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[166,74],"class_list":["post-527526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}