Google has launched Wear OS 7 with Live Updates and battery life

Google Wear OS 7 updates are starting to roll out today for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4, and more new Live Updates feature which tracks live activity from your Android smart watch. Live Updates it now connects to Wear OS devices, so updates like your workout or meal progress show up on your watch and phone.

Wear OS 7 will also bring new features Gemini Intelligence devices, but Google says it won’t launch until “later this year.” They’ve included Create My Widget, which you can use to create widgets for Wear OS using natural language. Google says Gemini will also be able to use multi-step automation in Wear OS 7, such as making a reservation or ordering a restaurant on your watch. Wear OS 7 will update Gemini with Google’s new “neural expressive” design and add support Personal Intelligencewhich pulls data from connected Google apps to inform recommendations from Gemini.

Controlling broadcasts from your watch is also easier with the new switch, where you can move audio from one connected device to another, such as headphones or a Nest speaker. Google says smart glasses like which we saw at I/O last month they will be able to connect to Wear OS 7 to preview photos taken with the glasses on your watch.

Third-party developers can also add Wear OS Widgets that should be easier for them to create and more powerful than the built-in Tiles. was launched in 2019. For devices that are not updated, Google says apps can continue to support tiles Also, widgets will be displayed as full screen tiles on Wear OS 4, 5, and 6.

Finally, the Google Emergency Sharing feature can also call a list of people you choose in an emergency in addition to emergency services if your Pixel Watch detects a fall, collision, or car accident.