Wear all day and night
From the inside out, Pixel Watch 2 is designed for all-day (and night) wear. Its housing is made from 100% recycled aluminum which makes it 10% lighter than Pixel Watch3 — so it’s even more comfortable, especially when you’re sleeping. The crown is also larger and more flush with the circular silhouette for easier access and navigation.
Inside, Pixel Watch 2 has an all-new, quad-core CPU for smoother and stronger performance. Together with the low-power co-processor, the new CPU gives the watch 24 hours of battery life, even with always-on display.4
5 Combined with a faster charging rate that powers your watch to 50% in just 30 minutes,6 your Pixel Watch 2 can support your activities from day to night.
Uncover more accurate health insights
Pixel Watch 2 has three new sensors to give you deeper insights into your health. Working alongside our improved AI heart rate algorithm, an all-new heart rate sensor with numerous LEDs produces a more accurate heart rate reading than ever before.7 In fact, it’s up to 40% more accurate for vigorous activities like HIIT, spinning and rowing.8 This means you’ll also get more accurate readings for other important health metrics — from calories burned and Active Zone Minutes to Daily Readiness Score and sleep.
We’ve also brought Fitbit’s Body Response feature to Pixel Watch 2, powered by a new continuous electrodermal activity (cEDA) sensor. This new sensor can point to possible signs of stress using a machine learning algorithm that incorporates heart rate, heart rate variability and skin temperature. When the algorithm picks up on physical indicators of positive and negative stress, including excitement, the Body Response feature will send you a notification. It will then prompt you to either reflect on how you feel at that moment or take actions to reduce your stress, like guided breathing or a mindfulness session. Reflecting on these moments may help you identify patterns to anticipate potential stress and plan ahead.
And once you’re ready to turn in, our new skin temperature sensor tracks at night to reveal insights into your sleep and monitor for changes in your overall wellness.9
You can get other important health and fitness information using just your voice. Open the Google Assistant app and simply ask “How did I sleep last night?” to get your daily Sleep Score or weekly average, or ask to start a workout.10 With the new Google Assistant tile, you can even set up shortcuts for your most-used queries.
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Set up new safety features
When it comes to personal safety, Pixel Watch 2 can help give you more peace of mind. In addition to fall detection and Emergency SOS,11 12
first introduced on Pixel Watch, Pixel Watch 2 comes with Pixel’s proactive safety features like Medical ID, Emergency Sharing and Safety Check. These features can help you get assistance13 14 even if you don’t have your phone with you.
Safety Check helps ensure your loved ones know what you’re up to, from a late-night walk to an early morning run. To start a Safety Check, open the Personal Safety app on your watch, choose an activity and set a timer for when you expect to arrive at your destination. Then, select up to 15 emergency contacts to send a text to, alerting them that you’ve started a Safety Check for a particular activity. If you can’t check in once the timer is up, your emergency contacts will get another text letting them know and sharing your current location on Google Maps. That way, your loved ones have the information they need to get in touch with you or emergency services.14
You can also display Medical Info on your watch when it’s locked, or share it with participating emergency responders during a call to indicate important medical information like allergies, blood type and pre-existing conditions. As an extra precaution, you can add the Medical ID Tag to your band so emergency services know there’s important information to check on your watch.
For LTE-enabled Pixel Watch 2 users (with Fitbit Premium), Safety Signal allows you to use features like Safety Check and Emergency Location Sharing even if you’re not connected to a carrier yet.
Get your app ready for Wear OS 4
Wear OS 4 is based on Android 13, which is several versions newer than the current Wear OS version, so your app will need to handle the system behavior changes that take effect in Android 12 and Android 13.
Read the developer documentation to discover key behavior changes and learn how to interact with new features. We recommend you start by testing your app and releasing a compatible update. So that you’re ready when the first devices get upgraded to Wear OS 4. This gives your app a basic but critical level of quality that provides a good experience for users.
Wear OS 4 emulator
Today we’ve also released updated system images for Wear OS emulators. Available starting in Android Studio Hedgehog to help test your apps on Wear OS 4.
The new Wear OS 4 emulator doesn’t support native 32-bit code. So if your app uses native code, make sure that it includes both 32-bit and 64-bit native libraries. This will also prepare your app for upcoming 64-bit only hardware.
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Learn more
To begin developing apps for Wear OS, try our Compose for Wear OS codelab. And check out the documentation and samples.
Discover even more! View the Wear OS session from Google I/O, and read about the latest Jetpack releases for Wear OS.
There’s never been a better time to get your app ready for Wear OS 4 and all the latest Wear OS watches. We can’t wait to see your apps on Wear OS 4 and what experiences you’ll build!