Abstract
- The Pixel Watch’s April 2025 replace ought to repair bugs comparable to delayed notifications and syncing points with Fitbit.
- It doesn’t bump the safety patch to April 2025.
- Google is bringing the Pixel 9’s Rip-off Detection function to the Pixel Watch 2/3 within the US to detect potential scammers throughout telephone calls.
The March 2025 replace for the Pixel Watch launched a number of new options and enhancements, together with bumping the OS to Put on OS 5.1. Nevertheless it additionally turned out to be fairly buggy, with customers complaining of delayed notifications, syncing issues with the Fitbit app, and extra. Google rapidly acknowledged the issue and confirmed it could deal with it as quickly as potential. Now, the corporate is rolling out the April 2025 replace for the Pixel Watch to presumably repair all of the reported points.
Given the slight variation in construct numbers — BP1A.250305.019.W3 vs. BP1A.250305.019.W7 — the replace possible contains solely minor bug fixes and little else. It doesn’t even bump the safety patch to April 2025, together with your Pixel Watch remaining on the March 2025 patch.
Google has not printed official launch notes for the Pixel Watch’s newest replace. Nevertheless it ought to hopefully deal with all the issues that the March 2025 construct launched.
You may obtain the Pixel Watch’s newest replace straight away by navigating to Settings > System > System updates and repeatedly tapping the “Your watch is updated” display.
Rip-off Detection involves the Pixel Watch
In a separate publish on the Google help boards, Google introduced it’s bringing in-call Rip-off Detection to the Pixel Watch. The function went stay on the Pixels with the March 2025 Function Drop and makes use of AI to detect and safeguard you from scams whereas on a name. With Rip-off Detection coming to the Pixel Watch, you gained’t want to tug out your Pixel telephone to search out out should you’re chatting with a scammer.
You may hear a beep firstly of the decision and periodically all through. If Google detects you are talking with a possible scammer, your watch will notify you with a sound, vibration, and on-screen alert.
Rip-off Detection is offered on the Pixel Watch 2/3 within the US when paired with a Pixel 9. The function additionally solely works over Bluetooth, as it’s the paired Pixel telephone that does the heavy lifting for rip-off detection after which sends a notification to the watch. So, should you instantly take a name over LTE in your Pixel Watch, Rip-off Detection will not work.