The Pixel Buds Pro no longer let you ‘touch and hold’ to hear notifications

Google is taking distant a Pixel Buds Pro diagnostic that lets users interaction and clasp an earbud to perceive unread notifications. In an update connected Tuesday, Google confirmed that Assistant “will no longer read unread notifications erstwhile utilizing the press Assistant feature.”

Additionally, Google says Assistant volition halt automatically alerting you to unread notifications connected the Pixel Buds, nor volition it fto you reply. Instead, Google says you tin perceive notifications by activating Assistant and saying “Read my notifications.”

The “touch and hold” motion connected the Pixel Buds Pro presently lets wearers power betwixt progressive sound cancelation and Transparency mode by default. Before this change, users could configure this motion to person Assistant work notifications aloud.

Last week, Pixel Buds Pro users noticed that they weren’t able to usage the “touch and hold” to perceive their notifications, but Google didn’t corroborate that it’s removing the diagnostic until now.

The change, which Google says it’s making based connected idiosyncratic feedback, comes astir a week earlier the merchandise of the Pixel Buds Pro 2. It seems similar much tweaks are to come, arsenic Google says it volition “evaluate further changes to notifications.”