Wear OS 5 and the Recorder app are rolling out to older Pixel Watches

If you person an archetypal Pixel Watch oregon Pixel Watch 2, bully news: Wear OS 5 volition statesman rolling retired contiguous and, with it, a fistful of caller features.

The astir absorbing 1 is the Recorder app. This was primitively introduced arsenic an exclusive to the Pixel Watch 3, and it lets you grounds audio straight from the wrist. You tin past unfastened it up — on with a transcript — connected your phone. (This diagnostic does, however, necessitate that you person a Pixel phone.) Other updates see improved Camera controls and a grid-view app launcher. The second is simply a neat astonishment — previously, you could lone presumption apps successful a database format, which could get tedious to navigate if you downloaded excessively many.

Wear OS 5 besides brings with it a fig of battery-saving improvements. When Google announced it astatine I/O earlier this year, the institution said that moving a marathon would devour astir 20 percent little artillery life.

Don’t interest if you don’t spot the update close away. While the rollout starts today, Google says it’ll proceed done the week successful phases, depending connected the bearer and device.