Alongside Android 17, Google is rolling out Wear OS 7 to the Pixel Watch today.

Your smartwatch is truly an indispensable all-day wearable. More than half of Wear OS users wear their watch seven days a week — and the most active wear it over 23 hours each day.*

*Data for Wear OS 6 device from Aug. 2025 – April. 2026. Most active users are the top 10% of all Wear OS 6 users by wear time.

Wear OS 7 features “deep, system-level power optimizations” that result in up to 10% improvement in battery life compared to Wear OS 6.

Live Updates are now supported on Wear OS. They let you track ongoing events like sports scores, workout progress, and deliveries. You will see a persistent icon at the bottom of your watch face and a card at the top of the notifications feed. Tapping provides the real-time status and other details that appear on phones.

System media controls now feature an integrated output switcher. This lets you “control what’s playing on your headphones, home speakers and more, and switch audio from one device to another.”

When listening to media on a paired phone, users can effortlessly switch the device the media is played back on directly from their wrist.

Overall, Google says Wear OS 7 is “built to work better with your connected devices.” This includes audio glasses coming in the fall. When you take a photo, the capture appears on your wrist for quick review.

Google also today highlighted upcoming Gemini Intelligence features that “select” Wear OS 7 devices will get later this year.

As previously announced, Create My Widget lets you make “custom dashboards” for your wrist. Wear OS 7 renames Tiles to Widgets, with the creation experience happening on your device.

Multi-step app automation will let Gemini navigate “tasks directly from your watch.” The Gemini app on Wear OS 7 will tap into Personal Intelligence and get a Neural Expressive redesign. Gemini will get an overlay like on phones that can appear on the watch face, complete with transcription, instead of opening a new screen.