The Pixel Watch could take a few cues from the Galaxy Watch 4

What you want to understand

• 9to5Google came upon a connection with Smart Unlock in the newest Google Play Services Beta.
• It would aid you free up your phone together with your Pixel Watch, very similar to Samsung’s Smart Lock device with the Galaxy Watch 4.
• It would paintings via the “Google Pixel Watch app” slightly than the Wear OS app.

At CES 2022, Google promised to carry Smart Lock to Wear OS 3 watches, so that you could stay your Android phone unlocked on every occasion you might be within reach whilst dressed in your Android smartwatch. Now, now we have observed the first trace that it could arrive quickly — best no longer via the Wear OS app.

Looking via the code of the Google Play Services Beta model 22.22, 9to5Google (opens in new tab) discovered a connection with a Smart Unlock Settings web page. Once enabled, “When your watch is unlocked, for your wrist, and on the subject of your phone, it is going to free up this phone.” You can then upload your watch.

Curiously, the web page description additionally mentions that to sync your watch, you will have to “attach it in your phone with the Pixel Watch app.”

It’s additionally no longer assured that this option will likely be to be had when the Pixel Watch launches q4, as Google options steadily take months from once they first seem in APK shape.

However, this leak brings up a number of curious attractions. It’s the first connection with a Pixel Watch app, which means the Google Pixel Watch will use it as a substitute of the Wear OS app to sync in your Android phone. That, in flip, suggests the Pixel Watch could obtain some unique options that do not seem in the Wear OS app, along with Smart Unlock.

For context, maximum Wear OS watches depend on Google’s Wear OS app, whilst the Galaxy Watch 4 makes use of its personal Galaxy Wearable app and recently helps a identical Smart Lock function to stay your phone unlocked whilst it is within reach. 

By the use of its personal app, Samsung is in a position to stay its Galaxy Watch 4 a lot more distinct than inventory Wear OS watches that depend extra on Google.

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Google will most probably carry Smart Unlock to Wear OS 3 watches sooner or later — it is going to simply come to the Pixel Watch first, if this leak is correct.

What’s extra essential is that through the use of its personal Pixel Watch app, Google can push different unique options like Fitbit tool or Material You UI to its personal watch first, then carry them to the inventory Wear OS app down the line. This spells excellent issues for Pixel Watch house owners, however no longer such a lot for Fossil or Mobvoi house owners who’ve been ready since closing May for Wear OS 3 options.