{"id":284448,"date":"2025-07-23T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284448\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T05:56:13","slug":"google-pixel-watchs-july-update-is-here-just-not-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284448\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pixel Watch\u2019s July update is here, just not for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/junes-pixel-drop-update-is-here-to-ring-in-android-16-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June Feature Drop<\/a>, Google rolled out several new features for the Pixel Watch lineup, including adding support for public transit payments and the ability to mark certain home controls as favorites for quick access. However, the company skipped pushing the firmware for Pixel Watch units in Japan and Singapore, saying &#8220;they will receive an update in the coming weeks.&#8221; Over a month later, the company is now pushing the July 2025 update to these units.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"dc-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/googles-pixel-watch-4-reportedly-embrace-repairability-at-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Pixel Watch 3 45mm model on a wrist\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/google-pixel-watch-3-45mm-on-wrist-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/google-pixel-watch-3-45mm-on-wrist-1.jpg\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Related<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/googles-pixel-watch-4-reportedly-embrace-repairability-at-last\/\" title=\"Google\u2019s Pixel Watch 4 will reportedly embrace repairability at last\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tGoogle\u2019s Pixel Watch 4 will reportedly embrace repairability at last<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">A repairable design!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the improvements introduced in the June 2025 update, the BW1A.250605.004.J2 build for the Pixel Watch in Japan and Singapore contains an important fix related to emergency calling, as highlighted by Google in its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googlepixelwatch\/thread\/359732630\/google-pixel-watch-update-for-japan-and-singapore-july-2025\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fix for emergency calling on cellular watches without cellular service provisioned<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        ECC now functions for SIMless Watch on BT tethered mode.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The June 2025 build tweaks how contactless Google Wallet payments work on the Pixel Watch, requiring users to unlock the watch before making a transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Note that despite releasing in July, the BW1A.250605.004.J2 build for the Pixel Watch contains the June 2025 security patch.<\/p>\n<p>Google says the update is rolling out beginning today and will continue &#8220;over the next couple of weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Japan or Singapore, you can manually pull the July 2025 firmware right away by navigating to <strong>Settings \u2192 System \u2192 System updates<\/strong> and repeatedly tapping the &#8220;Your watch is up to date&#8221; screen. Just make sure to put your watch on charge before following the above steps.<\/p>\n<p>                        Pixel Watch&#8217;s next big update will land in September<\/p>\n<p>Google switched to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/google-pixel-watchs-latest-update-brings-wear-os-5-1-android-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quarterly update cycle for the Pixel Watch lineup<\/a> with the Wear OS 5.1 and Android 15 firmware this March. It did roll out an update in April, fixing bugs from the initial Wear OS 5.1 build. This was followed by the June 2025 Feature Drop.<\/p>\n<p>The next major update for the Pixel Watch should land in September. Presumably, it will bring Wear OS 6 to Google&#8217;s existing smartwatches and more Material 3 Expressive design changes. Google has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/gemini-wear-os-starting-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed out Gemini<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/material-3-expressive-wear-os-google-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M3E-revamp of the Wear OS Phone app<\/a> to the Pixel Watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the June Feature Drop, Google rolled out several new features for the Pixel Watch lineup, including adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-284448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114901010685014655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}