Chalk this up to \u201coops, we did it again.\u201d Second time\u2019s the charm, right? After breaking a key feature of the Pixel Watch, Pixel Watch 2, and Pixel Watch 3 in a March update and then not fixing it in a subsequent April update, Google has finally fixed its step counter.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve got a Pixel Watch and you\u2019ve been patting yourself on the back these last few weeks about how good you\u2019ve been at getting in your daily steps, well, I\u2019ve got bad news for you.<\/p>\n
Google busted the step-counting feature in a pair of previous updates from earlier April and in March, and it\u2019s been over-inflating step counts. So, those days you hit 10,000 steps? Yeah, you probably didn\u2019t really. It was just your Pixel Watch getting a little step-happy.<\/p>\n
a break, and then a fix<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s March update<\/a> seems to have been what broke the Pixel Watch\u2019s step counter, after which it began counting steps inaccurately. The issue affected all three generations of the Pixel Watch, including the Pixel Watch 3 that launched in September 2024 and currently occupies Google\u2019s lineup as its flagship smartwatch.<\/p>\n \u201cFor those users on the\u00a0March<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0initial April release<\/a>\u00a0version: Resolves an issue where some reported receiving a step count in certain scenarios that was higher than expected, by reverting the step algorithm enhancements to the original step algorithm for all users,\u201d Google wrote on its release notes<\/a> for the most current software update, the second April update.<\/p>\n This second update, unlike the March and earlier April updates, doesn\u2019t seem to include any further issues, such as security features or bug fixes. It\u2019s solely there to correct the step-counting issue, according to Google\u2019s release notes. Better late than never. Although you may have a little more work to do on reaching those 10,000 steps now that your Pixel Watch is back to counting them accurately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chalk this up to \u201coops, we did it again.\u201d Second time\u2019s the charm, right? After breaking a key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,867,868,3317,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-45740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-smartwatch","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114391198817501530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45740","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=45740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}