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Kaitlyn Cimino \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
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Last month, Google announced its latest wave of upgrades coming to the company\u2019s hardware. The March Pixel Drop<\/a> included a bunch of new features not just for the Pixel smartphones, but also a handful targeted at the company\u2019s wearables. Alongside new features like Pixel Watch loss-of-pulse detection<\/a>, we heard about some improvements to the smartwatch media playback experience that were on their way. Well, they may have taken a little longer than you\u2019d think to get here, but those new media controls are finally starting to arrive.<\/p>\n As the very last feature it talked about when announcing the March Pixel Drop, Google told us to look forward to getting the ability to \u201cmanage your favorite audio content with new actions on Pixel Watch to fast forward and rewind, adjust playback speed or control playback queue.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, seven weeks later, 9to5Google<\/a> has spotted these rich media controls beginning to show up for Pixel Watch models.<\/p>\n For apps that support these interactions, in addition to the existing playback, track advance, and volume controls, you\u2019ll now find new options like being able to access your playlist, like tracks, change shuffle settings, jump forwards and backwards, and adjust playback speed \u2014 just as promised. Not all apps work with all of these controls, understandably, and you\u2019ll have to tap through with the overflow button to access some of them.<\/p>\n It\u2019s probably going to take us a little to get used to having all these new playback controls available right on our wrists, but we can\u2019t wait to start playing around with them. Being able to easily access a playlist from our Pixel Watch sounds just perfect for summer hangs, paired with with a nice Bluetooth speaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n