{"id":70478,"date":"2025-05-03T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70478\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:46:11","slug":"pixel-watch-touch-lock-now-locks-more-and-users-arent-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/70478\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Watch Touch Lock now locks more, and users aren\u2019t happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_oh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"Google Pixel Watch 3 Faces\"  alt=\"A user scrolls through their watch face options on the Google Pixel Watch 3.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Google-Pixel-Watch-3-Faces-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kaitlyn Cimino \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wear OS 5.1 changes Touch Lock on the Pixel Watch to disable the crown as well as the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Users can no longer scroll notifications or check Quick Settings while the feature is active.<\/li>\n<li>Google support reportedly called the change intentional, but there\u2019s no official confirmation yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Touch Lock used to be just a handy way to avoid accidental taps on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-pixel-watch-3-review-3478998\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixel Watch<\/a>, especially in wet environments. However, a recent update has kicked its functionality up a notch, and not every user is happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/04\/30\/pixel-watch-touch-lock-wear-os-5-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9to5Google<\/a>, Touch Lock\u2019s behavior has changed in Wear OS 5.1. Previously, enabling the setting disabled the touchscreen while still letting you use the rotating crown to scroll through notifications or access Quick Settings. With Wear OS 5.1, Touch Lock now disables both the screen and the crown.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still not clear if this is a deliberate move.<\/p>\n<p>This change means the only way to interact with the Pixel Watch while Touch Lock is active is to long-press the crown for two seconds to disable the feature altogether. You can no longer sneak a look at your notifications or battery percentage without turning the feature off first.<\/p>\n<p>The shift hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PixelWatch\/comments\/1kb58pi\/i_bought_the_pixel_watch_2_solely_because_i_could\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit thread<\/a>, one frustrated user said they bought the Pixel Watch 2 specifically because Touch Lock let them check notifications in the shower without accidental inputs. Others agreed, calling the change \u201creally frustrating\u201d and \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still not 100% clear whether this is a deliberate move or a bug. The Reddit user says Google support confirmed it was an intentional change, but Google hasn\u2019t updated the Touch Lock description or publicly clarified the situation. If unintended, a fix could arrive in the next scheduled Pixel Watch update, which is expected in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wear-os-5-1-pixel-watch-touch-lock-3549620\/mailto:news@androidauthority.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"mailto:tips@androidauthority.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-haspopup=\"menu\" target=\"_blank\">news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it&#8217;s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Cimino \/ Android Authority TL;DR Wear OS 5.1 changes Touch Lock on the Pixel Watch to disable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,867,18952,14342,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-70478","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-watch","11":"tag-google-wear-os","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114442560085633246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70478","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=70478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}