Pixel Watch owners get their first piece of November’s update straight away: a workout mode that walks you through each exercise on your wrist. It starts reaching Pixel Watch 3 and newer from 10 November, while four other additions are due in the next few weeks.
The workout feature shows the move you should be doing, lets you log reps and weights from the watch, and keeps live numbers on both the watch and the phone. It follows plans from the Google Health Coach or routines you build yourself in the Google Health app, and your stats appear in the app and on the watch when you finish. It needs a Google Health Premium subscription and an internet connection.
Google’s own announcement names Pixel Watch 3 and newer, and the Google Health app on the phone. 9to5Google’s breakdown of the whole drop adds the version numbers: Wear OS 7 or later on the watch, with Google Health 4.12 on the watch and 5.12 on an Android phone.
The slower items are bigger in spirit. Wear OS 7.1 brings notification summaries for Pixel Watch 3 and newer, which condense a pile of alerts or a busy group chat, but only when the watch is paired with a Pixel 9 (not the A-series) or newer. Create My Widget, which builds a custom information display, is limited to the Pixel Watch 4 and newer.
Phone-to-watch unlock lets a nearby phone open the watch, using ultra-wideband, so you skip the PIN or pattern; the watch must be on your wrist, and Pixel Watch 3 and newer qualify. The Pixel Watch 5 alone gets Gemini Call Screen, which replaces Manual Call Screen and filters incoming calls when you ask it to. It writes up key details of the call, in US English only for now.
These arrive alongside the phone side of the drop: the November Pixel Drop that put Rambler and AI-made widgets on the Pixel 10. Google gives no firm date for the four delayed features, only “the next few weeks”, so none is in this first wave, and Google lists no order for them.
