Google's False Alarm on Pixel Watch 1 Health Sync Sparks User Panic Over Legacy Device Support

Google's False Alarm on Pixel Watch 1 Health Sync Sparks User Panic Over Legacy Device Support

Owners of the original Google Pixel Watch received a jolt this week. An alert in the Google Health app warned them their four-year-old wearable ran an older version of Wear OS. It would soon stop syncing sleep and workout data. The message urged an immediate update. But that update doesn’t exist for the first-generation model. The scare spread quickly on Reddit and X. Users who bought the device back in 2022 wondered if their investment had reac…

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When Google announced the Pixel Watch 5 on August 12, one of the new features it announced alongside it was the Breathing Emergency Detection feature. It isn’t available in the US yet as it still needs to be approved by the FDA, but it is available in the UK and will be coming to the US later on, with expansion elsewhere at some point too. Breathing Emergency Detection is a lot like the Loss of Pulse Detection and the Fall Detection that are alr…