Google enriches Pixel Watch with advanced multimedia controls

After the first advances released last month, Google finally gave concreteness to the promises announced in the novelty package of March 2025, users in possession of a Pixel Watch (specifically the most recent Pixel Watch 3 updated to Wear OS 5.1) can now benefit from a decidedly more complete and interactive listening experience thanks to the New advanced multimedia controls.

Google brings a much richer audio content management to the pixels watch

Until recently, the multimedia checks integrated in the Operating System of the Google smartwatch were limited to the classic basic functions: reproduction/pause, backward skip back and volume regulation, with the addition of information relating to the reproduction content on the smartphone.

However, as often happens with the Google ecosystem, things have changed quickly and the company has kept the word given with the update promised at the beginning of March; As officially declared, the goal was that of simplify the management of audio content directly from the clockintroducing more contextual and specific checks based on the type of content reproduced (for example, differentiating between music and podcasts on YouTube Music).

With the new update of the Wear Media (version 1.6.7.x), available via the Play Store directly from the clock, they appear now New buttons and enriched interfaces; in particular:

• It is possible view the tail of the songs In reproduction on YouTube Music, just touch the appropriate button on the left to access the next 24 songs, selectable to start the reproduction immediately
• A new button with the three dots (located on the right) allows you to quickly activate the Shuffle Playback (shuffle), put I like (thumb up) to the songs or Activate repetition of the song
• Another convenient pill is also present to access directly to the “Up Next”, Useful for browsing quickly among the coming content

As for the podcastalways on YouTube Music, the possibility of change the reproduction speedgradually increasing it with each touch, in addition to Quick management of the next or previous episode.

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However, it is important to report a crucial aspect, Not all applications support these new advanced features at the moment; For example, some third -party players such as Pocket Casts do not show the new checks, in these cases the advanced actions remain deactivated and we return to the basic commands.

The functionality has been tested on Pixel Watch 3 with Wear OS 5.1, but it should progressively reach the previous models, as always it will be essential to check that the media app is updated to the latest version available on the Play Store of the Clock, a necessary condition for the activation of the new checks.

In short, an expected and very welcome update, which shows how Google is working to make the Wear OS platform more autonomous and powerful. However, users will have to patient a little more to see a wider adoption from third -party apps.