New AI-powered gestures and Smart Reply updates for Pixel Watch

Pixel Watch 4 is the first of its kind to bring AI-powered, Gemini features to your wrist. Just in time for the holidays, we’re releasing two big updates:

1. More one-handed gestures

We launched gestures with Raise to Talk, which quickly became a favorite way to chat with Gemini. Now, we’re taking convenience to the next level with our new one-handed gestures: Double pinch and Wrist turn. You can now use various features without ever touching your screen: scroll through notifications, dismiss notifications, snooze your alarm effortlessly, manage a timer or stopwatch, pause your music, select a smart reply to respond, answer and end a phone call…the list of what you can do with one-handed gestures goes on and on. (Plus, helpful on-screen hints will pop up to let you know exactly when you can use a Double pinch.)

2. Enhanced Smart Replies

In a first for smartwatches, Pixel Watch 3 and newer watches will now use our on-device Gemma-based language model to generate Smart Replies for Google Messages and more even when you aren’t tethered to your phone. This new model is twice as fast and nearly three times more efficient in terms of memory usage compared to our previous generation.

With these new on-watch capabilities, you can still get things done when your hands are full and you’re on the go. Whether you’re walking the dog, carrying your holiday shopping, making cookies or wearing mittens — it’s as easy as looking, tapping and sending!

Check out our community blog post for more details on the updates.