Pixel Watch 5: Proactive assistance and advanced health tracking on your wrist

Last year, Pixel Watch 4 set a new standard for our smartwatches with its iconic design, long lasting ultra-fast charging battery, and on-wrist Gemini capabilities. Today, Pixel Watch 5 builds upon this foundation to change what a smartwatch can do, delivering our most proactive help and health experience yet. It’s designed for Gemini Intelligence, advanced fitness features with Google Health, and breakthrough new Health Guardian features. ^{1 2 3}

Helpfulness at a glance

Pixel Watch 5 works silently in the background so you can stay present in the moments that matter most. At the center of this experience is “At a Glance,” which brings dynamic, context-aware updates directly to your watch face right when you need them. “At a Glance” ensures critical information is always right at hand — like surfacing live boarding passes as you step into the airport or showing remaining stops on your morning commute.

Interacting with your watch is even faster and more fluid thanks to major enhancements to Raise to Talk, our most popular way to interact with Gemini. ⁴ Simply lift your wrist to engage Gemini to launch a workout, set a timer, or pull up dinner reservations straight from Gmail. Powered by on-device AI, core actions now process instantly with low latency, even when you’re completely offline.

Building on that foundation, Gemini Intelligence Proactive Suggestions turns complex, multi-step tasks into seamless one-tap actions. ² If a loved one asks when is the dinner with family, Gemini automatically locates the info in your calendar and surfaces it directly on your wrist, eliminating the need to dig through your phone.

To make taking action effortless while staying in the moment, intuitive one-handed gestures work hand-in-hand with these proactive suggestions. When a timely proactive suggestion surfaces, you can select, confirm and send with a simple double pinch gesture, keeping your interactions fast and hands-free.

All of this helpfulness is driven by powerful new hardware under the hood. Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon® W5 Gen 2 Accelerated processor and a power-efficient dual-chip architecture, Pixel Watch 5 packs 50% more RAM and a 12% CPU boost — making it 20% faster so every proactive insight and action feels instant. ⁵

Advanced health and fitness, enhanced with Google Health Coach

Precision remains our cornerstone, and Pixel Watch 5 delivers our most accurate GPS route tracking yet — offering 2x greater accuracy compared to previous generations in the toughest environments. ⁵ Whether you’re running through dense high-rises or navigating covered trails, your watch delivers pinpoint location tracking even in the most challenging environments.

We leveraged the advanced technology behind Google Maps to trace satellite ray paths through 3D building models. Pixel Watch 5 also taps into a global network of weather reference stations in real time, adjusting satellite readings to account for local atmospheric conditions as they happen.

This combination of 3D environmental modeling, AI driven optimizations, and atmospheric corrections elevates route precision to a whole new tier. Pixel Watch 5 has our most accurate GPS route tracking for exercise, outperforming Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Garmin Fenix 8 Pro. ⁶

We know fitness goes far beyond cardio. Building strength is essential for long-term health, but structuring balanced workouts and staying on track during a session can be challenging. Coming soon, our new on-wrist Strength Training workout experience brings step-by-step guidance directly to your wrist, helping you move through sets and rest periods while making it easy to log your weights and reps on the go. ⁷

Google Health Coach also creates customized strength workouts tailored to your goals. You can also build and customize your own strength routines directly in the Google Health app. Beyond workout planning, Google Health Coach translates recovery metrics like your sleep and heart rate variability into adaptive recommendations — such as swapping an intense run for indoor yoga during an afternoon heat wave. ⁸

When it's time to recharge, Pixel Watch 5 and Google Health Coach elevate sleep tracking with 15% more accurate sleep stage detection, bedtime automations that automatically pause audiobooks when you drift off, and a dedicated bedtime watch face. ^{9 10} When morning comes, Smart Wake ensures you wake up feeling refreshed. By monitoring your heart rate and movement during the 30 minutes leading up to your alarm, Smart Wake identifies optimal moments of lighter sleep to gently wake you before your set alarm time. ¹¹

Take steps to improve wellness with Health Guardian features and more

Health Guardian features ⁷ can catch subtle shifts in your health and wellness before they escalate into bigger issuesPixel Watch 5 builds on crucial, potentially life-saving features like Loss of Pulse Detection and satellite communications by introducing an industry-first feature to the wrist: Breathing Emergency Detection. ^{12 13 14 15} Powered by multimodal sensors — including PPG, accelerometer, and barometer — alongside on-device AI, Pixel Watch 5 continuously monitors for severe, persistent drops in oxygen saturation that can result from drug toxicity accidents, severe pneumonia, or choking. If a breathing emergency is detected and you are unresponsive, your watch can automatically call emergency services and transmit your exact location (launching first in Europe).

While emergency response is critical, taking steps toward improving your health is also about seeing the full picture, catching quiet, invisible trends before they become emergencies. Joining established capabilities in the Google Health app like irregular heart rate notifications, high and low heart rate alerts, and ECG, we're introducing three additional groundbreaking Health Guardian features. ^{11 16}

Built on state-of-the-art Health Foundation Models trained on billions of minutes of sensor data from opted-in users and rigorously validated against gold-standard clinical measurements, these models power three new monthly trend summaries: blood pressure trends, sleep breathing quality trends, and insulin resistance trends. ^{7 17 18 19 7} Rolling out soon — with your first detailed summary arriving after one month of wear — these reports illuminate metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular shifts early, giving you clear insights to help you take control of your long-term health. Plus, monthly summaries will soon be available across our wearable portfolio, including the new Google Fitbit Air. ²⁰

By bringing together proactive Gemini Intelligence, our most precise GPS engineering, personalized strength coaching with step by step directions (coming soon), and innovative Health Guardian features, Pixel Watch 5 delivers the insights, safety, and speed you need, right when you need them most. ^{2 3}

Iconic design and fresh colors

Here are even more details about the new Pixel Watch 5:

• A stunning 3,000-nit domed Actua 360 Display.
• 11 new glanceable complications styles.
• Two new stunning watch faces.
• Brand new generative watch faces to emulate your personal style. ²¹
• Up to 30 hours of battery life on the 41mm (40 hours on the 45mm) with fast charging. ^{22 23}
• Industry-leading repairable architecture. ²¹
• New color options including Fog, Canyon (41mm exclusive), and Olive with all-new Pyrite housing.
• Ultra-comfortable HNBR brands. ²⁴
• A Stephen Curry Special Edition (45mm) that features an exclusive sweat-wicking performance loop band, taking style from the court to an evening out.

Pixel Watch 5 is available for pre-order starting August 12 and will be on shelves August 20, starting at $399 (41mm) and $429 (45mm). The Stephen Curry Special Edition pre-orders start August 12 for $579, arriving on-shelf September 3.