Google is killing its weather app for Pixel SmartWatches and replacing it with a new Pixel Weather app.
It will be a slow death for the original weather app, though.
Any watch running Wear OS 6—as well as any other OS moving forward—will no longer be able to download Google’s built-in weather app. If your smartwatch is running OS 5 or older, you can still download the app.
It’s possible that if you’re running OS 6 on your watch, you can continue to use the app, at least for now. But things get a little more complicated. Pixel watch owners running OS 6 and newer will eventually be migrated to the updated Pixel Weather app.
Google wrote in a blog post about the news : “If you have a Pixel watch with Wear OS 6 or later: Your watch will automatically ship (or be upgraded to) the new Pixel Weather app. You don’t need to do anything.”
Other Android smartwatch brands – Samsung, OnePlus, Mobvoi – running OS 6 or later can continue to use the weather app if it’s already installed.
So, regardless, you’ll be able to look at your wrist and see the prognosis. It might just look different moving forward.
