After years of anticipation, Google has finally unveiled its very own wearable: the Pixel Watch. The smartwatch comes with a round always-on display, built-in speaker and microphone, NFC, built-in GPS, compass, and a bunch of health sensors including an optical heart rate sensor, blood oxygen sensor, and a multi-function electrical sensor. The Pixel Watch runs Wear OS 3.5, an operating system that many will be familiar with from most non-Apple smartwatches.
Can you connect a Google Pixel Watch to your iPhone?
If you’re already impressed and want to buy one, you might be wondering if the Pixel Watch will work with your iPhone. That’s exactly what we’ll try to explain in this post.
Unfortunately, the answer is no. On the Pixel Watch help page, Google makes it clear that iOS devices are not supported for connecting to the Pixel Watch. Google has gone the Apple route of limiting the Pixel Watch's compatibility to only phones running Android, similar to how Apple Watches can only be paired with an iPhone.
To set up a Pixel Watch, you’ll need an Android phone running Android 8.0 or later. This means that not only can you use your Pixel Watch with newer Android phones, but older ones as well. Since the current line of Android phones run Android 13, you could essentially pair your Pixel Watch with an Android device that came out 3-4 years earlier.
