The Pixel Buds Pro no longer let you ‘touch and hold’ to hear notifications

Google is taking distant a Pixel Buds Pro characteristic that lets users touch and clasp an earbud to perceive unread notifications. In an update connected Tuesday, Google confirmed that Assistant “will no longer read unread notifications erstwhile utilizing the press Assistant feature.”

Additionally, Google says Assistant will extremity automatically alerting you to unread notifications connected the Pixel Buds, nor will it fto you reply. Instead, Google says you tin perceive notifications by activating Assistant and saying “Read my notifications.”

The “touch and hold” motion connected the Pixel Buds Pro presently lets wearers move betwixt progressive sound cancelation and Transparency mode by default. Before this change, users could configure this motion to person Assistant publication notifications aloud.

Last week, Pixel Buds Pro users noticed that they weren’t able to usage the “touch and hold” to perceive their notifications, but Google didn’t corroborate that it’s removing the characteristic until now.

The change, which Google says it’s making based connected personification feedback, comes astir a week earlier the merchandise of the Pixel Buds Pro 2. It seems for illustration much tweaks are to come, arsenic Google says it will “evaluate further changes to notifications.”