Wear OS 5.1 could let you play music on your built-in Android watch speakers

Google is testing retired media playback consecutive from Android smartwatches’ built-in speakers successful Wear OS 5.1, according to Android developer merchandise notes spotted by Mishaal Rahman. That’s successful summation to adding support for credential managers successful the coming update, which Google revealed is based connected Android 15. (Wear OS 5, which rolled retired earlier this month, is based connected Android 14.)

Watch speaker playback will activity for “devices that support media playback done the watch speaker,” Google writes, adding that users tin prime the built-in speaker for apps that see the capability. It’s not clear which devices that would mean.

Android smartwatches only play media complete Bluetooth correct now — thing that was existent of each Apple Watches until the Series 10 and Ultra 2. Pixel watch owners will person to hold a spot to get the capability, arsenic Google said earlier this period that the adjacent Pixel Watch package update is coming successful March adjacent year, arsenic noted by 9to5Google.

If you could swear you’ve listened to podcasts aliases euphony done your Pixel Watch successful the past, you whitethorn not beryllium wrong. Users successful the Pixel Watch subreddit claim they were capable to do it 2 years ago. That seemed to beryllium a bug that was later patched, which immoderate were a small miffed about, and you cognize what? I get it. I don’t precisely conifer for euphony from tinny smartwatch speakers, but I’d emotion to person the action to perceive to podcasts from my wrist erstwhile I can’t find my headphones.