By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2025-12-14 17:00:00
Google rolled out a major Pixel Watch update this week that, for Pixel Watch 4 owners, delivers support for new one-handed gestures. They’re super useful already, but do they measure up to the gestures Google introduced a decade ago?
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Rolling out in the December 2025 update for Pixel Watch 4, new “double pinch” and “wrist turn” gestures are available. These gestures, as Google explains, offer controls and interactions such as “scroll through notifications, dismiss notifications, snooze your alarm effortlessly, manage a timer or stopwatch, pause your music, select a smart reply to respond, answer and end a phone call,” and more.
It works rather well. Getting a long message notification no longer requires me to drop…
