By Ian Carlos Campbell
Publication Date: 2026-08-19 19:30:00
Worry not: Your first-generation Pixel Watch can still sync with Google Health. Following reports from some smartwatch owners on Reddit that Google Health was warning them that their Pixel Watch would no longer sync health data, Google has shared that the message was sent in error. Provided your Pixel Watch is running at least Wear OS 4, you can continue importing data to your heart’s content.
“To clear up the recent confusion: the Pixel Watch 1 remains fully supported,” Google Community Manager Stefanie Frederick shared in a post. “We had a bug where some users received this card incorrectly. Thanks for raising this, it has now been resolved.”
The error message warned some Pixel Watch owners that because their device was “running an older version of Wear OS,” it would soon “stop syncing sleep and workout data with Google Health” if it wasn’t updated. Normally that kind of notification would be a good reminder to check…