Google Pixel Watch May Get Adaptive Charging with Wear OS 6

The longevity of your tech devices’ batteries, whether they’re smartphones, tablets, or smartwatches, is increasingly important. For this reason, brands add some features to reduce battery wear, especially in newer-generation products. It seems that Pixel Watch users will soon get a similar touch with the Google Wear OS 6 update.

Wear OS 6 may bring adaptive charging to Google Pixel Watch devices with

For those who don’t know, the Adaptive Charging feature on Google Pixel smartphones analyzes users’ charging habits to optimize the charging process. For instance, the feature slowly charges the battery during overnight charging. It typically finishes charging to 100% about an hour before you unplug the device.

This feature helps reduce battery wear over time, as devices don’t stay fully charged for extended periods. Besides, slow and controlled charging prevents the battery from overheating and can help avoid potential issues. If you wish, you can manually disable this feature in just a few steps. This will cause your device to charge to 100% more quickly.

Android Authority spotted a similar feature in the developer preview of Google Wear OS 6. Code strings found in the ClockworkSysUiGoogle app suggest that Google is working on bringing adaptive charging from Pixel phones to the Pixel smartwatches.

Details about how the feature will work are unknown

For now, details about how Wear OS 6’s Adaptive Charging feature for the Pixel Watch will work, to what percentage the smartwatches will charge, and when charging will be fully completed remain unclear. However, based on past reports, we can say it will likely follow a similar logic to that of Pixel phones.

Of course, there is another important detail here. Not every feature found in developer preview versions makes it to the stable release. Therefore, it’s best to take this one with a grain of salt for now.