The Google assistant on the watch is messed up if you try to call or text with it. It keeps giving me the "can't connect to phone" when I try to use them or another feature that doesn't work such as the "play music" option. The saying "ok google" feature also doesn't work even though I have it enabled. From what I've seen these problems have been going on for a while now and many other people are having the same issues.
A Google user
I absolutely hate the 2.1 update. The notification font size has been decreased and multiple notifications are seen at once, making it incredibly hard to see what the notification is about. And, of course, there's no way to change this behavior. Google, once again, couldn't leave something alone and had to fix something that wasn't broken...
J V
Update 2/20/22 still sucks. Having to go through the setup process is so painful. Until they find a way backup settings like a new phone I'm done. It's impossible to remember the plethora of settings that need to be in place to work... wellness, fit etc. Never detects activity automatically. In the end I think the Casio I wore 8th grade was more useful. Cumbersome, limited, buggy. The $250I wear os device tells time well.
A Google user
This app used to work fine, but now it fails to change my music via Google assistant. the other calls to Google assistant seem to work, it can send texts and get weather reports and start phone calls. When I ask to change music it either says Google can't be reached or the phone isn't connected. however I know that the phone is connected because I can skip out rewind tracks with the watch controls. Not being able to ask for a specific song pretty much ruins the experience. It worked for months.
Landon Carter
Complete rewrite... I just want to know if anybody that works on this actually tries to use it? I use Outlook for work and random calendars are available in the agenda area in the app but selecting them doesn't necessarily mean that they'll show up on the agenda on the watch. Google Assistant works about half the time. Answering calls on the watch is hit or miss. The most infuriating thing is you can choose to answer and it'll tell you to go to your phone. This feels like a multi-year beta
Matthew Klinger
Super clunky, slow OS. It's definitely what I'd call unusable. The one thing that really gets me is you can't change the screen timeout time and basically everything takes longer to load than that. So when you click on something, the screen goes black and will sometimes go home so you have to start over again. My workouts never start tracking on google fit either. I basically have to start a workout 15-25 times for it to actually start. That takes about 5 minutes. 5 minutes to click start.
M S
No way to block notifications for a certain time. I use Silence Premium app on my phone to setup "do not disturb" mode at night (10pm to 8am). For the Tickwatch - it doesn't work! Any WhatsApp, or Hangout, or any other message, sent too late or too early - causes vibration on the watch and wake you up. You can only block notifications on the watch completely (one at a time!) through this app. And then, in the morning you have to turn then back on (on at a time). Or don't get messages at all.
A Google user
I've only had my watch (Fossil Carlyle) a couple of days, but so far it has been more frustrating than anything else. The screen timeout is the worst offender by far. How am I supposed to even get familiar with what this can do when I'm only allowed to look at the screen for a stupidly short amount of time? After some research I've found I can change that, but only with a 3rd party paid app. Another basic feature that seems to be missing is text messages. Again, 3rd party paid app.
Raven Ewing
It's cool and all, it pretty much works great but their BIGGEST flaw is that you can not speak to text to SEND a text. You can only do it to REPLY to a text. But if you need to just send one, it doesn't work. I went online to see if I could fix the problem some how and there were HUNDREDS or people talking about having the same problem. It's not something you can really "fix". Some people say that Uninstalling google from your phone helps,but having a Pixel you can't really do that. Soo..
A Google user
I dig it overall, but I'd love to see a flip display & buttons settings. I have a Fossil smartwatch. I wear it on my left wrist, and the buttons are on the right. Which means when I lean on a desk it hits the crown button, and will cause it to reboot. I tried wearing it on my right hand, but I am not used to that. The watchbands however are interchangeable, so I could switch them to make the watch upside down on my left arm, and the buttons will point toward my elbow.
