If you accidentally break a Google Pixel Watch, no matter which generation, there is no official way to repair it. Instead of repairing, the company will send you a replacement unit only if you can make a successful warranty claim.
However, there’s some good news for Google Watch owners.
After releasing three generations of unrepairable Pixel watches, the Californian-based tech giant is finally thinking of how to make repairable watches that don’t need to be replaced when they break.
According to a report by Wired, at a panel at Climate Week NYC, Google’s Nicole Azores, a manager of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google, said that the company is looking to make repairable future watch models.
The report said, “Watches and wearables are still fairly nascent and we are thinking through how to make this repairable. We’re thinking about repairability on a broader scale, not just on phones and tablets, and we want to make sure that all of our products eventually become repairable.”
He further added, “ I think watches being so new as a category, there are some design elements that need to be considered on how we make them repairable.”
There’s no information on when this will be in effect. Typically, consumer tech products take a two- to three-year development time, so it’s unlikely to see repairability changes in the next generation.
Many analysts consider it progress from Google, which only seemed to support channels and replacements when discussing repairability and never even talked about any plans of introducing it in future models.
Although the timeline isn’t fixed yet, it’s surely worth looking forward to!
