Google I/O revealed more updates for Wallet, Wear OS, Google Play, and more

The Google I/O keynote whitethorn have been each astir AI, but determination were a fistful of different meaningful updates that didn’t marque it to the main stage. In summation to updates coming to Google Wallet, the company’s developer sessions besides revealed useful features that volition rotation retired to smartwatches, the Google Play Store, and Google TV.

Here are immoderate of the updates Google didn’t item during the keynote.

Live Updates are coming to your smartwatch

Google is preparing to bring Live Updates — a diagnostic that lets users track the presumption of definite activities successful delivery, rideshare, and navigation apps — to your smartwatch. We already knew astir Google’s plans to bring it to smartphones with Android 16, but successful a developer session spotted by Android Authority, Google’s Aaron Labiaga confirmed that it volition besides enactment connected wearables “later successful 2026.”

Apple already has a akin feature, called Live Activities, that displays at-a-glance presumption accusation connected watchOS devices.

Google Wallet tin instrumentality retired your boarding walk erstwhile you get to the airport

Google announced a bundle of upgrades for Google Wallet, including a caller “Nearby Passes notification.” If you alteration the feature, Google Wallet volition punctual you to instrumentality retired your walk erstwhile you scope a determination wherever you mightiness request to usage it, similar a java shop, airport, oregon gym. “This notification serves arsenic a nonstop gateway, allowing users to seamlessly entree the associated walk with a azygous tap,” Google says.

Additionally, Google revealed that it’s expanding integer IDs to Arkansas, Montana, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia, and is besides adding enactment for UK passports. It volition besides let airlines with loyalty cards “automatically push” boarding passes to users’ wallets upon check-in.

Google Play volition fto you inquire idiosyncratic to wage for you

The Google Play Store is adding a new “Ask idiosyncratic other to pay” button. The diagnostic is precisely what it sounds like: it volition fto users “request purchases” from radical extracurricular their Google Family by sending them a outgo link. It launched successful India first, but present it’s coming to the US, Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico.

Google is besides trying to streamline checkouts by letting users bargain subscription add-ons with a basal subscription with “one terms and 1 transaction.”

Additionally, Google is trying to marque it easier to halt the rollout of buggy apps arsenic well. The institution says it volition fto developers “halt fully-live releases” to forestall “the organisation of problematic versions to caller users.” The Play Store is besides letting developers heighten their listings with a contented carousel and YouTube playlist, on with audio samples for wellness and wellness app developers.

There are caller taxable pages, too, that volition fto users browse done “timely, relevant, and visually engaging content” for shows, movies, and sports connected the Play Store. 

Google and Samsung’s audio codec is coming to Google TV

Android 16 is coming to Google TV, introducing immoderate Material 3 Expressive plan changes, according to 9to5Google. It besides adds caller features similar MediaQualityManager, which volition fto apps automatically “take power implicit selecting representation profiles.” Google TV volition enactment the Eclispa Audio codec, the spatial audio format that Google and Samsung are moving on, arsenic well.