Wear OS 5.1 could let you play music on your built-in Android watch speakers

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Google is investigating retired media playback consecutive from Android smartwatches’ built-in speakers successful Wear OS 5.1, according to Android developer merchandise notes spotted by Mishaal Rahman. That’s successful summation to adding enactment for credential managers successful the coming update, which Google revealed is based connected Android 15. (Wear OS 5, which rolled retired earlier this month, is based connected Android 14.)

Watch talker playback volition enactment for “devices that enactment media playback done the ticker speaker,” Google writes, adding that users tin prime the built-in talker for apps that see the capability. It’s not wide which devices that would mean.

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