Google is working on a new tutorial in Android 15 QPR1 beta that explains how to use touchpad gestures for navigation.

Nor can you push a button to open an app on your phone - a feature of Android Wear when paired with an Android phone. But by and large, it works well at pinging you with alerts.

Wear OS 5.1 is based on Android 15, indicating a shift in Google's strategy. App developers can now test Wear OS 5.1 in Android Studio. Wear OS 5.1 may not bring significant user-facing changes.

Wear 2.6 also brings Recent App complication and gesture tweaks Google has just issued a new Android Wear update that should make some of those core features on your Wear watch even better to use.

Starting next month, Google is increasing the minimum OS version for Wallet on Android phones and Wear OS with security cited as the reason.