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

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Google is testing out media playback straight from Android smartwatches’ built-in speakers in Wear OS 5.1, according to Android developer release notes spotted by Mishaal Rahman. That’s in addition to adding support for credential managers in the coming update, which Google revealed is based on Android 15. (Wear OS 5, which rolled out earlier this month, is based on Android 14.)

Watch speaker playback will work for “devices that support media playback through the watch speaker,” Google writes, adding that users can pick the built-in speaker for apps that include the capability. It’s not clear which devices that would mean.

Android smartwatches only play media over Bluetooth right now — something that was true of all Apple Watches u…

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