Google is working on a fix for a buggy Wear OS 5 update. The company says it paused the OTA update rollout on September 26th after people, including my colleague Richard Lawler, reported their Pixel Watch 1 and 2 devices were stuck on a blank screen due to the update.

The Pixel Watch 3 is powered by Qualcomm's W5 Gen 1 chip with a Cortex-M33 coprocessor, a significant upgrade over the original Pixel Watch's Exynos 9110 SoC. This newer processor, which already performs admirably, will certainly help with future software updates, ensuring a snappy and reliable performance.

Google has said that it's still in the process of fixing the broken Wear OS 5 update for the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2.

Google does offer a couple of potential fixes for the blank screen issue, but one involves resetting your watch to factory settings.

Facer is a decade-old watch face store with 500,000 faces and tens of millions of users that lets people get more creative with the most visible part of the Wear OS experience. And Google has basically killed it with Wear OS 5,

Google is currently fixing the Wear OS 5 update and will rollout to the Pixel Watch series smartwatches in the coming weeks.

As the best Android smartwatches battle to bring Android's Wear OS 5 update to older generations of devices, mixed fortunes mean a rollout for the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 could be close at hand. Not so for older Pixel Watch owners, who could have a long wait in store.

Wear OS 5 for the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2 was pulled after some had their devices soft brick, with Google today providing an