Summary
- The Pixel Watch 3 watch faces are already available for sideloading on other Wear OS watches.
- You need to download the APK to your Wear OS watch, not the phone.
- Google may eventually bring the Pixel Watch 3’s new watch faces to its existing smartwatches.
Aside from a new size option with a larger display, the Google Pixel Watch 3 lineup doesn’t include any major internal changes. Most of the new features are software-focused, meaning there’s no reason why Google can’t bring them to the first and second-generation Pixel Watch. Aside from the new features, the Pixel Watch 3 also ships with some new watch faces. Thankfully, you can enjoy these new watch faces right now on your Pixel Watch or any other Wear OS smartwatch – weeks ahead of the Pixel Watch 3’s retail availability.
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The latest Google Pixel Watch Faces APK (v3.0.119.647124927) is already available for download on APKMirror. Many users on Reddit (2) report that they were able to use the new Pixel Watch 3 watch faces on their OnePlus 2R or Pixel Watch after sideloading the APK.
This is the Pixel Watch 3 watch face on the Pixel Watch 2
The only catch is that you need to install the APK on your watch, not the phone. This is a complicated process that requires you to enable wireless ADB debugging on your watch and then sideload the APK using ADB via your phone or computer. You can also use Wear Installer 2 and follow this tutorial to learn how to sideload APKs. While the APK will install on your phone just fine, it won’t give you access to the watch faces on the Pixel Watch 3.
While there are plenty of third-party watch faces for Wear OS watches available on the Play Store, first-party watch faces, especially those from Google, are the best designed.
Pixel Watch 3 is not even available in stores yet
Google should eventually bring some of the Pixel Watch 3’s new watch faces to its existing smartwatches, but that will likely take a few weeks or months. Some of the Pixel Watch 2’s exclusive watch faces were brought to the original model a few weeks after the original model’s release. Interestingly, the Pixel Watch 3 runs on Wear OS 5, but the latest Pixel Watch Faces APK installs easily on Wear OS 4 watches.
The Pixel Watch 3 is currently available for pre-order and is scheduled to hit stores on September 10. The original and second-generation Pixel Watch may receive their Wear OS 5 update around the same time, bringing some of the Pixel Watch 3’s features.
