Google’s Clock app bug: no longer compatible with multiple smartwatches?
Complaints dating all the way to three weeks ago (as long as more recent entries) on Reddit indicate that the Clock app by Google is no longer compatible with some people’s smartwatches. Curiously enough, it seems that the issue is impacting only non-Pixel timepieces.
Basically, affected users say that the smartwatches are marked as incompatible in the Play Store. One user reports that the Install button is now completely gone.
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Meanwhile, users are, however, not experiencing issues with the Google Clock app on their phones. So it seems the bug is specific to the Wear OS version of the app.
No immediate fix at the moment
It seems that there’s no available workaround right now. People who have tried sideloading the APK report that it doesn’t work. Other suggested solutions are also reportedly not helping the impacted users.
So far, Google appears not to have commented on the issue, but the company should be aware of the issue by now, given the fact that the complaint was first posted on Google’s support page some nine days ago. The bug has caused some people to speculate that the company is making the Clock app a Pixel-exclusive. However, that seems not to be the case, as Google wouldn’t make this decision without notifying users first, possibly months before that happens. Nevertheless, strange things do sometimes happen in the tech world.
There’s no tech without bugs
As much as I hate bugs, they’re a part of tech that’s inevitable. Bugs with basic apps are the most annoying in my opinion, so I’m hoping Google fixes this one soon.
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