Record audio on your Pixel Watch

Important: Recorder app is only compatible with Pixel phones.

You can record, save and play back audio files with Recorder app¹ on your Pixel Watch. Sync to your phone for a full transcript, editing, searching and an AI-generated summary (Pixel 8+ only).

Get started

Launch the Recorder app from the app launcher. Open the Recorder app tap Record to begin recording.

Pause/resume: Tap the pause icon to temporarily pause recording. Tap the resume icon to continue.
Save/delete: When finished, tap the tick icon to save the recording or the bin icon to delete it.

Tip: To easily access your Recorder, add the Recorder on your watch home screen. Long-tap on your home screen to edit the clock face and customise watch complications, then add Recorder

Your device will record, even if the screen goes to sleep.

While recording, you'll notice a 'Currently recording' message in your notifications.
You can record up to 30 mins on your watch.

Sync recordings back to phone

You can save recordings directly on your watch. When you first use the Recorder app on your watch, you'll be asked if you want to sync recordings to your phone or keep them on the watch. Turning on back ups allows you to view, edit or even use AI to transcribe or summarise your recordings on your phone.

Important: To access recordings on your Pixel phone, make sure that both the watch and phone are signed in to the same Google Account and that the devices are paired.

Learn how to turn on back up and sync to save recordings to your Pixel phone.

Manage your recordings

Important: To use your phone to manage recordings that you've made on your watch, make sure that you've granted the required Pixel Watch permissions on your phone and that your accounts are synced.

Tap Recordings. This will open a list of your recorded files.
Scroll through recordings. If you have multiple recordings, you may need to scroll down to find the one that you want.
Select a recording by tapping on the specific recording that you want to access. This will usually start playing the recording or open options for playback.

You can edit recording options under Settings:

Toggle 'Back up with phone': If you want to save copies of your recordings on your phone's storage, turn on the toggle for 'Back up with phone'.
Toggle 'get transcript': If you want to generate transcripts for your recordings, turn on the toggle for 'get transcript'.

To edit or access your recording transcript, refer to Record audio on your Pixel phone.

Learn how Recorder handles your data

For more information, refer to Google's Privacy Policy.

^{1 Pixel Recorder and some related features are not available in all countries or languages.}

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