Gemini on Wear OS currently requires an active internet connection.
Google now appears to be working on making a limited set of Gemini commands available even without wireless data.
Those could include opening apps, as well as working with timers and alarms.
For as useful as virtual assistants and AI agents can be, all too often accessing them means being tethered to a data connection. On our phones, that’s not normally a deal-breaker, as cellular connectivity’s usually pretty good — and we sometimes even have options for running them locally without data at all. But smartwatches are a lot trickier, lacking the resources for local support, and often leaning on phones for data. If you’re wearing your watch but left your phone at home, you’re out of luck — or at least you have been.
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That could soon change, though, based on some developments we just spotted in Google Gemini on Wear OS. Right now, when you try to do anything with Gemini on your watch without a data connection, you’ll see an error message:
