Google announced that the pause started on September 26, 2024, and the company is currently working to resolve the problem. The company has stated that it has a plan to resume the Wear OS 5 rollout later this year once the issue is addressed. However, there's no guarantee it can do so, so it could always be delayed even further.

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

In late September, reports of soft bricked Pixel Watch 1 and Pixel Watch 2 devices started popping up following the September update to Wear OS 5. This week, Google has acknowledged the issue and confirmed that the update has been pulled until the problem is resolved.