Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more.While software updates are usually for adding new features and fixing bugs and glitches, there are occasional hiccups with bad updates. Something like that happened earlier this week when Google started rolling out the Wear OS 5 update for the original Pixel Watch and Watch 2 users. The patch brings a new grid-style app drawer, better camera controls, the Recorder app, and more features to Pixel Watches. Soon after the patch was released, many older-gen Pixel Watch owners excited to try those new features reported black screen issues while installing the update. Thankfully, it seems like Google has hit pause on the Wear OS 5 release for these older Pixel Watches. Pixel Watch Wear OS 5 updated paused Image: Google Folks over at 9to5Google report that Google may have paused seeding the Waer OS 5 patch for older-gen Pixel Watches. After attempting to install the update, affected users reported that their watches were unresponsive or displayed a black screen with a crossed Bluetooth logo. While this issue is fixable, and Google has provided a guide to assist you through the procedure, putting the watch into Fastboot mode for performing a factory reset and re-pairing the device doesn’t sound like much fun. We’re not sure how widespread the problem is, but we’ve seen enough frustrated voices to…Pixel Watch Wear OS 5 rollout paused over black screen issues