Pixel Buds are working on a new touch control for calls

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TL;DR

• Pixel Buds earbuds already support a number of tap and swipe gesture controls.
• Those include options for answering, rejecting, and ending voice calls.
• That call support could soon expand to also let you tap to mute and unmute.

When we’re shopping for new earbuds, we may talk a lot about sound quality, battery life, or noise cancelation, but there’s another factor which really impacts earbud satisfaction that all too often goes overlooked: the quality of the on-bud controls. We don’t always want to be pulling our phone out to make every adjustment, so a pair of earbuds that lets us easily tap and swipe to control playback and adjust settings is a big deal. Today we’re checking out what could be the next way Google upgrades the touch controls on its Pixel Buds.

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