Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8 to all supported devices
that means an apple watch series 3 series 4 series 5 se series 6 and the new series 7. this update is
available now to all of those supported devices and it comes in at a fairly small update given
that the update is fairly significant as well it was about 327 up to about 600 or 800 megabytes it
just depends on the device that you're actually using so we'll go ahead and take a look at
everything that's new but this update is the exact same as the update of beta9 that they had if you
were a developer or public beta tester so if you had that just delete your public beta profile or
your beta profile and reboot the watch check for an update and you're done there is no additional
update you already had it a little bit early now as far as new features and changes in this update
well there's quite a few of them and the first one has to do with the always on display so if you
have one of the apple watches with the always on display series 5 6 or 7 it now supports more apps
including alarm stopwatch and favorite third-party apps so they can now use this as well with the
always-on display now in watch os 8 there's a couple new watch faces and selecting a watch face
looks a little bit different so if we press on it here we'll just skip past the ones we have already
i'll show you them in a moment but you can see it says new watch faces and as we scroll down we can
add them so we've got a couple new ones in this update but as we scroll down we can add them and
you'll have all of the same ones you had before but now you have additional watch faces as well
so let me hit cancel on this and we'll go back and the first one is a new portraits watch face
now this is typically meant for people i'm showing it to you with cars but you can zoom in and out a
little bit and it just shows you a portrait of whoever you choose within the app now if we go
to the app on the phone you can choose here so if we go over to the app itself and maybe
you want to set up your portraits watch face you can edit it and then add different styles
and then add photos and you can choose up to 24 photos to rotate through all of your different
portraits that you want it can be people and it even works for cars as i'm showing you here so you
have that as well as some complications as well if you'd like to set that as your current watch face
now there's another one you've probably already seen and that is the world time watch face this
has been updated and if you press and hold you can see it says world time and if we go into
edit we can change it from analog to digital and then also we can adjust the overall colors of the
entire thing so we have a lot of different colors to choose from and a lot of colors that match the
brand new watch bands they released with iphone 13 they announced with that with all of the new
cases for the iphone 13 as well you can also use all of your typical complications here as you can
see around the outside edge so that has been updated as well so there's those two new watch
faces built into this now as far as apps go photos gets a little bit of an update if we go into
photos i have memories i also have some featured photos and some favorites as well and when you
go into them there's sort of a collage of photos if there's a bunch of them they'll take up more
space here but you can just go into favorites and swipe between them now within a photo you can now
more easily share a photo so tap the little share icon and you can share it to whoever you'd like
with your messages tap on it and you have quick access to share that with an individual
so it makes it really nice to be able to do that now to go along with that messages gets an update
as well and it's much easier to message using multiple methods so if we go into messages and
within a message you can see this is just texting myself but you can see we have the little app icon
here where we can use memoji we can search for gifs or gifs and that's been updated just like
you can do on ios now if we go and cancel this and we tap on a message we can now more easily
dictate a message or scribble a message from the same screen so we'll tap on it here
and if i want i can tap the little microphone to dictate the message i've got my emoji here or i
can just write the letter h and then draw an i and it picks that up or i can say hi how are you today
and then i can send it from there so they've made it all accessible from one place and it's much
easier with additional options as well now there's a new assistive touch feature for accessibility
that is really impressive so if we go into the watch app again and we just scroll down to
accessibility under accessibility scroll down to motor and you'll see assistive touch now you can
turn this on on the watch as well but if we turn this on we can now use hand gestures with one hand
to control the watch so you want to have a fairly tight fitting band when you do this that's why i
have this nylon band on here from apple we'll put this on my wrist and as you can see the screen is
off if i raise my wrist you'll see a blue square or outline appears around the outside edge let
me show you one more time we'll bring it up and there's a little blue outline to let you know it's
active now there's a couple different gestures we need to know basically there's a pinch there's
a double pinch there's a clench and a double clench this will allow us to control the watch so
if i double clench you'll see it activates if i pinch once it selects the next thing so it's kind
of hard to show here but it's selecting the next thing as i pinch if i double pinch it goes back
if i clench it selects if i double clench it goes back and gives me a menu down at the bottom now we
have this option as well i'm going to select it and this is sort of a cursor if i hold my
wrist straight there we go you can see there's a little cursor that appears so i want to go back
we can we can go down here and press crown and then it selects and brings us back so
hopefully you can see that it's a little bit hard but there's a little cursor here as well
we can activate that we can control with our wrist and select so maybe i want to select music
i can select we'll select it's a little hard to get using or get used to but it does work
pretty well so again we can go back then we want to go over one and then press the crown
and bring us back so once you learn how to use this it's a really helpful tool to navigate your
watch now just like on the iphone this year with ios 15 we also have focus modes with apple watch
so if we slide up here on the bottom you'll see that we have do not disturb activated if i tap
on it tap on it again we have our focus modes that carry across the different devices so i have work
sleep weekend mindfulness home evening and driving so we'll go back to do not disturb
and we'll just turn it on for now and now it's on and you can see again it syncs across ios 15
and it immediately switches so it's synced across the watch it lets everybody know i'm in do not
disturb and messages don't come through but you can set up focus modes that pertain to the watch
and notifications there as well now also music has a redesign and they've incorporated the music
app with radio now so you have iphone with your different music your different albums here and it
looks a little different and then you have radio with your library on iphone listen now and more so
you can go to your your radio go into your library you can search as well and it works really well so
you have all those different options and it just looks a little bit different and you'll see those
boxes still stay there with assistive touch on but this has been updated with music and it looks a
little bit better it's a little easier to navigate now we also have a couple new apps so we have
mindfulness mindfulness is sort of a combination of breathe and then a new restfulness or reflect
mode so you'll see we have breathe and then reflect reflect is just another way to sort of
take your mind off of things for a little while if we go into reflect it says take a moment to pause
so we'll give it just a moment here and it says bring to mind a recent problem you needed to solve
recall how you found the answer and then you can begin and this is just a new mode they've
added and you'll see they just have a little visual graphic here and then you can go back
to end but you have a little visual graphic that changes and then it will give you time to reflect
sort of relax a little bit and then carry on with your day so just like breathe the same sort of
thing you have new breathe animations as well so they've changed the way this looks so the breathe
animation has been updated and it gives you an idea of what this is like if you use breathe
to sort of relax throughout the day and it can remind you as well so you get the idea of what
it looks like it's just sort of a blooming blue flower it's a really nice look and let's see if we
can end that for now so that has been updated if we go back there's additional changes as well so
just like apple updated find my this year on the watch they've separated it into
three different categories we have find device find item and five find people so
where we could have find my before we now have find items as well so if we go into find items
you'll see it says keep track of your everyday items and then you'll see these are my air tags
and so it's showing aaron's backpack with me and then some others as well so just like you
can locate those on your phone you can do that on the watch if i go into it it gives me a map
above this then i can play a sound get directions notify when found notify when left behind and turn
on lost mode so that has been updated in watch os 8. now another update they've made is if we
go into our apps go to timers we can add multiple timers at once now so we can scroll down you can
see we have a timer for an hour or two hours 30 minutes we can set those or set custom we can set
multiple timers at once now where we couldn't do that before now sleep gets some updates as
well so if you're using the sleep app and you want to customize this it can measure more information
so you'll see there's bedtime and wake up wake up time it can now measure respiratory rate and
will also display trends in the health app so you can find more information about that and
if we go over to the health app we can see that within the health app we have sleep and you'll
see there's different trends here now i don't use this for sleep typically so i don't like things on
my wrist while i'm sleeping but you can go in and see sleep and see trends and see more information
about that if you're tracking your sleep from day to day so you can get wind down shortcuts and more
but it will track that and it talks more about getting a good night's sleep and why sleep is
important and more so they've updated that to just track more information if you'd like that while
you're sleeping and you use that regularly now another thing they've updated is home so if you
have some home devices they now give you general statuses at the top so you can see from my office
there's a little plug with a little icon next to it and it shows me my different outlets here
so it just gives me more information i can turn all off and it's a little bit easier to control
and just like with the iphone you've got more options for your smart home as well so when one
of your devices is activated watch os 8 will automatically make suggestions for others that
are nearby so maybe your home it recognizes that you have a light that you normally turn on it's
say 5 pm and at the same time you turn something else on it can make suggestions as to what you
may want to turn on as well so that's built in if you want to turn those on of course you can
ignore those altogether but another instance they give is if someone rings your connected doorbell
you might see an option to unlock the door or turn on the entry lights when someone does that
also watch os 8 can intelligently know when you're turning devices on and give you the option for say
lights that you turn on in the evening so if it knows you turn on your lights regularly at home
that you have connected at say 9 pm it can suggest that or put that on your screen at 9 pm so that it
just makes it one step less to get to when you want to do that so they've updated that as well
and you can see all the different statuses there although i have a little exclamation point at home
where it's not able to find i guess my apple tv but it gives you an idea of how that works
now something that many people are excited about that isn't here just yet for most places is in
the wallet app you're going to be able to use your id not only on the iphone but also on your iphone
in some places you can also use different home locks and things or key cards within the wallet
app if you have that in your house or maybe at a place of business so you could just tap your watch
to that and unlock the device so that's something that will be coming later with digital keys
but you need to have a supported device and if you have one you may be able to use it now but the id
will take a little bit longer with that digital id so that's something to look forward to in the
future but right now we can't use it here now as far as weather goes weather can now notify you of
different things going on maybe weather alerts and more so next hour precipitation and also
severe storm notification so the app hasn't been updated too much on the watch but it will at least
give you those additional notifications in here as well now watch os 8 get some new workouts as well
so if we go down we'll find the different workouts here there's two new workouts or updates to them
the first one is tai chi so that's been added and they've also updated some pilates workouts as well
they've also updated the ability for the watch to recognize when you're taking a bicycle ride
and maybe suggest that it become a workout so if you're going on your bicycle it will suggest that
you're working out just like it did before when you were maybe taking a walk or going for a run
it can do that all by itself now and in the future it will sense when you
fall when you're working out so that's something that's coming a little bit later with a future
update but that's something that they're going to be bringing also if you use fitness plus there's
going to be guided meditation coming soon as well as group workouts coming soon that use share play
and i started that workout by mistake there but you'll be able to use share play and have sort
of group workouts together with a bunch of people and show your own stats to yourself and your goals
with others so that's been updated now another thing they've updated is the loudness detection
so where we had this before you've got the little ear here if we go to our apps we can go to noise
and it will tell us our real time decibel level of the surrounding noise or environment around us
now it can show in real time with notifications for maybe using headphones or something along
those lines where it will display that in real time and just let you know if you need to get
out of that loud environment as it may cause damage so that's something that you can of
course turn off if you don't want but it's built in if you'd like to use that now there's a new app
for contacts if we go into our apps go to contacts you can see that there's my name and then above it
is new contact if we tap on new contact we can add the full individual here or company and add that
to our contacts directly from the watch instead of having to go to the phone so they've just made it
a little bit easier to go between different devices to do this now additionally there's
updates to enhanced family setup features that will allow you to use transit cards for certain
regions as well as family members can now easily use that public transportation with your cards
then google calendar and mail accounts are also supported and hiking and workout metrics are
now validated for kids so those have all been added to watch os eight and so that is all of
the major changes within watch os eight there's a lot of little changes some additional workouts
some new watch faces and some new capabilities and more let me know your favorite feature of
watch osa and if you've already updated as well i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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