Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released watchos 7.4 to the public this is
available to all watch os 7 supported devices and if you were able to install watchos 7 you'll be
able to install this update as well and it has some significant changes and came in at a few
hundred megabytes depending on which device you're using if you're using the latest apple watch
series six that i've got here it will be a few hundred megabytes it could be larger or smaller
but it installed fairly quickly and has some significant changes within it now the significant
change you need to know about first is you need to have ios 14.5 in order to use this feature which
was also released today along with this and that is being able to use your iphone that has face
id and unlock it when wearing a mask using your apple watch so the first thing you need to do
is enable that and to do that you go into settings scroll down to face id and passcode once you enter
your password scroll down and you'll see unlock with apple watch now if you have a series 3 apple
watch or newer you'll be able to use this feature turn it on and it says use the secure connection
to your apple watch to unlock iphone when a mask prevents face id from recognizing your face
your watch must be nearby on your wrist unlocked and protected by a passcode
so as long as you have all of those things met all those criteria met you have a passcode on
your apple watch you can use it so let me show you how that works so i'll go ahead and put a mask on
you can see i'm wearing a mask now and i have my apple watch on my wrist unlocked ready to go let's
lock my iphone unlock it and swipe up it unlocks immediately and then on the apple watch it says
iphone 12 pro max unlocked by this apple watch so it's pretty seamless works pretty well it's
not super fast all the time but it's pretty good as long as your apple watch is nearby you're good
to go now along with the unlock feature they introduced some other changes as well and the
first one has to do with some new watch faces to complement the spring apple case colors so
if i slide over here the first one you'll see is pistachio you also have purple to go with the new
iphone the purple iphone and some of the colors don't match the names of the cases specifically
so there's pistachio and purple but apple actually calls the case amethyst so it just
depends there's also capri blue and cantaloupe but there's no color to match those specifically
and then there's a new watch face called sunflower as far as the color goes so this is sunflower as
you can see here now along with that there's additional watch face colors if we go into the
numerals duo watch face we'll go to edit and you can see down here there's xx or 20 for example
and if we scroll back a little bit there's quite a few different ones so we'll go back to
where it starts xv which is right here so 15 and we can scroll through
until we get to xix right here where you have a new gradient so all of these are new
along with 20. so we have a bunch of different roman numerals you could call them x i x or
20 or 19 or 20 for example and those are available now as well now along with that there's some
different changes for notifications so on the iphone if we go back to the iphone we go to the
watch app now within the watch app if we go down to accessibility we can scroll down a little bit
further and you'll see headphone notifications this is a similar feature to what we have in
sound and haptics for the iphone when you're using air pods for example but it says to protect your
hearing apple watch sends a notification if you've been listening to loud headphone audio for long
enough to affect your hearing you can turn this on or off and it will let you know if the audio
is very loud or not so it's a nice little option they've added here but you have the option to turn
it off if you don't want it now also they've added a feature that they added to the iphone as well
a little bit earlier but on the apple watch if we go into settings within settings if we go down to
bluetooth under bluetooth just select a device that's not an airpods or an obvious headphone
tap on the eye and tap on it again and you can now classify what it is so you have the option
to select headphone hearing aid speaker or other specifying the type of the device can ensure your
headphone audio level measurements are accurate so it won't reduce the sound overall if maybe
you're using a microphone and you want to use that instead of headphones where headphones it can pull
the audio back if it's too loud it won't touch the audio volume if you specify something else so
it allows you to do this similar to what an iphone does now now they've also added the ability within
apple fitness plus to stream this video so maybe you use workouts for example let's go
down to workout and maybe you're using fitness plus and you want to stream it to a device but
you don't have an apple tv for example you can now stream this to an airplay 2 enabled tv or device
so you have that option if you want to stream that to those devices also if you have an apple
watch series 4 or later and you're in vietnam or australia you now have the option for ecg
the ecg has been around in some countries for quite some time but it usually requires approval
from the local government and apple now allows it in those countries as well this is along with
support for irregular heart rhythm notifications as well in australia and vietnam so both of those
countries now have ecg support and so as far as new features that's pretty much it with watch os
7.4 the face id unlock is nice and it seems to be very stable i've been using it in beta form
for quite some time battery life has actually been pretty decent i've been getting through
about a day and a half to two days without any problem if i put it on the charger at
night it does pretty well and in general it seems to be quite stable i haven't had a single crash
a single reboot or anything like that and so let's go ahead and go back here we'll go back
we'll go to battery just so i can show you battery life i know some people are concerned about this
quite a bit with this update but the battery life seems to be great you'll see two hours ago it was
charged to 100 i've had the screen on a lot doing these videos getting ready for them for example
and that drains a lot of battery but in general you should expect great battery life on these
devices with this update now as far as should you install watch os 7.4 well if you want the face id
unlock with wearing a mask you have to install it this there's no option other than that but watch
os updates generally tend to be very stable without issues anyway so i wouldn't hesitate
to install this especially if you want those new features such as ecg and you live in australia or
vietnam or you want the new watch faces to match a new spring apple case for example so you'll have
those options as well so i definitely recommend installing it it's been stable overall i haven't
had any performance issues or anything else and soon we will have watchos 7.5 that's already in
beta but there isn't anything significant so far that's in that version so once we know
more about that and it comes out to the public of course i'll have videos about that as well
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