Hi everyone Zaron here for Zollotech and today apple released watchos 8.4.1 to the public this
is available to all watch os 8 supported devices and is available on the series 4 to series 7
apple watch for some reason apple did not release it for the series 3 apple watch so
apparently there wasn't a bug or security update that was needed in that particular watch so if you
have a series 4 to series 7 you should see it now unless you're on the betas of watch os 8.5
then you won't see it as you're on a newer version that's being tested now as far as the overall size
of this you can see that it came in at 327 megabytes that's on a series six apple watch
and this was an old version that was not updated since watch os 8.1 or since the series 7 came
out so if you're on the latest version it will probably be smaller under 100 megabytes you'll see
here's a different watch 71.7 megabytes now let's take a look at the build number and talk about
what's new so to see the build number that tells us what version we're on we'll go to settings
then we'll go to general then about and you can see the version is 19s 550 this particular build
just lets us know we're on the latest version and when apple released this it's a little bit odd on
their website this is a public-facing website you'll see it says watch os 8.4.1 february 8
2022. well right now it's february 1st so maybe they were intending to release this next week
and maybe we could see some more next week also another curious thing is a test flight update
that they pushed out on january 28th because it says apps built for ios 15.4 beta 4 ipad os 15.4
beta 4 mac os 12.3 beta tv os 15.4 beta and watch os 8.5 beta can use xcode 13.3 so whether or not
that's a typo or we have to wait for three more betas since we're already on beta 1 is hard to say
but i just thought i'd point that out now as far as anything new in this update while apple says
watch os 8.4.1 includes bug fixes for apple watch series 4 and later and they have not specified
exactly what this is for however earlier this week quite a few people had an issue with the syncing
between devices with the apple watch and iphone when you're using apple wallet so if you're using
an apple card with your apple device maybe iphone apple watch you add a new pass to your iphone it
doesn't show up properly on the apple watch now apple has not said they've resolved this i thought
this was resolved with the icloud outage we had last week but either way apple has not commented
on it so they've just said that they've fixed bugs and there's also security updates in it
so it could be related to that or maybe the charging bug but the specific charging bug was
pretty much fixed with the previous update of 8.4 they specifically mentioned that and fixed that in
that update i haven't heard of other people having issues with the charging update but if you did
hopefully it's resolved for you and i'd love to hear from you in the comments below now as far as
the security updates if we go to the apple website we can see those here they have a security update
site and if you scroll down you can see it says watch os 8.4.1 it says this update has no
published cve entries so they're not publishing what they've updated as far as security but
they went far enough to actually push a security update and then say that they have one but they
didn't publish anything about it so there could be specific fixes in here but they didn't want to
tell us what they are and maybe they're fixing an issue and they felt that it was a big enough issue
to push out this update to begin with so as far as that goes that's what we're seeing in this update
it's going to be mostly a stability update or bug fix update so stability overall on my apple watch
has been pretty good and most people say that it's the same thing even if you're on watch os 8.5
since that's in the works most people are having a pretty stable experience with it whether it be
loading different apps maybe we go down here or up here rather we'll go to podcasts
you'll see it should open fairly quickly it's going to take a moment to update the library
since i haven't opened opened it in quite some time and you'll see as i scroll through it's
nice and fast so it seems to be responding fast no issues there whatsoever and with watch os 8.5
we should have new emoji when we get that so i'll talk about when to expect that in a moment
as far as battery life well the battery is at 100 percent currently because i just put it on
the charger to install the update however many of you have asked what's the battery health like on
this watch since it's a little bit older so this is my series six apple watch and if i go down to
battery go to battery scroll down a little bit more go to battery health there we go we're at
88 percent maximum capacity so after a year and a few months we're down to 88 percent 80 after
two years is completely normal and updates don't reduce the battery health they're just checking
the overall physical capability of the battery so i really wouldn't worry about that and that leads
me to should you install this update and i would say if you're on a series 4 or newer and not on
the current betas absolutely install it because of the bug fix whether that be the syncing issue
with apple wallet or whether that be a fix that we weren't aware of or security updates i would
highly recommend you install it just for those reasons there's always security updates and those
are important to have installed on your watch and typically watch os is very stable regardless
of the updates so it seemed important enough to push this out even though it said next month or
next week rather with this particular update as i showed you earlier where it said february 8th so
it's kind of odd that they did that but i would say definitely install this so that leads me to
think maybe we'll have ios 15.3.1 next week maybe they just wanted to push this out early enough as
they found maybe a security issue they thought was critical enough to get that out and release now so
maybe we'll see ios 15.3.1 a little bit later on but as far as watch os 8.5 beta 2 i would expect
it next week unless apple wants to change it to this week typically with early betas we'll have
a bi-weekly release until we get to about beta 3 and then we'll have a weekly release after that so
i think we'll have a release next week although this is a surprise release this week and we could
see them update this again tomorrow or maybe even later tomorrow or even on a friday at this point
they've really been random about that but as far as major changes don't expect anything major until
watch os 9 and ios 16 that they should show at wwdc in june and that's when we see the major
updates every year and then they release those in september so don't expect any major changes to
apple watch we do expect a couple different apple watch models later this year such as the series
8 maybe a rugged version and a new se version but other than that we're not expecting much
many of you ask what watch face i'm using so i did want to cover that briefly so if i press and hold
you'll see it's called infograph modular so if we go to edit you'll see it's infograph modular the
date is in the upper right then we've got the time messages on the left and then in the middle it's
an app called lumi so this is an app called lumi it's a paid app that shows when is the best time
to take a photo for example and then also in the bottom right we have activity music in the middle
and then we have the weather in the bottom left so that's all this is just infograph modular now
as far as anything else well that's all there is in this particular update it's just a bug fix and
security update but if you've found anything else in it i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below also if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
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