hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
today apple released watchos 8.6 to the
public this is available to all watch os
8 supported devices from the series 3
apple watch all the way up to this
series 7 apple watch along with this
apple also released ios 15.5 which
you'll want in order to install this
update as well as ipad os 15.5 tv os
15.5 and mac os 12.4 and homepod os 15.5
all of those are available to the public
now
now this particular update was 258
megabytes it's a fairly small update it
should be between 200 to 300 megabytes
on most devices and adds a few new
features depending on where you live and
some for all of us if you have
accessibility options
now the first thing is before we talk
about that let's take a look at the
build number and then we'll take a look
at the new features so we'll go into our
settings here find our settings app go
to general then about and you can see
the version is 8.6 with a build number
of 19 t 572 this is the exact same build
that we had with watch os 8.6 rc or
release candidate so if you're already
on the beta program or you're a
developer this is the same version and
you won't have an update if you're on a
previous version of 8.5 or earlier you
can install this update and you'll see
it right away so if you are a beta
tester and you no longer want to receive
betas uninstall the beta profile and
then you'll have the regular version you
just had a week or so early
now the first new feature has to do with
accessibility and this is something that
apple doesn't advertise directly but if
we go into the watch app and we scroll
down to accessibility under
accessibility go to voiceover under
voiceover scroll to the bottom and we
have hand gestures under hand gestures
you'll see if we go to one of the
customized gestures we have magic tab
this is something that we've had on ipad
and iphone for a while and it allows for
a two-finger tap on the apple watch so i
know a lot of people have been looking
forward to this as it's something that
should be super helpful if you need it
so that's something they've added with
watch os 8.6
now they've also added ecg in mexico so
if you're within mexico and you have a
series 4 apple watch or newer you can
use the ecg function now this is only
available in mexico as far as a new
place and all the other places already
was they haven't mentioned any
additional places
also it will give you a regular heart
rhythm notifications in the same area as
well so in mexico you'll have that on a
series 4 or newer so that's something
that they've added and this is up to
your local government so they have to
work with apple to enable this and so if
you don't have it in your local yet or
where you live hopefully they'll be
bringing it soon
now as far as resolved issues or
anything there well they have fixed an
issue for developers that use store kit
2 where they can now initiate a
subscription office purchase for a
product that can the customer currently
subscribe to prior to this it actually
hit a bug where sometimes that wouldn't
work
apple has not mentioned any issues as
far as fast charging or anything like
that or resolving that issue so i know
some people were having issues with fast
charging i haven't really had that issue
myself but we'll have to see over the
next few days if it's actually cleared
up if you're still having issues when
you put your watch on a charger and you
have the right charger connected it
would fast charge before on the series
seven it should still be doing that as
that was supposed to be resolved in
prior updates but i know some people
were still having that
now as far as additional updates well
there are quite a few security updates
in this and you can see that by going to
apple's security website if we go into
safari we'll refresh here
they've now added the security updates
and you can see that here so if we go
down to watch os 8.6
under watch os 8.6 there's quite a few
here i'll leave a link to this in the
description but you can see everything
from apple avd you keep scrolling
there's a ton of them all the way down
to wi-fi and you can read this by seeing
where it says available for apple watch
series 3 and later the impact is the bug
that it had so a malicious application
may disclose restricted memory to fix it
that's under the description a memory
corruption issue was addressed with
improved validation and then it was
contributed by an anonymous researcher
so you can read every single one of
these if you want and see all of the
security updates and so that leads me to
should you install watch os 8.6 well
based on the number of security updates
i would absolutely install it typically
watch os updates are fairly stable
anyway so i really don't have any
hesitation saying install it and of
course if you're concerned about fast
charging it should only get better from
here on out
now as far as overall performance i
noticed no difference using the rc
whether that be going into different
workouts going in to see what's new here
or just loading simple things maybe
we'll go into the calculator it loaded
nice and fast it's not something i use
regularly but you'll see my apps are
loading nice and fast and i've had no
slow down whatsoever
as far as battery life well you can see
here i'm at 76 percent it's been off the
charger since about 8 8 a.m this morning
or so or 8 30 a.m and it's now almost 4
p.m in the afternoon so it's doing
pretty well i didn't use it for a
workout or anything but i can easily get
through a day or day and a half with it
without a problem if we go to settings
we'll take a look at my battery health
as quite a few of you have asked me
about that so we'll go down to battery
here
under battery we'll let it load go down
to battery health
and i'm at 100 maximum capacity so i put
this on the charger every single night
use it all day and then put it back on
the charger at night before i go to bed
or sometimes a little earlier than that
so it's doing pretty well and we're past
the six month point so it's holding up
better than the series six did now as
far as the next version of watch os well
i would expect watch os 8.7 betas
probably within
this week or next at this point
typically we'll have betas all the way
up until we have watchos 9. now we do
expect watch os 9 to be released at
least in beta on june 6th so if we go
here on june 6th at wwdc we expect apple
to release ios 16 beta 1 along with
watchos 9 beta 1 which is supposed to be
a pretty significant update so we'll
have to wait and see what apple includes
with that but you can expect the first
beta on the 6th if you're a developer
with a final release typically in
september usually when they show new
products so if apple does what they've
done every year we can expect it around
that time and so we shouldn't see any
big updates from now until probably at
least june where they show off watch os
9 as far as updates with watch os so
it's pretty stable overall i wouldn't
expect any major changes and hopefully
maybe with watchos 9 we can finally have
custom watch faces other than the ones
they give us we'll just have to wait and
see let me know what you would like to
see most in watch west9 i'd love to hear
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