Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8 beta 3.
this is available to developers and unfortunately it's not yet available to public beta testers
usually it will come out the same day later in the day or the next day so far we haven't seen it yet
so hopefully we'll see it as soon as tomorrow but along with this we still haven't seen the
public betas of other versions they've released so apple released ios 15 beta 3 ipad os 15 beta 3
tv os 15 beta 3 and mac os monterey beta 3 so all of those are available to developers and we're
still waiting for that public beta now this came in at a fairly large 654 megabytes that's on my
series 6 apple watch that's a pretty large update for a beta install so it's pretty large they must
be fixing a lot of things and they have fixed quite a few things and they've updated some
features as well so let's first take a look at the build number we'll go into our settings then we'll
go down to general then about now as you can see the build number is 19r5302f and this particular
build has some changes and updates in it like i said and the first one has to do with focus
modes so if we go back to our main watch face go up or scroll up here or swipe up go down a little
bit you'll see that we have do not disturb turned on it's it's typical sort of purple icon and if
we change the focus modes on the phone they'll now change with a corresponding color so if we
go into a focus mode you'll see we have do not disturb and maybe we want to go to home evening
there it goes it changed by itself and now it has a blue icon to match so we have a blue icon
if we do the same thing on the phone for maybe we'll go to sleep
this one does not seem to turn on on its own you have to go back in and then swipe up and sort of
turn on sleep from the watch itself so you can go in and then you'll see the corresponding color so
you hit done and now you have the sort of teal green color there as well with sleep so as you
switch between the different modes we'll go back to do not disturb we'll turn this one off
and then again do not disturb it should turn on by itself on the watch so it's nice that
it corresponds and has a matching color to go with it just so you have a color coordinated
idea of what focus mode you're actually in so it's nice to see them add that nice little touch
to this update now something else they've updated has to do with settings so if we go into settings
and then we go to general under general scroll down we'll go all the way to storage this has
been updated with a more graphical representation of what we had with with our storage it's more
similar to what we have with ios for example so you'll see we have 10.8 gigabytes of 32 gigabytes
used and it sort of splits it up by color and then you can see the different things using storage
and then you can go into say podcasts and you've got your app size documents and data for example
so you've got all of these different things broken up it shows you your different messages
what's using data and so it's nice to see a little graphical representation that's a little bit nicer
than what we had before so that's been updated in beta 3. now another thing they've updated in
settings has to do with workout so if we go down to work out go all the way down under workout
there's power saving mode but below that is auto pause this used to say running auto pause so if
we tap on auto pause we can turn it on or off and what that allows is for it to automatically pause
it says running workouts when you stop moving and resume when you start moving again
so it's something that has been there for a little while but they just changed the wording
from running autopaws to autopaws so it's just a slight change visually there now something
that's pretty major for those of you with a series 3 apple watch that are having problems
installing updates and that includes ios as well is you can now install an update if you
have less than 500 megabytes of storage available you no longer have to wipe the device so that you
can install the update and go back it should now work after beta 3. so that's a great sign
that they've allowed that and i think that goes along with the different storage so you can see
what's using your storage and then you can clear that up a little bit but as long as you have
around 500 megabytes of storage they have not given a limit you still should be able
to install that update so it's great to see them do that now as far as overall issues or known or
resolved issues as far as known issues there's still 14 issues remaining now this is not a big
deal this is generally just letting us know what they are and you can see those in the feedback app
on your iphone so if you go into feedback and then you go to your inbox you can see notes and
known issues as you can see here so it talks about the different known issues and if you're having
an issue with your apple watch make sure that it's not listed here first you still may want to report
it or not but if it's listed here just know that they're already aware of it also there's resolved
issues as well so there's about 16 resolved issues in this update and one of those has to
do with that storage i told you about already so you can see here there's the note for it you can
now update your device using software update if less than 500 megabytes of storage is available
there's also fixes to things like dictation for example or where that should work properly so
there's been a lot of resolved issues fixed an issue that caused maps to quit that was in beta
2. so you can go back and see what they've fixed all the way all the way through all the different
updates and if you are having a problem be sure to report them in the feedback app now as far as
battery life overall well i've been using this all day i took it off the charger around 7 30 or 8 a.m
and it's currently 5 18 p.m if i swipe up here you'll see i have 55 percent of my battery life
so under battery i've got 55 remaining and it's doing pretty good i don't leave it on a low power
mode or power reserve or anything like that let's go ahead and take a look at the overall health as
it has gone down a little bit i charge it every night so we'll go down to battery health and on
my apple watch i've used it every day since new and i have 95 of my capacity left this is pretty
typical 80 after two years is is good so we're doing fine here and i just charge it on a typical
watch stand so it works fine with that so i'd say it's okay battery life it's not amazing however
it could improve in the next day but generally i can get through about a day and a half without a
problem with it if you're working out streaming music and things like that it may be a little
bit worse now for those of you that have asked me should you install watch os 8 beta 3 i normally
say unless you have an extra watch or you don't mind being without it for a while if you have a
problem then go ahead but unfortunately there is no way to roll back to watch os 7 currently
or a current public version until they come out with a new one that is later than this version
and that means you have to bring it to apple to actually have them bring it back they typically
send these watches out have it restored and then send it back to you i've had to do that before
and so i don't normally recommend anyone try out the watch os betas unless they know what they're
getting into watchos 8 has been pretty stable overall but usually i wouldn't recommend it to
most people so overall it's been stable it's been working fine i haven't had any bugs personally but
there are some known issues like i mentioned before so it seems pretty good i would expect
within the next two weeks we'll probably see beta 4. typically we're on a two-week schedule
just like ios we'll see beta 4 in a couple weeks and then we'll go to a weekly schedule usually
in august with a release sometime in september so expect that sort of release schedule i've
talked about that at length in other videos but probably by the 28th of july we'll see beta 4 if
they're going to continue a similar schedule and then mid to late september for the final release
so that's it for everything in watch os 8 beta 3 if you found anything else i'd love to hear from
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