hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8.5 rc
or release candidate this is the final version that's released to developers and public beta
testers early and then if they find no additional issues it's the same version that they'll release
to the public a little bit later on so if you're a beta tester and wondering if you should remove
the beta profile if you no longer wish to be a beta tester in the future you could do that
now however sometimes they will release a second release candidate if they find additional issues
either way if you do remove the beta profile now as a beta tester you'll be able to get the final
version once it's released now this particular update came in at 159 megabytes that's on my
series 7 apple watch and alongside this they also released ios 15.4 rc ipad os 15.4 rc
tvos and homepod os 15.4 rc along with mac os 12.3 rc all of those are available for developers
and beta testers now now before we talk about what's new let's take a look at the build number
that just tells us what version we're actually on you can see that we have it installed
and you can find that under settings general and then about you'll see the version here 8.5 and the
build number is 19t 242 so that lets us know we're on the latest version and let's talk about what's
new now the first thing that's new has to do with mail now if you have an icloud plus subscription
or just mail in general that you use on your iphone you'll have a new option here
so if we go down to mail within our settings within the mail app there it is under mail you'll
see we now have the always load content directly option so we can turn that on
it will load the content directly on the watch we also get an update here where it says hide ip
address this relates to what we have with icloud plus security where we might have private relay
and hide your mail information as well and this is just telling you that it's doing that where
it didn't do that prior to 15.4 so it says show alerts alerts from vips and thread notifications
don't ask before deleting load remote images organized by threads and hide ip address so those
have been updated with 8.5 now as far as anything else that's new well we have some new watch faces
you can see the first one here and these are related to new watch bands apple released
after the apple event earlier today so that apple event took place where we had new macs
some new iphones as well as an updated ipad but in the apple store they didn't announce this directly
but we have some new cases for spring as well as new watch bands so you can see the solo loop
here we have nectarine lemon zest mineral green and eucalyptus so those are some new solo loops
if we go down we've got some other braided loops flamingo starlight and bright green again if we
keep going down you can see some new ones here and there the sport band again bright green lemon zest
and blue fog and keep going down further under the sport loop we have lavender gray and light lilac
nectarine and peony as well as oat milk and lemon zest and blue jay and abyss blue and also midnight
and eucalyptus so we have all of those and we have the corresponding watch updates as well
for our faces so if we go into a watch face with just the color tap on that you can see the colors
here so i already have blue fog but you have bright green eucalyptus nectarine flamingo
and so on so english lavender and so on to match the corresponding bands if you want to pick one
of those up so they've updated that a little bit if you want to change your watch to that
now we also have the option on the apple watch to now authorize apple tv purchases from the watch
and subscriptions so if you're using apple pay you have it set up here you'll be able to do that
that's something a little bit new also you have the option to add vaccination cards an apple
wallet they'll also show up on your apple watch it's now supported in the eu digital certificate
format so you can actually see it here on your watch itself just adding into the health app
you'll be able to see that now one thing i think some people will benefit from here is
an update to irregular heart rhythm notifications that are actually designed to improve atrial
fibrillation identification this is now updated in the united states chile hong kong south africa
and many regions where the feature is available now i went to the link that apple provided and i
did not see a whole lot of information just yet so it says page not found when you go to their link
so we'll probably see that with the release of 8.5 but hopefully they've updated it everywhere
although they haven't said specifically now if you're using fitness plus there's also
some additional updates there as well so if we go up to fitness or we go to workouts rather
on the watch on the watch with fitness or workouts you have these different workouts
and things and there's now new guides that will help you through this with audio hints
so maybe you're using fitness plus it will give you an audio commentary of visually demonstrated
moves during a workout so if you set one up it will give you more information to make sure
you're doing the workout properly there's also the addition of a developer feature or update where
developers are now able to express the preference for payment networks so you can do that within
the code and update it there but it's specific to developers now there are no resolved issues that
they've mentioned as far as bugs or anything else but there is a known issue that still
remains that has to do with siri on the series 3 apple watch so with the series 3 apple watch
siri may not recognize properly the user's speech so if you're speaking it might not understand it
properly they've left this bug in there apparently it needs to be fixed with a future update because
it's a known issue however i'm curious if you're still having issues with that prior to this update
however it's one of those things that it's hard to say if it's going to happen all the time
or just once in a while in specific circumstances they haven't set as far as that goes
now as far as battery life on this well i have this on the charger to update you'll see i'm at 98
and it's just gone down a couple percent while filming this video so it hasn't really gone down
a ton but let's take a look at the battery health just so you can take a look at it as well as
battery life over time it did seem during the betas earlier on that it was draining a little
bit faster than before but you'll see i'm at 100 battery capacity as far as the health goes
and battery usage overall has been pretty good so i really haven't had any issues with it with
battery it seems to get me through a day without a problem although i'm not using it to work out
all the time i do take walks and things like that and it does use it during that time but if you're
using it a ton it's probably going to be about the same as you've seen performance seems to be
quite good i haven't really had any issues with it it's nice and fast going into different apps
no issues there and if i go into an app that i don't use all the time such as podcasts on here
it loads nice and quickly so that leads me to should you install watch os 8.5 rc and typically
i would advise against it if you're not already on an earlier beta because there is no way to go back
without sending this into apple so if you have a problem with maybe 8.5 rc it causes a problem
with your watch and maybe it just boot loops or has some lockups and odd problems the only way to
go back to the current version is to send it into apple or bring it to an apple store and have them
send it out and fix it so at this point in time i typically don't recommend trying out betas
however if you're already on the beta then definitely i would upgrade and at least get the
latest version so you can test it out and provide feedback if needed now as far as when to expect
watch os 8.5 to release to the public well apple has told us that it's coming out next week
on the newsroom where they show the latest news on apple's website it says with next week's release
of ipad os 15.4 and mac os 12.3 universal control is coming out as well and based on this this tells
us it's coming out next week now they haven't specified a date yet typically it's early in
the week monday or tuesday that's when we usually can expect these updates and then we'll move on to
further updates such as watch os 8.6 betas and more but we'll have those later on with
additional features with major changes at wwdc where we will expect something along the lines of
watch west 9 and ios 16 and more so those are all coming up so don't expect any major changes until
june with wwdc and then later releasing in september around the iphone and new watch releases
that's typically what apple does if you've found anything else in this update i'd love to hear from
you in the comments below doesn't seem to be a huge update but there's some nice changes here
and there also if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
this is a new wallpaper that comes along with the new iphone 13 pro and pro max in the new green
color so there's a new green color instead of just sierra blue gold space gray and those sort of
things or graphite so we'll have those new colors as well there's a green and a separate green
for iphone 13 as well if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed
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