hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and yesterday Apple released watch OS 6.2.8
to the public you can see it came in at 118 megabytes and
it's available for all watch OS six supported devices and so specifically
what we have is a few new features and some security updates now this is a
Series three Apple watch that my daughter is using it's my old one that's
quite scratched up now and let's take a look at the build number and as you can
see here it is 17U63 so this particular build is fairly small
in its update size depending on which device you have and add some new
features for some of the newer Apple watches so the first thing is if you
have a series 5 Apple watch you'll now have the ability to use the digital car
key feature so if you have one of the new BMWs or you're getting one of the
new BMWs that allows you to use your phone to unlock the door just like you
can in iOS 13 point 6 or iOS 14 by setting it up and wallet and then
tapping your phone to the car well you'll be able to do that with your
watch as well as long as it's a series 5 Apple watch unfortunately only series 5
is supported with this particular feature now there's another feature
that's coming to series 4 and newer Apple watches with this update and
that's ECG now this is my series for Apple watch it's actually running watch
OS 7 but it has the same feature so I thought I'd show you
so within watch OS 6 point two point eight is ECG it's been there for a while
in America but it's now available in Bahrain Brazil and South Africa so if
you want to take your ECG you can do that by putting it on your wrist holding
your finger on the digital crown it measures the signal through that and
will actually give you what your rhythm is and if it's irregular it will let you
know as well if you have that feature turned on so for example it will give
you a regular heart rhythm notifications in those same countries of Bahrain
Brazil and South Africa and so there are no new changes as far as the actual
watch faces or anything like that but there are some security updates as well
in fact there's 19 security updates that I counted just like we got with Mac OS
is latest update and iOS there's a bunch of different security updates that
should make your device more secure now I have not known
any difference with performance everything seems to be okay with this
particular update on older watches however battery life is yet to be seen
this particular watch has been used and taken off the charger this morning it's
at 88% since about I think 9 a.m. 8 a.m. 9 a.m. so it's been quite a few hours
about 6 hours at this point and it's doing pretty well so it seems like
battery life should be good and it won't downgrade your performance at least from
what I can see here so it may be better than the previous update so you'll get
those security updates on the older Apple watches and even on my series for
Apple watch I don't get the car key update as well so just keep in mind
you'll need a newer watch to get those features so that's it for watch OS 6
point 2 point 8 now if you'd like to get your hands on a new wallpaper I'll link
one of those in the description as well it's similar to my iOS 13 point 6 video
wallpaper but it's sort of a dark mode version of that so if you'd like to get
your hands on that I'll link it in the description like I normally do if you
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watchbands and everything I get asked that question a lot this is just the
Nike version I believe or it's just the standard a nylon band but that's what
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time