Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday Apple released watchOS 8.3 RC
or release candidate. This is the final version of watchOS 8.3.
That will be released to the public probably in a week or so.
We'll talk more about that in a moment,
but this particular update does not have a ton of changes in it compared to 8.1.
You you'll see, it came in at about 196 megabytes. That's on my series,
seven apple watch, and they skipped over watchOS 8.2.
Now,
along with this apple released iOS 15.2 RC iPadOS 15.2
RC and macOS 12.1 RC.
Those are all available now as well to developers and beta testers. Now,
as far as if you're a beta tester,
and you're wondering if you should remove the beta profile yet,
I would hold off as sometimes there is a release candidate too,
although that's extremely rare, especially for a watch.
So this will probably be the final version and you just had it early,
but we'll only know that when it releases to the public,
now we can take a look at the build number and that will tell us which version
we're on. And if it's going to be the same as it's released to the public.
So if we go to settings under settings, go to general, then about, under,
about, you can see the build number is 19S55.
And this particular build, like I said, is not a huge update,
but it does have some changes in it or new features. Now,
one thing apple released earlier this week,
and that was to recognize product red and its fight against aids is some new
watch faces. And you can get that by going to Apple's web website,
and you'll see a bunch of different watch faces here.
They all are sort of celebrating product red and there's six different versions
of similar watch faces we've had, but now with red. So you've got this red,
white, and black Stripe version,
and then just a simple red dial and then some numbers in red.
So all of those are available. Now. Now, if you want those,
you can go to safari and I'll link this in the description below,
but it's apple.com/product red.
You can see there and then you can install these particular watch faces.
If you'd like to see those and then read all about what product red is all
about. So that's something that's newer while it's not part of this update.
It is something that apple released earlier this past week or a week , ago,
or so now, as far as new features, well,
the first thing has to do with apple music,
voice plans that was added with the iPhone as well.
Where if you use apple music, you can use the simplified voice plan.
That's 4 99 a month.
And you'll just be able to use Siri to activate that the support for that has
been added in watch us 8.3. They've also added app privacy report.
Now they've added this to the watch under settings. If we go under settings,
we'll go back since we're already in about, and if we scroll down,
we'll just keep going down here. You'll see privacy.
And if we scroll all the way to the bottom, it says app privacy report,
tap on that. And it talks about it. Some,
and then you can turn it on and this will show you everything that your watch is
doing. What's what it's accessing,
what different app data is being shared and more so you can turn that on or off.
And it says, report information will appear as apps and clock face complications are used.
App privacy report information is stored locally on this apple watch.
If you turn it, turn off app privacy report,
this information will be deleted from your apple watch. If you uninstall an app,
the information reported for that app will be deleted.
So it's just putting on privacy report here that you can access on your phone as
well. So that has been added in this update.
Now there's also a new splash screen. The first time you go into the app store.
So if we go into the app store here, go into it.
It just says what's new on the app store. Discover curated, watch faces,
learn how developers may handle your data on project pages.
And then you just continue.
And now you can see all of the different apps that it's suggesting.
So nothing particularly new there,
but it's a new splash screen that they're showing now,
as far as features that apple mentions that's about it.
There is a fix here as well. However,
quite a few people are seeing a nice feature that's available on the series
seven series six and se watches. They're now seeing on series four and five,
although apple does not mention that they enabled this and that has to do with
assistive touch.
And those are the controls where you can use your wrist to control the motion.
You can do different gestures to control your screen,
and you can turn that on simply by going into the watch app,
you can do it on the watch as well. But let me just show you here.
We'll go into watch and let's find it here.
Under the watch app app, go to accessibility under accessibility.
We have a assistive touch. If you have a assistive touch,
you have a series four and five or newer.
You can turn it on and then you can use different hand gestures to control the
watch. This is a feature that was there with iOS 15, apple showed off.
It's a great feature to be able to use at one handed or just from some
assistance.
So that's available for some people they're saying on series four and series
five. I haven't verified that myself,
but I've had a few people send me screenshots showing that it's working.
So I'd love to hear from you in the comments below if it's working for you. Now,
another thing they've fixed though,
with this particular update or the only thing they've fixed is an issue where
notifications may interrupt mindfulness sessions unexpectedly for some users.
So if you're using the mindfulness app, maybe you're sort of meditating.
You're using that and the notifications come in and interrupt you.
That should not be happening anymore.
So those are the major changes in watch OS 8.3 RC. However,
there are security updates as well has not specified what they are yet as
they typically do that when it's released to the public.
And if you're wondering when this will release to the public, well,
based on what we had last year, I would expect Monday or Tuesday. So currently,
maybe in a week or so at this point, maybe less than a week,
we don't have an exact date as apple has not said,
but based on what we had last year,
I would expect them to release it on the 13th or 14th based off of last year,
last year, they released it on the 14th.
So we could see it sometime around then, but within a week or so of today.
And then also maybe have a new beta in the few days following,
maybe on the 16th, like they did last year as well.
So we could see all of those things next week. Now,
as far as overall battery life,
I've only been using this for a little while now.
So I can't really say if it's going to last days,
it does take a few days to know for sure.
But typically it gets me through a day and a half since removing this from the
charger I'm down to 98%, which it's only been about a half hour or so,
but typically, unless you're working out a lot and streaming music from this,
they typically will get you through the day without a problem.
Sometimes two to three days, depending on what your overall usage is.
But generally I get about a day and a half out of this watch as far as
performance while being a series seven,
having a similar processor is a series six. I really don't have any issues.
If I go into things like compass or go into different apps,
they tend to load pretty quickly, go into calculator.
It's not anything I had open go back into the app store seems to be plenty fast.
And I wouldn't expect this update to affect performance since it's just a minor
bug fix with a few additional features.
So that's everything in this particular update, not a ton of different,
but if you found anything else I'd love to hear from you in the comments below.
And also if you have a assist of touch enabled on series four or series five
apple watch, I would love to hear from you there as well.
If you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper I have on my iPhone, of course,
I'll link that in the description like I normally do.
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Thanks for watching. This is Aaron. I'll see you next time.