hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released watchos 8.7 to the public this
is available to all watch os 8 supported devices from the series 3 all the way up to the series
7 apple watch and this was released alongside ios 15.6 ipad os 15.6 mac os 12.5 tv os 15.6
and home pod os 15.6 all of those are available at the same time everywhere around the world
now this particular update came in at 570 megabytes on my series six apple watch this
is the titanium one i used in videos quite some time ago since my regular one is on watch os 9.
and if you're on watchos 9 you won't have this update as you'll be on a newer version
also if you're on watch os 8.7 betas and you updated to the latest release candidate you also
won't have the update because you're already on it you just have it a week early or so
so if you wanted to get out of the beta program just remove the beta profile overall now let's
take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go into our settings here
under settings we'll go to general then we'll go to about and as you can see the build number is
19u6 the build number just tells us that we're on the current version that's available to everyone
and as long as you have the same version number you'll know you're on the latest version
now as far as what's new in this update as you can see from apple's notes here what they've
said is this update includes improvements bug fixes and important security updates
now typically along with this they'll give us a long list of things they've updated and fixed
however this time around they haven't said a single thing so we know it's
improved they didn't add any features but they added bug fixes and security updates
and i think mostly this is probably for security updates as there's quite a few to be found
if we go to apple's security website on their security website all you need to do is scroll down
in on the page and you'll see the recent ones released today and go to watch os 8.7 as you
can see here if we scroll down there's over 25 of them and if i counted properly there's 26 or so so
as you can see everything from apfs as we scroll down we have apple neural engine if we keep going
file system events gpu drivers kernel and much much more so quite a few security updates here
and let's go through one of them so you can see what they've changed so for the apple neural
engine for example it says available for devices with apple neural engine so this is for the series
4 and later the impact is what the problem was an app may be able to break out of its sandbox
meaning it could interact with other apps and it's not supposed to the description is the issue was
addressed with improved checks and as we go down again you'll see maybe with gpu drivers
an app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges to fix it a memory corruption
issue was addressed with improved validation and then they also give the cve number or the
number referring to what was actually resolved and the person that submitted the issue
so there's a ton of them i'll link those in the description if you want to read through those you
can see those for ios and everything else also now as far as what you're going to experience on this
of course security updates you're not going to see but whether or not you should install it well if
you're on the current version of watch os i would definitely install it as that's a lot of security
updates and different things that they've patched however anything else seems to be okay as far as
the battery life so far on this watch you'll see i'm at 81 now i installed this this afternoon it's
been on for about probably 13 to 14 hours at this point and it's actually doing quite well i haven't
been using it a whole lot since i've been using a different watch but in standby it's drained down
to 81 since it was doing some background activity however it charged quite quickly as i know quite a
few people are concerned with the charging speed as that was a problem for some of you but this
actually charged pretty quickly even though technically it doesn't have the fast charging
if we go into settings and go to our battery life we'll go over to battery and go down to
where we have battery here under battery give it a moment you'll see again it's at 81
my battery health on this device is at 88 now this is a little bit older device it's almost two years
old at this point i used it for an entire year full time and then used it part time here and
there as it's titanium and super light so it's really nice and overall it seems to be holding
up well now unfortunately there's no easy way to change the battery in this so as it gets lower
we'll maybe investigate that in a separate video overall performance though you can
see everything's pretty quick as i go through different apps go into different things such as
weather or activity and more everything loads nice and quick and if i open something i don't
regularly open such as overcast you'll see that's pretty quick but it is loading a little bit here
give it just a moment and you'll see it loaded and maybe we'll go into the noise app again
that wasn't open and now it is so it seems to be performing as i would expect with this particular
device no issues there basically the same cpu we have in the series seven so no issues as
far as performance now finally if those of you wanted to know what watch face this is as i get
asked that all the time if we press and hold you'll see it says infograph modular this is
infograph modular with the app called lumi in the middle so if we go over to our complications tap
on the middle you'll see it's called lumi this was a paid for app i actually purchased myself
and then you can set things such as countdown to golden hours sun timers count down to moon times
and more so you've got all of those options for lumi if you want to use this
countdown to sunrise and that's for photographers for the best time to take video or photography
around golden hour so that's all this is pretty simple and that's what i've been using now with
this update of course we didn't have any major changes most of those will be coming with watchos
9 so we already know what a lot of those features are i have separate videos about that
and you can expect that sometime in mid-september typically around the time apple announces the new
iphone 14 and 14 pro pro max models and also the apple watch series 8. so usually around that time
we'll see those new updates however we could get one or two more updates before that release in
september with a watch os 8.7.1 or watch os 8.8 we should know that very soon within either this
week or next if we have ios 5.7 betas where apple typically does one more in august so we'll have
to wait and see but you can expect something like that very soon now if you found anything else in
watchos 8.7 that i haven't mentioned i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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