hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8.4.2 to the public
this is available for all watch os 8 supported devices meaning the series 3 all the way up to
the latest series 7 device so the good thing is this time around it's also supporting the series
3 where the previous update last week did not so it's bringing all of them up to 8.4.2 so we're
all on the same version however if you're a beta tester and testing out watch os 8.5 you won't see
this update and you'll have to wait until the next betas and the final release in order to get 8.5
you cannot roll back without bringing this to apple and having them install it for you
so if you're on the betas you'll have to wait for the next beta version however if you're on 8.4.1
or older you should see the update here and you can update from the watch app or you can update
directly from the watch itself so if we go into the watch app in the watch app if we go to general
then software update this is where you can check for an update you'll need your watch to be over 50
charged and then put on a charger now along with this apple also released ios 15.3.1 ipad os 15.3.1
and mac os 12.2.1 those are all available now now this particular update came in at a fairly small
98 megabytes on my series 6 apple watch so this is the series 6 and it's a fairly small update it
was on 8.4.1 before now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new
and we'll go to settings here so we'll go to settings and the build number tells us
what version we're actually on so that we can make sure we're on the most recent version
so if we go to general then we go to about you can see the version number there 19s 553 that lets you
know you're up to date and you're good to go now as far as what they've fixed in this particular
issue well last week when they released 8.4.1 we thought it was to resolve the issue with the apple
wallet syncing different cards between the wallet sometimes caused a problem and some of the cards
would not sync properly or show up so maybe you added a card on the apple wallet on your iphone
for some reason for some users it was not showing up however this seems to have resolved that issue
and multiple people have said that it's now showing up properly so that's a good sign
also fitness plus quite a few people had messaged me and said that fitness plus was having a problem
or one person messaged me i've seen others complain about it and fitness plus when you
start it from your apple watch and maybe send it to your tv with an apple tv so you can start
a workout and sync your data it would just crash the app and this now is working for many users so
it looks like they resolved that issue but they didn't mention it specifically
now one other thing that seems to be an issue for some people is the unity lights watch face this
is a watch face apple introduced a couple weeks ago or a week or so ago to celebrate
black history month and you can get it on the apple website or within the apple watch app
however after installing this update if you are already using it some people are saying that it's
blank and you can't use it for those that were experiencing it what you need to do is
actually delete the watch face and then re-add it from the apple watch or from the app then it
should show up again and work properly there are a few people saying that it's not showing properly
still so maybe you want to try re-adding it from the apple website and seeing if it will show up
after scanning that app clip so hopefully it's showing for you this is a bug for some people
but it seems to be working for most people after deleting it and re-adding it earlier today apple
actually had a press release or a news release about air tags and if you have an air tag many
people have been concerned about being tracked without them knowing about it apple's released
this privacy statement about air tags saying an update on air tag and unwanted tracking
and as you can see it has a bunch of information where they've worked with law enforcement
advancements coming to air tag and find my network there'll be new privacy warnings during the airtag
setup new alerts for your airpods and more so this gives you more information about it
if you're curious about it concerned about you being tracked they'll update find my to better
let you know if there's one that's not one that belongs to you nearby so that's something coming
in a future update probably with ios 15.4 now in addition to the things i've already
mentioned apple also updated security and if we go to apple's security website and scroll down
you can see that we have different versions of the recent updates so we have a safari update mac os
monterey as well as ios and ipad os but with watch os 8.4.2 they don't mention anything specifically
in fact it says this update has no published cve entries that does not mean they didn't
put security patches within it they just haven't shared exactly what they are so there's definitely
security updates in it and for that reason i would highly recommend you install this update
not only does it fix and address a few bugs with wallet and other things it gives you a security
update as well i wish they would specify this but it's something they haven't let us know it does
not have the same issue as the other updates today or yesterday by the time you're watching this
where ios 15.3.1 and the others had issues with a safari or webkit exploit they've since patched so
this does not seem to have that same bug but they must have fixed something else as far as overall
stability well it does take a few days to know a hundred percent but it does seem to be quite good
as far as stability apps are working i haven't had any crashes i haven't had any issues with
the heart rate sensor or anything else so that's great and also performance seems to be quite good
as well so if we go into the camera remote you'll see it opens up right away on my iphone and if we
go into maybe another app i haven't opened recently give it a second for the compass to
load and now it's working properly so it looks like performance is quite good and battery life
should be decent as well so battery life on this some people did report problems with 8.4.1
as well as charging i did not experience those myself so it seems like they're fine for some
people and not everyone so hopefully it resolves it for you but you'll see i'm currently at 100
since i had to update the device hopefully one day we can update it without plugging it in if we're
over 50 battery like we can on our iphones but if we take a look at our settings here we'll go back
go down to battery and like i said this is my series six apple watch if we go to battery health
i'm at 88 after a year or so so i wore this for an entire year we're at 88 so it's doing well
there and typically gets me through a day now if you're using this heavily to work out listening to
apple music and things like that sometimes it can drain it much faster also if it's using a lot of
cellular data however it seems to be pretty stable and quite good now watch os is one of the more
stable updates out there so i wouldn't expect too much to change for you and once we get to watch
os 8.5 then we can expect some new features like emoji and additional stability or maybe
bug fixes and more and as far as when to expect watch os 8.5 well it's currently in beta
and based on what we know so far i would expect it to release sometime in the second week of
march based off of an apple event that we think will be on march 8th so if that happens we can
expect a couple more betas maybe another beta next week with beta 3 beta 4 and then in the
first week of march maybe a release candidate and if that's solid enough and steady enough
or stable enough then they'll release it to the public we don't have these dates confirmed 100
by apple but typically that's what they do so we can expect that probably in a few weeks or
in the first part of march where we'll see that update around that apple event if that holds
true so that's everything in this particular update it's just another bug fix it's kind of
a surprise since they released it just a week after the previous one or so but it's out to
everyone and at least it brings the series 3 apple watch up to date with everyone else
if you've found anything else though in it i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and
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