hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and apple released watchos 8.6 rc or release candidate this
is the final version that should be released to developers and beta testers before it's released
to the public as long as apple finds no additional issues this will be the final version now this
came in at 139 megabytes that's on my series 7 apple watch but it can vary between 100 to 200
megabytes depending on the watch you have now let's take a look at the build number and talk
about what's new so we'll go over to our settings and you'll see i'm already under the build number
but if you want to find that you can go to general then about and you'll see the build number is 19t
572 and this particular build does include a new feature and then also a couple features depending
on where you live now the first thing is pretty big if you use accessibility so that can be found
on your watch or on the iphone under the watch app so if we go on the iphone under the watch app
under watch if we go down to accessibility under accessibility go to voiceover under voiceover
scroll down to hand gestures and go to the customization of the gesture section we now have
the option for magic tab this is super helpful for those of you that use ipads or iphones now we have
it on the apple watch with 8.6 so you can double tap with two fingers and you'll get some new
options so that's something they've brought to the apple watch with 8.6 now they've also updated this
with ecg features for new countries so if you're in different countries using ecg maybe you want to
check your heart rate or measure your ecg overall you can now do that in mexico so that's something
they've added in 8.6 for mexico as well as a regular heart rhythm so that's something
they've added also now as far as bug fixes or anything else well apple hasn't mentioned
anything regarding that however they did mention that there will be security updates but they so
far have not updated their security website typically they won't do this until the final
release is released to the public so you can see the apple security website and if we scroll down
they only have the last version of watch os 8.5.1 so that's what's currently available right now we
don't know what the actual security updates will be until after apple releases it to the public
so we'll look for that as soon as we know now as far as when to expect the release to the public
well typically we can expect these usually the following week unless they find additional issues
we haven't really seen a watchos rc2 very often so we can usually expect this typically around
probably monday or tuesday of next week so maybe the 16th or 17th of may that's typically what i
would expect with this update then later that week we'll probably see a watch os 8.7 update
as well so normally apple will release all of these updates at the same time such as ios
15.5 and tv os 15.5 and mac os 12.4 all of those are expected to be released along with watch os
8.6 and then we'll move on to ios 15.6 betas watch os 8.7 betas probably later next week then later
once we get to june we'll have ios 16 beta 1 along with watch os 9 beta 1. that will be on june 6th
where they'll release the first betas of those we'll see all the new features then so at this
point don't expect too many new features until we get watchos 9 and ios 16 and ipad os 16 and so on
we'll have betas with those along with watch os 8 betas all the way up until september
where we maybe get a new apple watch series 8 and a new watch os 9. so that's typically what
apple does every single year you can expect the same sort of rollout this year as well
so there's not a whole lot going on in watch os 8.6 just three features overall but of course
if you found anything else i haven't mentioned in the video please let me know in the comments below
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