Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple announced to watch os 8. watch os 8 beta 1
is now available to developers and the public beta will probably be out in july as that's when they
said ios 15 would be available to public beta testers as well so along with this apple also
announced ios 15 ipad os 15 beta 1 as well as tv os 15 beta 1 and mac os 12 monterey
so all of those are in beta 1 and if you're a developer you can download and try them out now
now the good thing is the supported devices with watchos 8 are the same as watch os 7.
so if you have a series 3 or newer up to a series 6 apple watch like this one
you'll have support for your device you may not have all of the features but you'll at least be
able to install watch os 8 on your device now this came in at a pretty large 1.2 gigabytes to install
on the series 6 apple watch it can vary depending on which version you're coming from
but the overall install did take a little while and now it's working fine and let's talk about
the features and the first thing is the always on display if you have a series 5 or series 6
apple watch you'll have it always on display and it will now allow for more apps to work
with it such as alarms maps and stopwatch or if you have a third party app they can opt to make
it work as well now i don't believe the feature is working just yet so if i reset this and hit start
it doesn't seem to be working with stopwatch for example it just goes to a black display
but it should work by the time it's released apple sometimes doesn't finish all of the features
and with this they did update one of the watch faces however that's not available yet either
so if we slide over you'll see i have a photos watch face they did update a photos with portrait
mode watch face but it's not available yet so if you go and add new you'll see that there's a new
watch face selector here so it gives a little more detail and so there's a new watch face selector
and you can go through all of the different ones but with photos there will be a portrait photo
mode with a multi-layer photo with depth so that's not available yet but it will be available in the
future so they did show it off it looks like this and it was shown at wwdc but it's not available
just yet so they've changed the way the watch face picker looks as well as added that watch face
now along with that they've redesigned an app so we'll go back here and if we scroll up to music
music gets a redesign now they've changed it slightly it doesn't look terribly different but
you've got your different albums here you can scroll through and then of course your library
and other things so they did give it a small redesign it's a little bit updated just to be
more consistent with what we have across ios for example so not a huge change but it is updated a
little bit with recently added you'll see it's a little bit choppy there when i'm scrolling
but recently added and more so that has been updated they also updated the watch with a
new section called mindfulness so mindfulness is more of a category and if we go into mindfulness
we'll hit done here you'll see that there's two different things we have reflect and breathe
breathe was there before under its own app but now it's been moved under mindfulness so if we go into
breathe they've changed the animation a little bit so we'll wait for it here and i'll show you
that so it will take just a moment and you can see the animation has changed a little bit so
they've changed the animation slightly and then like i said they've added a new feature called
mindful under mindfulness called reflect so it says take a moment to reflect
it says remind yourself of a recent challenge you've overcome think about the traits you have
you have that helped so this changes every time and it sort of gives you something to think about
to get your mind off what maybe you're working on and you'll see there's a nice animation and this
changes as well so it just gives you a minute to reflect on something to try and get your mind off
of whatever you're doing to relax a little bit so it goes along with breathe under mindfulness
now they've updated the sleep app as well sleep can now track your respiratory rate so if you're
using the sleep app and you want it to regularly track your respiratory rate you can do that so
if we go to the health app on the iphone on the iphone under health you'll see that we have all of
our normal summary here however if we go to browse and then we go down to respiratory scroll down you
have respiratory rate now if you're using it for sleep it can track this and keep track of it and
sort of notice trends based off your respiratory rate when you're sleeping and moving and how
you're breathing so that's something they've added with this as well they've also added walking
steadiness and this is something they talked about with ios 15 for example so they've added that and
it goes along with mobility and under mobility you can set up walking steadiness so maybe you
have someone that maybe has a little bit trouble walking you can actually set this up to help them
realize maybe when they need to sit down for example because they're becoming very unsteady
and you'll see here it says your iphone can measure your walking steadiness and send a
notification if you're at an elevated risk of falling in the next year so it will let you know
hopefully it notifies you right away but it gives you an understanding of what it is and you can see
more about it so that's something that's a little bit different now along with ios 15 you have new
focus modes so if you scroll down here you'll see there's do not disturb like we have before and we
have different modes such as work i have a focus mode i set up on my iphone called work and we can
turn it on until i leave based on where i'm at so you'll see here that if we go back it says work
and it has a new little icon here so it's a focus mode that you can set up to help
you focus on what matters most so it will stop notifications from things you don't care about
and you can set it up and customize it now in the future it can actually notify someone that you're
working and you can get back to them later so you have that in this update now they've also updated
the home app and in the home app we'll go into office for example they've updated it to give
you the status of your different things at the top along with intercom so if you have a homepod
mini or a homepod you can use it as an intercom it's giving you the status of different devices
so it can't find one of them if we go into this one you can see there's different outlets here
on that outlet and if we go back you'll see we even can go down and go to cameras now so if we
go into cameras this is the room i'm actually in you can see that camera and you can set different
defaults and things like that so they've updated the home app to be more useful and give you more
information right up front now it also will notify you if maybe you have a home kit enabled doorbell
and door lock if someone rings the doorbell for example it can pop up on your screen and give
you a suggestion of maybe unlocking that lock so we'll use that as intelligence and sort of
give you the idea that maybe you want to do this so that's something a little bit new
now the next thing is a new app called find items now this goes along with air tags so we have
find devices just like we did before find items and find people it's basically the find my app
with the sections at the bottom on iphone split up into different apps on watch os so
if we go into find items you can see there's my backpack tap on this it actually locates it on
the map says where i am and it's with me and if i scroll down i can play a sound get directions
notify when found notify one left behind and it says lost mode enabled on 430 so i
was trying that out when i first got them so that's a new app that's included with watch
os eight now they've also included some new workouts so if we go down to workouts here
go all the way down work out there should be a couple new workouts that they've included with
watch os eight so we'll scroll down and we should have two new ones and you'll see one of the new
ones is pilates so they've added that as far as a workout goes and then tai chi so those are two new
workouts that they've added also if you use apple fitness plus they've added seven new workouts
to fitness plus with jeanette jenkins and there's going to be an artist spotlight series with
music artists such as lady gaga and more later this month so if you're using the fitness app
you'll see those there so we'll go to fitness and fitness plus you'll have new updates to this
later this month with different things for maybe featured artists and that's not here yet but it
will be added a little bit later now they've also updated the photos app and in the photos app you
have memories and then you have featured photos and favorites so far featured is not working for
me if we go into memories we now have a new photo mosaic so you can see it looks a little
bit different here we can tap on those and look at them if we want and of course share this and
so photos has been updated a little bit and then if we share it we can share with regular friends
or family and if we scroll down we now have the option to share with messages or mail so
we can share that photo to either one of those and within messages and mail there's some updates as
far as sending messages also so maybe i'll go into messages and maybe add a message and under add a
message we now have the option to dictate here we can scribble or even type or add emoji here
all built into the same interface so we'll just do a quick message hi how are you today
we'll hit done we'll go back into that message and if i tap on this we can delete part of that here
or we can scroll through to find what we want it to say or if we tap again we can use the digital
crown to more finely tune where we actually want to go in and type so that has been updated in
messages so we can go back and forth we can also add an emoji here so you can add your latest emoji
you can add multiple emoji even though this doesn't make any sense you can add multiple
emoji add a gif or gif if you want to so we can go cancel this and we'll just go back here
to messages and under messages we have this little app icon or app shelf tap on this we can add a
gif or gif so we'll tap on this here and now we can select from whichever one we want and we can
search as well so we have all of those built into messages basically the same thing we have with
iphone so we have those options now now on ios 15 apple updated the weather app and in weather
they've updated it with some new animations and more but they've added some new notifications
on your watch for that such as next hour precipitation and it supports severe storm
notifications so it will notify you on your watch maybe you're away from your phone it will let
you know there so that's something that's updated they've also added support for ultra wide band car
keys for example and then also live headphone audio exposure so maybe you're using headphones
and you want to see what's actually going on with noise so if i play some music here and i put an
airpod in and i'm playing a song in my airpod pro and if i go back to the main screen swipe up go
down to the audio notifications you'll see it's showing me the actual noise level in real time
so it's keeping track of that and letting me know what it is i can turn it up and down of course and
you'll see the decibels change so that's something that's new in this update now with watch os 8 and
ios 15 they've added the ability to use hand gestures to control your apple watch for those
that may not be able to touch it with another hand for example so there's a new accessibility
feature so first if we go into our iphone and then we go to the watch app go to accessibility
and under accessibility we have assistive touch so we can turn on assistive touch and it says turn on
assistive touch it allows you to navigate apple watch using one hand gestures so we'll try it out
and you can pinch tap the pointer finger to pinch double pinch tap pointer finger to thumb twice
quickly clench close your hand into a fist or double clench close your hand into a fist
twice quickly so we'll try it out on apple watch so i'll put the apple watch on my wrist
and you'll see here let's see if it works
and it says by tapping your pointer finger and thumb it says pinch recognized we'll hit done
double pinch so i'll pinch twice it recognize that double pinch recognized it says clench
so we'll clench our fist we'll try a whole hand there it says let's give it another go
clench recognized and then there will be a double clench so we can do that
we'll try it again and it recognized that so it actually works there so try it out on apple watch
we'll go back and we'll turn it on now on the home screen you can use this as well so if i pinch
it selects if i double pinch it goes up double pinch again it goes to the next complication so
you can do that and then you can double clench and it goes to different options so press crown
dismiss you'll see there's different options here so it's a little bit tricky to get used to
but it's very helpful if you needed this option to go through different things so eventually you'll
be able to do more control right now it looks like you can just go through things and we'll
double clench select that and we're back home and again we're back so that gives you an idea
it recognizes those gestures now there's two other small changes one is an enhanced family setup
feature and then also there's a new school mode animation so if we go into school mode it looks
like it's a little bit different so it's a school mode you don't have access to everything and if i
want to go home you have to turn the digital crown to exit so it looks a little bit different tap on
exit and we're out so those are all of the major changes in watchos 8. it's possible there's other
small changes as well throughout but so far that's what i've discovered and the apple's talked about
and as you can see here under about we're on version eight so those of you that were wondering
the build number it's 19r 5266q so it's and it's a version that needs quite a few updates until it's
out and talking about when it will be out well this should be out in September usually along the
lines of iphone 13's release along with ios 15 for example and that leads me to should you install
watch os 8 well i would say not unless you have an extra one or you're willing to send it into
apple if you have a problem there is no way to go back connecting this to a computer for example so
it's not easy to go back to a previous version if you're having problems with it you generally
have to send it to apple they can wipe it and then refresh it for you and it can take a few days so i
don't normally recommend watch os betas to anyone unless maybe the public beta is out where it's a
little bit more stable so i might want to wait until then as far as battery life while i took
this off the charger this morning it seems to be okay it's a 82 percent it's been off the charger
for three or four hours at this point and it seems to be okay it's been on quite a bit for this video
so that will bring the battery down a bit but in general it seems to be pretty fast you've seen how
it responds here it's missing a couple features but hopefully we'll have those in the next beta
but so far it's doing well if there's anything else you've found let me know in the comments
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time