hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8.5.1 to the public this
is available to all watch os 8 supported devices from the series 3 all the way up to the latest
series 7 that i have here and this particular update was not a huge update it came in at
78.4 megabytes on my series 7 apple watch and it's available for everyone now now if you're
not seeing it and you previously had the beta profile installed because you were testing the
beta updates or maybe you're a developer make sure you remove that profile and then check again and
you should see it available now now watch os 8.5.1 was released alongside ios 15.4.1 ipad os 15.4.1
as well as homepod and tv os 15.4.1 and also mac os 12.3.1 apple released all of those updates
yesterday now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new
so we'll go down to settings and under settings we'll go to general and the build number just
tells us what version we're actually on then we'll go to about and you can see it says version 8.5.1
19t 252 so that's the actual version number or build number and it lets you know you're
on the latest version if you've got that number now as far as actual bug fixes and changes well
this is a 0.1 update which means it's going to be a very small update to address issues as far as
bugs and more and as you can see apple has only said watch os 8.5.1 includes security updates
and bug fixes for your apple watch so what that means is they fixed a few bugs and they haven't
said specifically but i suspect this has to do with the charging on the series 7 apple watch
some people were saying it was not fast charging so when you put it on the charger
wait for it here to charge they were saying it wasn't charging like it should sometimes
it wouldn't charge at all other times it wouldn't charge maybe only to about 50 percent
i had some odd issues myself but this could address it it looks like it has i had it on the
charger last night and it appears to have fixed it since ios 15.4.1 addresses battery specifically
i wish apple would have told us but they haven't said anything but it does seem to have fixed this
issue at least for me and i'd love to hear if it fixed it for you as far as additional updates in
watch os 8.5.1 well there is no other updates that i was able to find there's no other watch
faces or anything like that with the previous update we gained watch faces that match the new
spring cases but so far i haven't seen anything as far as that goes so as far as that there is some
world time things i was looking through because they actually changed the naming of kiev on the
iphone as far as the world clock but i was not able to find it here and so they changed
it a little bit there was nothing to mention here so i was looking through that but again
no other things that have been changed this is just a bug fix update as well as security update
so if we go into safari you can see here if we go to apple's security website we just scroll down
watch os 8.5.1 has a security update but it just says apple watch series 3 and later this update
has no published cve entries however there are security updates in it as they have mentioned it
they just haven't mentioned which ones they are so they definitely patch something here
now that leads me to should you install watch os 8.5.1 and at this point i would say absolutely
it's for security updates and bug fixes so whether that's fixing the charging issue or
other security updates apple's not mentioning specifically i would definitely recommend it
i wouldn't expect any changes as far as battery life or performance or anything else
since this is a pretty minor update so if we go into battery life you can see here
i'm at 94 percent i would expect this to easily get me through the day like before but if you are
seeing battery drain that's a little bit abnormal or faster than you're used to apple typically
says give it up to 48 hours for everything to stabilize and you'll be back to normal so
after a couple days i would expect it to be better if you're not seeing good battery life already
as far as performance performance seems to be nice and fast whether that be opening different apps
such as calculator things i don't use regularly or maybe going into the app store you'll see it
takes just a moment to load but in general it seems to be performing well so this is taking
a while to load it could be my connection there we go and i haven't opened it on the watch in a
very long time so there we go everything's nice and fast at this point now that it's loaded so
again i really wouldn't worry about performance or anything like that and of course as far as future
updates many people want to know when are we going to see significant changes and things like that
well i wouldn't expect anything until watch os 9. every year apple announces wwdc or the worldwide
developer conference they send out invites to those that are invited to come to the actual event
and then also developers can typically go if it's going to be in person at the time of this
video apple hasn't sent those invites out yet but once they do typically we'll have an event in june
and then they'll show what the next version is like such as ios 16 and watch os 9 and mac os 13
so the new versions will be shown in june then we'll have betas typically all the way up until
september where they'll typically launch it alongside a new watch and a new iphone so normally
that's how apple does things so we can expect some new features with that version but so far with
watch os 8 i wouldn't expect other changes we should see some updates with watch os 8.5
and 8.5.3 or even 8.6 probably all the way up until september as well now as far as
this watch face a lot of you want to know what this is so this is just infograph modular so as
you can see here it's infograph modular and if i go into let's go into edit go into my
complications you can see this is the lumi app this is a paid app that just tells you
when sunrise and sunset is to help you get the best photos and videos throughout the day
so it just looks really nice here i've had this set for a long time so infograph modular with
lumi in the middle and then of course i have the different complications around such as temperature
of course messages time music and activity so that's just what i have set here and there's
not a whole lot more to talk about with watch os 8.5.1 it's a minor update and anytime there's a
0.1 update there's not going to be a huge change but definitely some valuable bug fixes if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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