hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released watchos 9 beta 2. this is available
to developers and was released alongside ios 16 beta 2 ipad os 16 beta 2 tv os 16 beta 2
home pod os 16 beta 2 and mac os ventura beta 2 all of those are available to developers now
and as you can see this was 427 megabytes on my series 7 apple watch it can vary a little bit
and there are some new changes and updates in this particular update now first let's take a look at
the build number so we can see what version we're actually on you can do that by going into settings
under settings go to general then about and you can see the actual version here it's 2 20r5307h
and that tells you exactly what version we're currently on
now as far as new features in this update well apple talked about some
but never added them in previous updates and the first one you'll see is called medications
medications is something they added in ios 16 beta 1 but they never added into the watch so
you'll see it says the first time you go into it use the health app on iphone to set up
medication logging and within the app you can set up a medication so let me add one we'll add
a simple one you could pick whatever you want but i'll just pick one here you can choose the type
then you can also choose the medication strength and of course ask your doctor if you're taking
any medications and we'll just add a time of day then we choose the shape of the pill there's a
bunch of different other options here as well if you need to choose that and then you can choose
the color as well so hit next you can add details and hit done and now i just added ibuprofen so if
we go to the watch we should have that on our medications app so if we go into medications
you'll see here it showed up in medication so very simple and it will give you reminders as to
when you need to take them you cannot do a whole lot with this here you can just see log is taken
or you could skip it and then hit done so not a whole lot you can do here you have to do it mostly
from the iphone app but it will be nice when watch os is out to everyone with the new features
now workouts has an update as well so if we go into workouts scroll all the way down here under
workouts if you're in running apple talked about a bunch of new features so we'll go down here
and go to outdoor run and we'll start the outdoor run and when you're running now we have a lot of
those features they talked about such as running power ground contact time vertical oscillation
running speed and stride strength and if we scroll down using the digital crown you can see
the different zones for running keep scrolling and there's more options so you'll see a split pace
you've got elevation gained and again your move information and then of course your music to the
right and then to the left you can end the workout so all of this information is here and being
gathered this time around and with all of that additional information added if you're a runner
so it's great to see them add that it wasn't all there in beta 1. if you're using the sleep app
to monitor your sleep maybe you're wearing your watch to bed it actually tracks more information
apple talked about that in the keynote and after you've used it for sleeping you can then go over
to the health app again and see more information about your overall sleep so if we go down to sleep
in our watch app or on our health app on our iphone you'll see that we have additional
information here show more sleep and some of this was in beta 1 but you'll see it's starting to show
the amounts for measurements sleep goal time in bed and time of sleep and then there's stages
awake rem sleep core and deep percentages and more so you'll have all of this information if
you're using it regularly they continue to update this not all of it was working properly in beta
1. with watchos 9 and ios 16 you can now mirror your watch to your iphone to help you control
it a little bit better in accessibility settings so if we go into settings then accessibility then
apple watch mirroring this was not working at all in beta 1. it would show up you could control it
but you couldn't actually see the screen mirrored to the iphone so you'll see we can scroll here we
can maybe switch watch faces and it's controlled on the watch and iphone at the same time and it
mirrors it pretty well so if you want to scroll through maybe we'll select astronomy here
use the digital crown we can use it and it works on both devices at once as you're seeing so
it's mirroring what we're doing we can press the different buttons and so on so this is something
that's actually working with beta 2 where it wasn't with beta 1. also something that seems
to be working much better is siri and dictation so if we activate siri you'll see here that siri
is now working and it should be listening to what i'm saying and then typing it out properly it may
take a moment but it didn't seem to be working very well at all with beta 1. now it seems to be
working properly and hopefully it continues to work well and gets better over time now within
the feedback app on ios if you have beta 2 or any of the betas just go into the feedback app
and you can see the different notes for the current releases under that release the first
thing you'll see is it says under general after updating to watch os 9 your apple watch series 4
or series 5 will recalibrate and then estimate its maximum battery capacity more accurately
so if you have a series 4 or 5 you'll actually have that recalibration apple did that a while
ago with the iphones with the iphone 11 series so now they're doing it with watch four and five
so if we go into our settings go down to battery here under battery it may give you a recalibration
message under battery health and you'll see i'm currently at 100 now in previous versions of
watch os this wasn't necessarily at 100 all the time so it looks like maybe it's recalibrating
and giving us a more accurate reading and as far as overall battery life battery life on this is
not as good as watch os eight versions but it does seem to be okay currently you'll see if i go home
if i scroll up you'll see my battery life is at 93 percent now it's only been off the charger
for about an hour and of course it's on screen here and it's turned on completely all the time
so you're going to have a different experience but either way it does get me through the day but
definitely drains faster than it did on watchos 8. that's typical of early betas so i wouldn't really
put that against it but just keep that in mind if you're wanting to try this out now as far as the
notes are concerned according to the notes there are resolved and known issues there's one resolved
issue for a widget kit modifier and there's 21 known issues so just keep in mind that there's
still a bunch of bugs in this it is an early beta and for example the power saving mode setting
isn't respected during workout so if you're working out and using power savings it will still
track gps and your heart rate so it's going to still use those sensors and not save you any power
also automatic split pace calculation is incorrect and then those ground contact time the new things
such as stride length and vertical oscillation aren't enabled in fitness plus specifically
so those aren't enabled yet in fitness plus but if you're using fitness plus to work out
those won't be there yet they'll be there probably in a future beta and that leads
me to should you install watch os 9 beta 2 and typically if you have an apple watch lying around
you don't mind if something happens to it and that it's not perfect then i would try it out otherwise
i highly recommend against installing this until the public beta is out as there's no way to go
back to a previous version without sending it into apple currently so if this the watch gets bricked
it doesn't work or maybe you're just having a bunch of bugs you want to go back there is no
way for you to do that at home so far so hopefully they update this in the future it did look like we
were going to get some additional options for that but right now there's no way to do that and also
i would expect watch os 8 pretty soon that will go along with ios 15.6 and we can expect maybe a beta
4 or release candidate as soon as today or maybe even next week but i would expect it to release
to the public within a couple weeks where we'll have watch os 8.7 and then of course watch west
9 beta 3 probably within a couple weeks usually apple with early betas is on a two-week schedule
so maybe a couple of weeks from now we'll see that other than that that's all that's in watchos
9 beta 2. of course if you find anything else i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
but it looks to be one of the more stable versions and performance is quite good as
well you've seen maybe a small hiccup there's some frame rate drops here and there but for an
early beta it's actually doing much better than ios in my opinion let me know your experience
and what watch you're using in the comments below and of course if you're curious about
what watch face i'm using this is actually the infograph modular watch face let's try that again
infograph modular with the app lumi in the middle so you'll see here if i go over go over again
the complications this is lumi it's a paid for app it's actually one i bought so that's what's here
in the middle but everything else you can just set using infograph modular if you have any other
things to add though 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 on the iphone i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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