hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released watchos 8.5 to the public this is
available to all watchos 8 supported devices from the series 3 apple watch all the way to the series
7 apple watch and this was released alongside ios 15.4 ipad os 15.4 tv os 15.4 home pod os 15.4
and mac os 12.3 now if you're a beta tester or developer this is the same version that you had
with the rc so 8.5 rc is the exact same version so you won't have an update however if you're
wondering how you can update you can go to the apple watch app go to general and then software
update and you should see the update there once you have the update you can just install it as
though it was the same as an ios update you can also check for the update on the watch itself
now this update came in at 159 megabytes that's on the series 7 apple watch so it's not a huge
update but does have a few changes and updates in it let's take a look at the build number and talk
about what's new so we'll go to our settings then under settings go to general then about and you
can see the build number here 19 t242 this lets us know that this is the same version as the rc and
also the public release as well with this update comes a few different changes and the first one
has to do with mail so if we go back into the apple watch app go down we'll go down until it
says mail we have a new option to always load content directly you can load content directly
on the watch now if you want to do that also if you subscribe to icloud plus on your iphone
and maybe you're using private relay along with those mail features you'll see here it now says
hide ip address in previous versions it didn't hide the ip address of the mail or anything else
so this has been updated and it's letting you know so it says hide ip address organize by threads
load remote images don't ask before deleting alerts from vips and thread notifications and
show alerts so that's everything that it's going to have there now we also have some updated watch
faces and these are to match the latest watch bands and cases for apple's spring collection
such as blue fog that we have here so you can go into your different settings and you'll see here
we have blue fog so you can match that and then of course it matches on the watch so with the
update we have all of those compatibilities so that we can match our watch band directly if we
want this color or others as well so you'll see there's various different updates but we have
dark cherry english lavender flamingo nectarine eucalyptus bright green and then also blue fog so
we have that available in watch os 8.5 we now have the ability to authorize apple tv purchases and
subscriptions so maybe you want to subscribe to a new app or maybe a new show or movie comes out and
you want to purchase that you can now authorize that directly from your watch within the health
app if you're in the eu and you're on ios 15.4 and watch os 8.5 you now have the option to add
digital health certificates within the health app so maybe a vaccination record and then this
carries across to apple wallet where you can add a pass to show on your apple watch as well so that's
in the eu it's been in other places prior to this also if you use a watch that has ecg and can warn
you of maybe atrial fibrillation identification that has been enhanced with this update so maybe
you're measuring your heart rate with ecg now it's been improved to give you better identification of
that and it's updated in the united states chile hong kong south africa and many regions in other
places as well i'll leave a link so you can check that out where it's available as well apple today
released a support document stating that maybe your apple watch stops responding and then instead
shows an exclamation point with a circle around it both in the color red if you're having that
issue you may be able to recover it now with your iphone after updating to watch os 8.5 and newer so
this is something we haven't seen before and hopefully means maybe we'll be able to fix the
watch if we have a problem on our own instead of bringing it to an apple service center
so as you can see here's the support document and it says if your watch shows an iphone and a watch
or a red exclamation point so if we scroll down this gives you an idea of what it might look like
a red exclamation point with a circle around it and it says in some instances your apple watch
might show a red exclamation point if this happens double-click the side button then follow the steps
above and as you can see up here it says if your apple watch with watch os 8.5 or later
displays an animation showing a watch and iphone being brought closer together follow these steps
and as you can see we have the option to recover the apple watch this is something we haven't seen
before so watch os 8.5 ios 15.4 it needs to be connected to wi-fi and have bluetooth turned on
it says put your apple watch on its charger double-click the side button on your watch
and then follow the steps so this gives a lot of hope to those that can't easily access a support
center or maybe an apple store to get this resolved so that's something they've added
they weren't clear about in the notes but something they seemingly added later on with that
support document if you use apple's fitness plus and maybe you're doing a workout there's an update
to it that provides you with audio commentary of visually demonstrated moves throughout the
workout so that's something they've added if you have fitness plus on your watch they've also added
a developer feature to allow them to express the preferences for different payment networks as well
so that's developer facing only now within this update apple has not mentioned any resolved issues
specifically so nothing is mentioned there but there is a known issue or bug that still remains
that they mentioned specifically and that has to do with siri where it may not properly recognize
the user's speech but only on the apple watch series 3. so there's currently a bug with that
they say it could be a problem it may not but if it occurs it's a known bug and they're still
working on it within watch os 8.5 there's quite a few security updates as well just with any major
release of watch os there's always a security update and you can see it on apple's security
website so if we go down and tap on watch os 8.5 it tells us what's actually been fixed as far as
security so kernel and then we've got media remote and phone and preferences in safari
and you'll see here it says available for apple watch series 3 and later this is for siri and it
says an impact is a person with physical access to the device may be able to use siri to obtain
some location information from the lock screen to fix this a permission issue was addressed with
improved validation and then it thanks or gives credit to the person that actually submitted this
so a lot of different fixes and updates in this particular update and while it's not a
gigantic update with watch os 8.5 i would highly recommend you install it due to those security
updates so if you were wondering if you should install watch os 8.5 i definitely recommend it
watch os in general is quite stable and while there are not major changes in this update
i think those are some nice feature adds and security updates as well as far as battery life
while on this version i'm at 75 percent and it easily gets me through a day without a problem
typically by the time i go to bed at night i'm down to about 40 to 50 percent and i've had no
issues whatsoever performance overall has been nice and fast going into things such as weather
everything opens pretty instantly so no real issue here you'll see timer i don't typically use a lot
but it opened right up so i really wouldn't hesitate installing this you have some nice
updates and of course the security fixes as well as far as the next version well watch os 8.6 betas
probably will be pretty soon but don't expect any major changes until watch os 9 where we typically
see that at wwdc around june and then they release it to the public usually in september so that's
where i would expect the major changes right now it's just stability a few extra feature ads with
with fitness plus and then of course security and more one thing i get asked a lot is what is
the watch face you're using so if we press on this you'll see we have infograph modular now it's not
just infograph modular it's actually got the app called lumi installed as well so this is actually
a paid app and you'll see it says countdown to golden hour or basically the best time to take
photos and it also lets you know sunrise and sunset so you'll see that's in the middle and
then i just adjusted the complications around it so that's all it is infograph modular with
lumi in the middle if you've found anything else i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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