Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released watch os 8.4 rc or release
candidate to developers and public beta testers this is the final version that should release to
the public unless apple finds additional bugs in it before the final release and this particular
update was fairly small about 150 megabytes or so and i installed it on my series 7 apple watch
but it's available for all watch os 8 supported devices now along with this apple also released
ios 15.3 rc ipad os 15.3 rc tv os 15.3 rc and mac os 12.2 rc so all of those are available now to
developers and public beta testers now let's go ahead and take a look at the build number
and talk about what's new so we'll go to settings then we'll go down to general then about and the
build number just shows us exactly what version we're on so as you can see here we're on 19s
546. that's the current version as far as the release candidate if there's a release candidate
two and they find additional issues then they'll update this as well now as far as new changes and
updates well apple has only mentioned one specific thing and that has to do with a charging problem
that certain devices had in fact you can see it right here it says some chargers may not
work as expected so maybe you were using a third-party charger or an apple charger
you can plug it in and it will work fine now so we'll go ahead and plug this in get our apple
watch charger here so now that we have it plugged in let's go ahead and place it on the charger and
you'll see it starts charging immediately now my daughter actually experienced the charging problem
on a magsafe duo charger so this should resolve that issue once 8.4 is released to the public
now other than this they said there's no new notes as far as new features or changes
some people have reported updates to home and things like that working a little bit better but
apple has not mentioned anything specifically however they do say that their security
updates and if we go to the apple security update website they haven't updated this yet as it's not
available to the public yet once this is available to the public they'll update this website and tell
us exactly what's been updated as far as security fixes so you'll see if we go down we can find
watch os 8.3 and they'll typically just list what's new as far as security updates and show
us everything they fixed in it so we'll have to wait until it's released to the public to know 100
but with ios 15.3 it looks like that issue where there was a safari vulnerability that was causing
the ability to be tracked across anything you're doing if a website was using indexed db has been
resolved in this update at least for ios so maybe that carries over to watch os as well but we don't
know specifically what's in it other than that so it's a very minor update which is quite odd
with a point release typically apple will push small updates and bug fixes with a point and then
another point meaning 8.3.1 or something along those lines is typically when we have such a small
update now when it's released to the public it's possible they could add more notes to that
but this makes me think that they have something big planned for wwdc and maybe watch os 9 and
ios 16 where they're not pushing a whole lot of new features maybe they're making a major
change to all of these devices and we could see something like that now as far as the release
date of this update well if we take a look at last year apple released watch os 7.3 on january
26th along with ios 14.4 so i would imagine they'll release something along the same lines
next wednesday or so we could expect the update it's possible we could see it as soon as monday
but last year they pushed it around that time frame so it makes a lot of sense we'll see it
in the early part of the week next week so that should be available to the public then
and unless there's any major problems found with it this would be the final version released to
the public and if you're already on it you'll have the final version early for those of you
wondering about battery life and if this will affect it at all so far it seems okay but it
will take a few days to know as we've only had this since yesterday i took it off the charger
this morning a couple hours ago and i'm down to 95 battery life so that's pretty good although
i haven't done a whole lot with it i haven't done any workouts or gone for a walk or anything
i've typically just used it for notifications right now but it seems to be okay that way and if
we take a look at my battery health we'll go down to battery here we'll find it there we go battery
and go down to battery health this device is at one hundred percent that's because it's a series
seven and fairly new but this will go down over time typically eighty percent after two years is
normal and my last watch the series 6 after using an entire year was down in the lower 90s so 92 93
which is what you would really expect as far as overall performance it doesn't seem to be really
any different than it was before apps that i don't use all the time seem to be opening nice and quick
or if we go into maybe something else we'll go into music you'll see it's nice and fast there
or let's even go into well heart rate i haven't opened that in a while you'll see it comes right
up so it's nice and fast i've not really had any issues with it and i wouldn't expect this
particular update to to affect anything as far as performance since it's a minor bug fix and it's
basically a security update not a whole lot going on in this update which is surprising like i said
and so that's everything in watch os 8.4 release candidate not a whole lot going on again apple
could update those notes before it's released to the public or when they release it to the public
and then since many of you ask this particular watch face a lot of people want to know what it is
it's infograph modular as you can see here it's infograph modular
and then in the center i have the app called lumy so you'll see there's lumy it's a paid app but i
paid for it and then installed it and the app called lumy is in the middle you have a couple
different options with that and so that's something a lot of you have asked about and i
try to answer in every single watch os video since i like this watch face so much so that's it for
this particular update if you found anything more i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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