Hi, everyone.
Aaron here for Zollotech and the watchOS 8 Beta 2 is now available to
developers. It released late yesterday, along with.
IOS 15 Beta 2, iPadOS 15 Beta 2.
And tvOS15 Beta 2. So far,
there is no macOS Monterey Beta 2. They haven't released that yet.
Hopefully later today, or maybe it will be next week.
Now the overall size of this update was about 500 megabytes.
That's on a series six apple watch. It can vary from watch to watch,
but you'll see, it says 472 megabytes there.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the build number.
And this is something I keep seeing. So you'll see the screen just went white.
This keeps happening over and over to me.
So there's something going on with it there, it seems to be a bit of a bug,
but right now it's a problem and keeps popping up with beta two.
So I just thought I'd mentioned that now let's go ahead and take a look at the
build number and then we'll take a look at what's new.
So let's go into the watch and we'll unlock it. Now,
if we go into settings and then we go to general than about,
you can see the version number here,
and the reason I bring this up is it lets you know which version you're on.
You want to make sure you're on the latest version, which is 8.0.
And you can see the build number is 19R5286f,
so that just lets you know, you're on the latest build. Now,
as far as what's new in this specific build,
there's two major things that you can see anyway.
And the first one has to do with the portrait watch face.
This is something apple, and now with watch USA, but we haven't seen yet.
So if we go over to this watch face,
you can see this is the new portrait watch face.
Now you can take any portrait photo and put that in here and you'll see,
as we zoom in and out,
it will zoom in and out on what we're looking at and it's motion sensitive as
well as I move it around. So you'll see it has that parallax effect.
Like you get on the iPhone now. Now if we press and hold and then go to edit,
you can see that we have a couple of different options for the clock so we can
change it to modern classic or rounded.
And then also we have some complications we can change.
So you can see there's the date there. If we tap here,
you can change it to calendar or off.
So you have a couple of different options there.
And then the other one you can change to whatever you'd like here.
So you have a bunch of different options for the other complication as well.
So that's the change with this specific update as far as watch faces go.
And if you go and add new, for example,
it says new in watchOS and shows you that watch face. So if you tap on it,
it shows you that you can add portraits.
So it's nice that they've added that made it really easy to see what's new.
As far as that goes now,
something else that's been updated with watchOS 8 beta two is when it unlocks
your apple watch using your iPhone with face ID,
it will pop up a new little dialogue or a notification at the top,
letting you know that it's unlocked and it gives you the ability to lock it.
Now this.
Seems to be very intermittent for me for some.
Reason. So this feature, if you're not familiar with it,
if you go into your watch app, go down to passcode under passcode,
it says unlock with iPhone.
When this is on your iPhone will automatically unlock apple watch as long as
you're wearing it. And so I've tried this multiple times and I'll try it again.
So maybe we'll put the iPhone down here and let's lock it.
I'll take the watch off my wrist. So just like you normally would,
we'll set it down, pick it up, put it back on my wrist.
Let's see if we can get this to pop up. So if we bring this up here,
let's unlock the apple or the iPhone and it's not unlocking the apple watch.
This seems to be very inconsistent. If I bring this back up,
for some reason it's not working. However,
I was able to capture this with a screenshot and you can see what it looks like
here. So for some reason, it's very inconsistent.
I had to reboot the apple watch to get it to work on beta two.
So it seems to be a bit buggy,
but you can see even the image was cut off a little bit,
but it says Aaron's apple watch unlocking.
And then I have the option to lock it. The image was cut off.
So it looks like this is not finished.
They may need to refine this some more about that is a small change that I'm
seeing from time to time. Now maybe we'll try one more time by going into, uh,
we'll turn it on airplane mode and then go into Bluetooth and turn Bluetooth
off. And then back on let's have the apple watch reconnect in.
Maybe it will make a difference. So we'll try it one more time.
We'll unlock, bring up the apple watch. And there it goes.
Now it's saying Aaron's apple watch unlocking.
So it seems to be very hit or miss. Maybe it was a Bluetooth connectivity issue,
but it is something that's a little bit new.
Now with this update comes a lot of resolved issues.
So apple has resolved about 20 issues and that goes to everything such as
contacts, the home app maps,
the app app activity log Shizam workouts and more so a lot has
been fixed in this update. Although it does seem to have a few bugs already.
There are still 17 known issues. So apple is still working on this.
There's definitely some issues in this update,
but that's to be expected with early beta. So it's not really a concern for me,
but it is something to note. So they will continue to work on this.
And generally this will release around September when the next apple watch comes
out and iOS 15 comes out to the public. So it's going to be a few more betas,
probably could be up to seven betas if we've see what we've seen before with
previous beta.
So we can have quite a few different changes and refinements until then.
So apple will continue to work on it until then, then release it to the public.
But watchOS in general seems to be fairly stable.
So just using it as you can see swiping through, it seems to be okay.
And if we go into the control center,
everything else seems to be very fast. So no problems with performance,
at least on the series six apple watch.
And for those of you wondering about overall battery life,
let's take a look here.
We'll go to battery and you'll see it's at 91%.
Currently I took this off the charger this morning and battery health
on this watch is at 96%, 80% after two years as normal.
And so I've been using this every single day since it came out.
So this gives you an idea. Generally it will get me through a day. No problem.
You can see the little charge there.
So that's when it was charged and it will get me through a day, no problem.
And then normally at the end of the day, I'll have about 50% left.
So it will get me through about two days if I wasn't wearing it 24 hours.
So two regular work days, for example. So it seems to be okay.
As far as on the betas with beta one, it was okay.
It's not going to be the same for everyone though. Now, should you install,
watch Wes eight beta two. Well, if you're not already on watch USA,
I would highly caution against it because if you have a problem,
you have to send it into apple for them to revert it back, to watchOS seven.
So generally I advise against using developer betas on your apple watch,
unless you have an extra one that you're developing for. Otherwise,
you can definitely take that risk, but it is a risk. If something goes wrong,
I have seen it go wrong before where I had to send one into apple to have them
bring it back to the current version.
They can't do it in the store unless they've changed something recently you have
to send it in. So it takes about a week or so,
or at least a few days in order to have them do that.
So I would definitely recommend waiting on that as far as beta three. Well,
I would expect that probably in two weeks at this particular point,
based on what we've seen in the past,
that seems to be pretty typical of what apple does with betas.
And this was an odd release late last night. So it could be a couple of weeks,
maybe the second or third week of July, by the time we get beta three,
but of course I'll keep you updated. As soon as I know about that,
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