Apple Seeds First Beta of watchOS 8.5 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming watchOS 8.5 beta to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming just a day after the release of watchOS 8.4.

To install ‌‌‌watchOS 8‌‌‌.5, developers will need to download the configuration profile from the Apple Developer Center. Once installed, ‌‌‌watchOS 8.4‌‌‌ can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General > Software update.

To update to new software, an Apple Watch needs to have 50 percent battery life, it must be placed on the charger, and it needs to be in range of the ‌‌‌iPhone‌‌‌.

We don't yet know what's included in the watchOS 8.5 update, but if if we find new features after installing the beta, we'll update this article.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First Beta of watchOS 8.5 to Developers

 

[MauiPa]

Not mentioned in the article, but apparently it needs the iPhone update to be installed first.

 

[Hessian]

Not mentioned in the article, but apparently it needs the iPhone update to be installed first.

I found that to be pretty standard to the point that it became my order of steps to update.

 

[IGendel]

Anyone else having issues trying to install this? It just says estimating time remaining forever and then fails eventually. I have tried restarting both the phone and the watch as well as removing the profile and adding it back again

 

[punneo]

Anyone else having issues trying to install this? It just says estimating time remaining forever and then fails eventually. I have tried restarting both the phone and the watch as well as removing the profile and adding it back again

I'm having the same issue with my Apple Watch series 7. Tried twice now and experienced the same issue.

 

[IGendel]

I'm having the same issue with my Apple Watch series 7. Tried twice now and experienced the same issue.

I wonder when they are going to fix it. I've reported the issue to Apple

 

[iGeneo]

Installed on my W7 without issue

 

[Jukens]

Anything new or major issues?

 

[bviktor]

Will they finally address the fact that these 32GB watches restrict media to only 8GB (or less)?

watchOS 7 limits media storage to 8 GB

Here's the lovely message I'm getting since upgrading my Apple Watch 5 Series to watchOS 7: Out of Media Storage The storage space dedicated to media on your Apple Watch is full. To make space available, you can remove some podcasts, music or audiobooks. Which is weird because, according t

noobient.com

Sometimes it won't sync, even if I have ZERO music files (or anything else) on my watch...

 

[robd003]

Has anything substantially changed in WatchOS since the initial release of 8?

I can’t seem to find any release notes other than security updates.

 

[Graveth]

After the update, my watch has difficulties with Siri. It doesn’t give me the time to give a command. Anyone else has the same problem or has any ideas of how to solve this?

 

[StumpyBloke]

The hand washing reminders that we used to get when arriving back home before the release of watchOS 8 still don’t work for me on this version. Do they work for anyone? I’ve reported it twice to Apple in the feedback app but had zero response to anything. But then again that’s nothing new for Apple these days.