When your Apple Watch is locked, you have to enter a passcode on the small screen every time. But you can unlock your Apple Watch even more easily with your iPhone, and this is how it works.
Unlock your Apple Watch faster
To ensure that your Apple Watch is protected from others, it is wise to set a passcode for the watch. In addition, the so-called wear detection is activated as standard. When you take your Apple Watch off, for example when you go to sleep, it locks automatically.
As a result, you have to enter the passcode every time you put the Apple Watch back on. Safe, because the device has little value in the wrong hands, but it is also somewhat clumsy.
Also read: How to unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch
To avoid having to enter a code on the small display, you can also unlock the Watch with your iPhone. Unlocking your phone also opens the watch’s digital lock on your wrist. You set this function as follows.
How to unlock the Apple Watch with your iPhone
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone;
- Go to the ‘My Watch’ tab;
- Tap on ‘Passcode’;
- Make sure the slider behind ‘Unlock with iPhone’ is green.
This can also be set from your Apple Watch itself, by going to ‘Passcode’ in the Settings app. Here you can, for example, also set a code, turn it off or change the access code. If the iPhone unlock option is activated, you no longer need to enter a code when your iPhone is nearby.
It is necessary that both your iPhone and your Watch are locked before you turn on your iPhone. Your encrypted Apple Watch will not respond if you simply hold your unlocked iPhone next to it.
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