How to unlock Apple Watch without entering password

Your Apple Watch can automatically unlock with your iPhone, so you don’t need to enter a code multiple times a day while keeping your data safe.

The Apple Watch is a companion that can quickly become indispensable in everyday life, allowing you to take a little distance from your iPhone in everyday activities. However, due to the amount of personal data it contains, access to it should be limited. To do this, the company from Cupertino has built in a security mechanism, a combination lock, like on the iPhone everywhere. In the long run, entering this code is tedious. Fortunately, there are solutions to get around it without sacrificing security.

Apple Watch can unlock automatically thanks to iPhone

Connected watches from the Apple brand, like the iPhone, have a security system aimed at blocking access to data using a code. Apple Watch can automatically lock itself as soon as the user removes it from the wrist. To unlock it, for example, in the morning when you wake up, you need to enter a code. An operation that is not only tedious to repeat, but also not the easiest on a small screen.

To avoid entering the code several times a day

So that unlocking is no longer a limitation, the Cupertino-based company has integrated an option to automatically unlock the watch when you unlock the iPhone it’s paired with.

To set up this system, follow these few steps:

1. Launch the Watch app on iPhone.
2. Go to the “Code”tab.
3. Click on the button corresponding to the “Unlock with iPhone”option to activate it.
4. Then you must enter the unlock code on the watch. After that, the setting becomes active.

From now on, whenever the watch is locked, such as when it is charging or lying on a table, in a bag, or elsewhere, it will automatically unlock when it is returned to the wrist when the iPhone is unlocked by itself for the first time using one of the authentication methods you set up, be it code entry, Touch ID, or even Face ID.

Keeping your data safe

In this way, the data on your watch remains protected from the hands of a possible third party and you do not have to enter the code several times a day. And since this connection is supported by Bluetooth, you have nothing to fear in case of loss or theft. If the Apple Watch is far away from your iPhone, it can’t be unlocked by mistake.