Apple Watch card problems

[Stephen Watson]

Sorry - deleted the original after replying with the wrong email!

I’ve only come across situations where the reader refused to acknowledge the watch and, less frequently, my phone, and I had to use my card. These situations are quite rare and nearly all the time it works fine.

On a wild off chance, you may like to try supplying your AppleID on the watch from time to time mine would pop up and ask for my AppleID which I never bothered to supply. Later I realised that I could unlock my iMac with my watch but the switch never took on my iMac. Then it did work for a while, then reverted to ignoring my watch again!

I tried entering the password for my AppleID on my watch and it rejected it every time - even entering the p/w via my iPhone keyboard - so I finally relented and changed my AppleID password. The watch accepted this and my iMac then instantly switched to unlocking via my watch and has remained doing so ever since.

It seems quite unrelated to your problem Jason but it’s a security measure and may be worth a punt to avoid a reset.

Cheers,
Stephen

You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. ~ Carl Jung

[Jason Davies]

I don't think I've ever been asked for my AppleID on the watch. It always unlocks my laptop but we always laugh when it actually works on our old iMac (for telly) as it's so rare. Maybe it's something to do with the original way it was set up (?)

I might try it though the scenario does sound very different. I need to pop to the shop today so will see if the problem persists!

thanks,
J

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Cheers,

Jason