My Apple Watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password

I have the apple watch version 4 or what eve the newest one is, and it keeps asking me for my apple ID even if I just put it in. I went into settings and there is no option to enter my password to reset. How do I fix this?

Press password box on your watch a dialog box will appear on your PHONE press that and a keyboard will appear on your PHONE then type in your password and your done. Can’t remember the name of the person who posted these instructions but it worked for me.

Along with the others, I have the same issue.

i went to see an Apple Genius who had no other suggestion than to unpair and then re pair the watch to the phone.

Didnt work.....

I have tried all other suggestions listed to date and they have failed also.

Solution, walk to your nearest river or large body of water and toss it in. It may sound a little drastic but after the initial remorse we can all just move on.

Here is the fix!

1. Open your Apple Watch app on your phone and go to “My Watch”
2. Go to Settings/General & turn off Automatic App Install.
3. Now go back to “My Watch” and scroll to the bottom to see “Available Apps”.
4. Any apps you see that are trying to install are the culprits causing the notifications!
5. Delete those apps from your phone, and if necessary reinstall them with your Apple ID used currently.
6. Turn Automatic App Install back on if necessary.

You now won't receive any more of those annoying notifications!

This is really frustrating, as soon as I reconnect my watch or it goes into my home Wi-Fi area it seems to want my ID and password about 60 or 70 times and I’ve been counting them. It won’t let me put my Apple ID in using the Apple Watch app, as the Apple ID is deemed and won’t let me select it in the Apple Watch app What happens, is it asked for the same ID twice very quickly then waits for about five seconds and then asked for it twice again up to about 60 or 70 times

Me too! After the most recent update for my Apple Watch ver3, I cannot even use my watch because a screen appears asking me to enter my Password for my Apple ID, but a non-visible keyboard appears so no way to enter that Password and if you hit Cancel then the same screen just reappears as a continuous loop and won’t go away. So no access to my Apple Watch which is now a useless tool around my wrist. Apple Technical Support please reach out to me to fix this issue!

I HAVE THE RESOLUTION. after experiencing this issue myself where the apple watch is requesting a password and you enter the password from your apple phone but then never receive the verification code this is what you need to do. Yes, It is because many of us have 2 apple IDs (1 for personal associated for you only "1st ID" and other possibly used for itunes and app store for family "2nd ID"). On a device (you decide) .. sign out of the apple id associated with your personal and sign into the one that the APPLE WATCH is asking for. This is a temporary sign out ... after you get the verification code to the 2nd ID then you can sign back in using the 1st ID. I have multiple devices so I signed out and back in using a secondary phone that I have. But you can do this on an IPAD or Macbook also. I would not do this on your primary phone. Once you sign in with the 2nd iD .... go through the verification steps on the WATCH again. This will now send the verification code to the device you used to sign into with the "2nd ID". Get that verification code, use it to verify the watch. Then go to the app store icon on the WATCH and choose any free app to download and make sure it downloads. Wait 5 minutes to confirm that you are no longer receiving this message on the watch anymore and then go back to that device you selected to now SIGN OUT using the 2nd ID and sign back in with the 1st ID.

These steps should save you 2 hours on the phone with TIER 2 APPLE Support.

TIER 1 apple support will not be able to fix this issue. If you call apple support, you need to specifically request TIER 2 support.

Be blessed and pay it forward!

Press cancel on your watch (it will pop up again immediately, hit cancel again), after a couple seconds the cycle will happen again. This cycle will happen like six times. After that you won’t get it again for a couple hours. My only solution so far until Apple comes out with a fix. If I click Password and then the keyboard button, I get a pop up on both my iPad and iPhone 11 Pro Max that gives me a keyboard. I put in my password for my Apple ID and enter (or return or next) but no 6 digit code ever shows up. I went into settings to the area where you can always get a code, but that doesn’t work.

Bingo! That is exactly right. If your iCloud is one account ("personal"), and your iTunes/APP Store is another (like a "family" account), what's happening is that now you can access the App Store right from your watch, so of course its asking for password and verification code (you can choose which account to use for iCloud and which account to use for App Store in the Watch App settings). But if you're like me, you don't actually have a device that's signed into iCloud USING THE ITUNES/App Store "family" account, so when Apple Watch sends a verification code, there no device that can receive it because they are all signed into the "personal" account. This is why generating a code from Password & Security doesn't work, because that code is associated with the iCloud "personal" account, not the App Store "family" account.

TRY THIS FIRST: The steps ebony_eyes laid out should work, however, this worked for me and may be faster: First, on my Apple Watch, I enter password and clicked "send verification code". Then I signed out out the App Store (Signed into my "family" account) on my phone (on the actual phone settings, not the Apple Watch settings), then signed into the App Store with my "personal" account, then signed out again and resigned in back with my original "family" account. As soon as I signed back in with my "family" account I got a verification code pop up and was able to enter that into the watch.

Good luck!

This is annoying. I have a similar situation (two accounts). I erased and reinstalled everything last night. Still getting the "sign in" prompts. Now up to 8 or 9 times. Not wearing my watch today. Really frustrated with Apple on this.

So this is what I think is happening, at least for me.

1) I had two Apple accounts because I moved to Canada and, at the time, I didn't know how long I'd be here. So I used my original as my US account, and then a secondary account for Canada (since some apps only were available in the Canadian store).

2) Before iOS 13, there was no Watch App store, so any watch apps would automatically get updated when the iPhone updated apps. This wasn't an issue with two ID's as it would prompt you to put in the relevant ID's passwords for the apps on updates, and install them accordingly on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

3) But, I think, now that there is a dedicated App store fo Apple Watch apps, this causes an issue. Since the Apple Watch can only be associated with one Apple ID because of Apple Pay, that the Watch Apps will only update with the ID it's associated with, meaning the secondary will never update since you can't switch over temporarily to update the apps, like you are able to on the iPhone. Yes, your iPhone can also only be associated with one ID, but the Apple Pay settings are separate from the App Store store settings.

***Solution***

I have none at the moment, except for re-downloading all the apps again using the same account, now that I have officially changed the region of my US ID to Canada.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, or some actual support from Apple would be great as well.

Again, this is only a theory, as there really is no way to know for sure why this issue is happening. As I have found no solution, because the above recommendation is unable to be preformed because your Apple Watch App does not let you sign out of your associated Apple Watch ID in the "General" settings.

I've recently had this same problem and I only have one ID. Having 2 may cause the issue but that is not only cause. I know my ID that I am entering is correct because how else could I be commenting here - Right?

There is a new Watch OS 6 update (6.0.1) that I will do later tonight but the description of this update does not address this (it's about the Mickey watch face not speaking, calendar and display calibration).

But at least I see this is happening to others as well.

I’m having the same problem it keeps requesting the Apple ID twice what’s a couple of seconds then request it twice again about 60 times. I’m using voice-over as I’m legally blind and I can’t get the password in the watch app will not let me put the password in or re-sign into the Apple ID The watch app is showing the two Apple ID is that I have them so I can’t even select them in the watch app itself. This is got to be a program bug that Apple have really screwed up this time

I was able to enter my password from my phone and I did this below as well; I have not had the issue since. Not sure which one fixed it but I'll take it.

Nov 3, 2019 4:35 PM in response to mcrina

I have a series 4 watch with the same problem. I powered off the watch, powered off my phone waited 30 seconds powered up the phone and then powered up the watch and the message has not returned. Fingers are crossed.

I was not able to input my password on the iPhone. I did get the dialog on the watch and the phone as you said, but when I tried to do something on the phone it took me back to the watch. I tried the character-recognition keypad but that was an ungodly-y painful experience and didn't work.