My Apple Watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password

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!

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!

Happy to report that I've solved this issue, at least for my situation (Apple Watch keeps asking for a password for an old or unused Apple ID, and after entering the password, prompts for an authorization code from "other devices running iOS 9...", but that code never arrives to those other devices).

This requires that you know the password or are able to reset the password. If you're seeing a popup for someone else's Apple ID or one that you no longer have access to, you may need to call Apple as that's a different problem altogether.

My particular situation involves an old Apple ID that I use only occasionally on the App Store in the country where I currently reside when an app isn't available on the US Store. I don't have this Apple ID set up as a primary or secondary ID on any device. And that's exactly what I needed to do to fix the annoying popup on my Apple Watch: set it up on a Mac, iPad or iPhone as a secondary Apple ID. After that's done, you'll get the prompt to allow the sign-in on your Apple Watch (via a code or a simple "allow" prompt), and the popups will stop.

To do this on an iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Add Account > iCloud. Enter the Apple ID that's bugging your Watch followed by the password. Then give it a moment to sync with the iCloud server and you're done. The next time the prompt pops up on your Apple Watch, you should be able to get through the password entry and end the nagging.

On a Mac, it's System Preferences > Internet Accounts > iCloud.

After you get through the password entry on your Watch and are satisfied that it's not coming back, you can go back in and delete the old Apple ID account from your device, or just leave it there and turn off whichever iCloud elements (notes, contacts, etc) you don't want to use (that way it'll be ready to go should the problem recur).

Again, this will only work if you know the password. If not, you need to resolve that first. If it's your old Apple ID and you don't know the security questions, it might be possible to get past that step by resetting the questions or setting up two-factor auth. If it's someone else's Apple ID, most likely you have an app that was downloaded using that ID somewhere on your device that you bought or inherited from them. So you can try to track the app down, and maybe that alone will stop the incessant prompts on your Watch.

I hope this can help everyone work around the annoying bug.

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!

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!

I posted this earlier, but this may help:

TRY THIS FIRST: First, on my Apple Watch, at the prompt I enter my "family" account password and clicked "send verification code". Then I signed out of 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.

WHY THIS IS HAPPENING: 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 (now its its own device), so 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 for the "family" account, there is 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.

ANOTHER SOLUTION: Use an iPad or Mac and sign into iCloud using the "family" account. You could use your phone too but that's a pain. Once you sign into the iPad or Mac, you will now be able to receive verification codes from the "family" account on this device.

Good luck!

hello everyone, I believe I have found answer to this problem. If you go to your watch app on your phone and scroll all the way to the bottom, there might be an app that says "install" and every time you press it, it would ask for your Apple ID password on your watch and we all know that isn't working. So what you are going to want to do it physically delete the app, that is asking to be install in the watch app, off your phone and restart (Not reset) your phone and watch and after doing so, re-download the app on your phone under the iCloud that you want it to be under and that should resolve the problem. Hope this was helpful!! good luck!

I think I found a fix. I did a reset on my watch. I went to settings-general-reset-erase all content and settings (done on the watch). I have a cellular watch so I did not remove my plan. I also have my watch backed up to iCloud. Once I reset and repaired my watch with my phone the problem went away. I hope this helps.

I’ve had this issue and was ready to take a hammer to it. I have an iCloud, Comcast, and Gmail account. Watch kept asking me for my gmail.com password since I updated to watchOS 6.1. After a couple of weeks I put in my password on the watch, went over to my iPhone: settings>tapped my name on top>password & security> Get Verification code. This code is then entered on the watch after it asks for a code. Success!

THIS WORKED FOR ME: After literally a month and a half of stress and never being able to see what time it is, here it is:

Step 1: Put in your password on the watch - if the keyboard does not work, you will have to draw the letters.

Step 2: Go to your iPhone: settings>tapped my name on top>password & security> Get Verification code.

Step 3: This six digit code is then entered on the watch after it asks for a code. Success

Onward!

I had the same and spoke to Apple support. I have an Apple ID in the UK and another in France.

Unpairing and re-pairing from a backup produced the same response, however several Apps were showing as stuck trying to download. I think one of those apps was from the French App Store.

I unpaired and re-paired the watch, setting up as a new watch and clicking ‘download apps later’. I have a backup in the iCloud which holds health data etc.

This has fixed the problem, and I will now only re-load watch apps which have come from the UK App Store to avoid the problem reappearing.

Got solved issue by logging out of iTunes account, closing down watch, restart watch and logging in to iTunes and then writing password. Had to draw password on watch. Hardest thing was with o, O and 0 letters and numbers.

Our scenario and our solution:

Scenario:

We purchased a new apple watch, attempted to connect it to iPhone #1, but it kept asking for the password to the apple ID associated with iPhone #2, whose particular apple ID was used for a short while on iPhone #1. We don't want this new apple watch set up with that other apple ID, however there was a time when we had downloaded some apps onto iPhone #1 while signed into iTunes/App store using the apple ID from iPhone #2, but then signed back into iPhone #1 with the apple id of iPhone #1. I believe this is what confuses the setup of the apple watch - for some reason it wants that second apple id info... doesn't make sense, but.... this is APPLE.

Solution:

The solution for us was to identify any apps that were purchased thru the undesired apple ID (#2) that were loaded onto the iPhone #1 (the iPhone we're trying to sync the new apple watch to). Then we removed/deleted them from that iPhone #1. Then the request from the apple watch for the password to the undesired apple ID password ceased/stopped, and then we were able proceed setting up the apple watch, and then re-download the same apps to the iPhone #1 as long as we were signed in with the DESIRED apple ID #1.

*(However, at this very same time I was in the middle of signing out of the undesired apple ID #2 in iTunes/App settings of our iPhone #2, so I don't know if it was the combination of these acts or one of them individually. I honestly can't see how signing out of a different device has anything to do with solving this issue, but I feel the need to mention that I did it. Either way I hope this narrows it down for you.)

(I’ve just realised I posted with an older profile above. This is from the current profile) =)

I see there are many different experiences, some people easily fixed the issue where others are still struggling.

Also, this seems to be mostly linked to people who at some point had more than one Apple ID.

I’ll try and suggest a “cleanup” process including Apple ID, watch and other devices under your Apple ID.

BACKUP

Before you begin, make sure your important data is backed up to iCloud, Finder/iTunes or another method of your preference.

In case you have issues with any of the following steps and a restore/reinstall is needed, you might loose any data that hasn’t been backed up.

PART I - Manage your Apple ID down to ONE ACCOUNT ONLY.

1. IF YOU HAVE/HAD MULTIPLE IDs: you will need to choose only ONE Apple ID to be your account. Paid apps/services from a previous Apple ID will need to be purchased again on your current Apple ID as they’re not transferable. Free apps/services will be need to be downloaded again on your current Apple ID.
2. Make sure your Apple ID password is up to date. Go to https://appleid.apple.com/ - if your login is successful, you’re good to go. Otherwise there’s a link on that same page if you have forgotten Apple ID or password so you can sort it out.
3. OPTIONAL: I’d recommend signing out of iCloud/app store on all your devices, including old ones if you still have any, so you prevent conflicts with pre-existing logins. It is a clean slate that might prove helpful. Then sign back in with your CURRENT Apple ID and go to step 4 below.
4. Follow this link to update all your Apple ID related accounts.
5. Contact Apple Support if you have any issues with the steps above.

PART II - Manage your devices.

1. Unpair your watch from your iPhone. Make sure both devices are on charge, nearby each other and that the iPhone is connected to WiFi with Bluetooth on.
2. Install any updates pending on your iPhone.
3. OPTIONAL: if you want a sure fire solution, you could erase and reinstall iOS on your iPhone, set it up as new (without restoring your backup) and then syncing back your iCloud data and re-downloading your apps from the App Store. This might be time consuming but also gives your device a clean slate to start from, preventing potential conflicts from your backup. Then go to step 4 below.
4. Check that the watch has been removed from your Find My app. If you still see your watch there, erase it from Find My or iCloud.com.
5. Turn off all your devices.
6. Turn your iPhone back on, make sure it’s on WiFi with Bluetooth on and connected to charger.
7. Finally, pair your Apple Watch again.

Hope this helps,

Vicko

Go into the General setting in your watch app on your phone, then apple id re-enter your password, it will sign you back in and clear it