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My Apple Watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password

My watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password then I enter it and it keeps asking


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Posted on Sep 22, 2019 5:44 PM

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Oct 20, 2019 7:30 PM in response to ebony_eyes

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!

Oct 21, 2019 2:52 PM in response to TheSparr0w

The combination of your advice and ebony_eyes has solved my problem.


I got my spare iPad, logged out of my primary iCloud account and then logged in to iCloud using my iTunes Store ID. This ID is very old and did not have an iCloud account linked to it so I created that. I then tried to install an app on the Watch, got the Verification message, entered my password and the alert and number appeared on my iPad. Job done!


It is important to make sure that your store ID does have an iCloud account as well even if you never use it again.


Many thanks.

My Apple Watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password

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