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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Apple Watch
My watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password then I enter it and it keeps asking
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Apple Watch
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!
I have tried Scribble several times....and can see what I am writing and its the RIGHT password.....but I always get a message saying incorrect. I use this password for everything on Apple so I know it's right. You're saying you also put in the correct password and it just didn't take also ? Then it finally did ?
I will keep trying ......Maybe using a stylus ....lol
Thank you for your input !
Yes, it took NUMEROUS tries with my finger on one watch. Slowly "drawing" the characters as big as will fit. You laugh! I have a Pogo Stylus from years ago which worked on the 2nd watch on the first try. Note: I tried reaching out to an Apple Support person who didn't know the answer and then after a half hour, she disappeared (like, oops). So it it's to be, it's up to me… good luck!
I tried scribble several times, and I always got the message saying it was the incorrect password. The only possibility I can think of is that my pword contains a zero, and they thought it was the letter O? I tried to make a line diagonally through the zero to make it clear but it wouldn't read. Would have been much easier if the keyboard they're referring to actually existed - per both of the Apple advisors I spoke to there is no such keyboard.
OK thanks! I will try to draw it bigger. It's so frustrating because no one at Apple knows why this message keeps popping up in the first place, nor do they know why it renders my watch unusable after.
I must have had the same person ! Same thing! I think they are like robots and just read a "script" .....lol
The guy I spoke to got my call mixed up with another one and told me to send my IPODS in ......I said "what " ??? So they juggle several calls at once apparently ! Not good service......
I just noticed on iPhone > Settings > Notifications > There is Apple Watch Keyboard. I wonder if that's what it is. Never know what it was, had Notifications for it turned off. Allow shows Lock Screen / Notification Center / Banners. I wonder if that would help…
I tried that with my iPhone in my hand... tap… tap… tap… nada, zilch…GRR! I'd never had to until I changed my AppleID password. Apple could include clearer instructions or they could be buried somewhere on their gazillion of support pages. We just had a watchOS and iOS update, all fine as far. Will keep your solution in mind the next time it happens! Thanks! (May 22, 2020)
When I go to my iPhone > Watch app > General > Apple ID it just shows me the email address for my Apple ID. There is no option to re-enter any password nor any option to log out nor anything else. It's purely a place for you to have a look at the ID that is associated with that Apple watch. Is there any other way to try your proposed solution? Any of the 20 users who have flagged this as "Helpful", could you please indicate how you did this?
I've tried everything else suggested in this thread and it does not help.
Thank you
I have tried all the possible solutions without satisfactory results. I am getting a new watch on Thursday, if the problem persists that will be the end of my using Apple watches. By the way, I have a couple of friends who have turned off their watches because of similar problem
Me too. It started about 5 months ago. After a few months it went away, but Zi have just updated the software and it is back again. Come on Apple. You are supposed to be the world’s leading tech company. Surely you can fix this bug that has been annoying your loyal customers for months!
This is now happening to my wife's Apple Watch.
I have tried but still cannot work....
Hello.. Having the same problem as most of you... I think I used two apple id as well.. Hope they release a solution or update soon...
Thank you! I finally get rid of this id verification issue.
Thank you so much! This totally works for me and fixes my problem.
My Apple Watch keeps asking for my Apple ID password