Apple watch can't enter passcode

Apple watch partially

lost touch screen

Posted on Apr 11, 2021 7:00 PM

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Posted on Apr 11, 2021 7:28 PM

With your watch near your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap Passcode, then turn on Unlock with iPhone.


To fix the watch screen, the first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


If all else fails, for repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


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Apr 11, 2021 7:28 PM in response to iAndyMac

With your watch near your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap Passcode, then turn on Unlock with iPhone.


To fix the watch screen, the first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


If all else fails, for repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


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