Setup a new iPhone 14 Pro and paired Apple Watch Series 7 (had to reset the Watch because it wouldn’t pair properly as an existing device). Tried to set a passcode for the Watch (via the iPhone and the Watch), however the option to do so is disabled (greyed out). Your help is greatly appreciated! I need the passcode feature enabled on the Watch as part of a Research study I’m a participant of (via Apple Research app).
Apple Watch Series 7, watchOS 9
Wow, I don’t follow the logic, but thank you so much. After rebuilding at least 8 times and a fair amount of stress you solution worked perfectly.
Finally worked it out!
Wow, I don’t follow the logic, but thank you so much. After rebuilding at least 8 times and a fair amount of stress you solution worked perfectly.
Finally worked it out!
In case people are still having issues, what worked for me was as follows:
Settings (iPhone) > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Password Changes (switch to allow)
Mine somehow got set to "Don't Allow", so once I made the switch I was immediately able to set a passcode on my watch.
Finally worked it out!
Hope this helps!
Hey there, this is probably a setting that is not allowing the passcode change. Happened to me and even care coould not solve it.
go to settings > screen time > content restriction > scroll down and find “allow changes” under that check if passcode changes is “ON”. If it’s on turn it OFF . Close the watch app from the background apps. Open it again and I’m sure you will have the options available to make changes.
cheers mate
above is the answer. I had locked down passcodes to not be able to change it, but when I reset the Apple Watch, it wouldn’t change from being locked, so going to privacy settings solved it.
Thanks.
Settings (iPhone) > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Password Changes (switch to allow).
I touched my Apple Watch by mistake. I have a passcode on it and it went to zoom. I tapped it twice to get it off of zoom and now the backspace button, the red one on the bottom and the enter button and the dismiss button are missing and it’s black. I can’t get it to come on. It tells me to put in my passcode and it has told me previous amount of times that I put in the wrong code and it’s the right code. What do I do?
Thank you for the solution! Very convoluted and counter-intuitive to fix...
Saved me another one hour conversation of resetting, repairing and repairing, etc. with support the solution rocks!
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This is the solution, it worked!!! Thanks a lot!!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!! I spent 3hours to trying find out what is wrong, and strangely it’s somehow connected to this, but it finally helped!
This worked !
Thank you.
Same with my watch. Thank you this worked perfectly :)
Passcode setup greyed out on Apple Watch S7
