Apple Watch can’t set passcode

If password changes have been disabled in Screen Time settings on your iPhone, it might gray out the passcode option on your Apple Watch. In this case, you can use the Screen Time settings menu, on your iPhone, to enable this and check again. Here’s how to do it.

On your iPhone, Open Settings ➔ Screen Time ➔ Content & Privacy Restrictions ➔ Passcode Changes : Set this to ALLOW

Axel F.

This didn’t work for me. Latest software, unpaired and re paired, reset , erased, reset, but nothing will allow me to enter passcode, so I can’t use apply pay on watch.

not sure why, but it all related to the last watch upgrade when apply pay stopped working. Now watch won’t ask for a passcode! Any ideas?