Trying to set Passcode, passcode entry is not acknowledged.

Update. After the above I powered off the Watch. I powered on the Watch. I went back to the My Watch app on my phone and found that a passcode was now set. I'm not 100% sure what the passcode is because I tried so many. Not ideal, but regardless, I can now proceed to set up Apple Pay.

In the My Watch app, most optiones are greyed out but 'Unlock with iPhone' is turned on which is handy.

I did consider deleting the policy/exchange account but I didn't want to have to ask IT to send it to me again. + My IT department was not happy with the way the Outlook app was connecting and have set the policy to disallow it at this time. That's not a priority for them to fix since they have '1,200 users happily using the standard Mail app'. 😐

Once I realized I had a passcode on I did not pay much attention to my passcode settings and which may have been greeted out, I proceeded directly to adding a card in ApplePay. As I stated above, the only setting now on is 'Unlock via iPhone' and I can enable 'Erase data...' option if I like. I have decided that with ApplePay is configured that the greyed out options are by design; The 'Unlock via iPhone' method would be the safest way to protect a watch with credit cards stored in it because if someone stole your watch, no PIN number would get them in, they would need your phone too.

Gary, maybe you also set up ApplePay before looking back into the passcode settings?

OK. I think this will be a software bug not a hardware one. I hope some other people can discover a workaround.

Hi yesyoucan,

No, you don't; not from my experience. The watch never asks me for a passcode but if I take it off my wrist it will lock and the if I try and use it, it will say, 'Put the watch on [your wrist] and then unlock your iPhone.' So I do that and then I'm fine until I take the watch of my wrist again. Which might be hours later at the end of the day.

if your watch is reallly loose it might think it has been taken off your wrist.