Automatically unlock iPhone with Apple Watch

Hi

No, it is not possible to unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch.

However, if you would prefer to only unlock one device at the start of each day (unlocking both when doing so), you may wish to use these settings:

• On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch (tab) > General > Wrist Detection - turn this on.
• On your iPhone, in the Watch app, go to: My Watch > Passcode > Turn Passcode on.
• Also on the Passcode settings screen, enable Unlock with iPhone.

After putting it on your wrist, your watch will then unlock after whatever you do first: either unlocking your watch manually (by entering the passcode) or unlocking your iPhone.

Your watch will then remain unlocked (including when the screen is asleep) until you remove it from your wrist. When you remove your watch, it will lock automatically.

More information:

https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apd748b87e2a

verdili wrote:

This should work with not just apple watch but any connected bluetooth device (wireless headphones and activity trackers in particular) - if face id has some inconveniences compared to touch id, this feature would make iPhone X much more appealing to me.

If you would like to submit a feature request to Apple, then you can do so here:

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I definitely agree. It would make sense to make it unlock depending on proximity. If your watch is ok your wrist and you go for your phone.. it usually is on that arm of the other. Even if someone grabbed your phone unless they were in the low range it wouldn’t trigger and it’d be hard to miss someone playing on your phone basically in your lap

This should work with not just apple watch but any connected bluetooth device (wireless headphones and activity trackers in particular) - if face id has some inconveniences compared to touch id, this feature would make iPhone X much more appealing to me.

I can’t believe we are waiting for this still. Anyone who works with their hands - pretty much is going to hate fingerprint unlock. Mine almost never works. So I have to press it over and over and passcode entry finally comes up. I remember the day I could just click the button and type a number without looking.

Apple should work on that. My fingerprints never work right and my company requires an 8 digit passcode! Bummer )-:

No.

The one device one may unlock at the beginning of the day being: the iPhone?

kerryspyder wrote:

The one device one may unlock at the beginning of the day being: the iPhone?

Yes - see my previous reply.

Then be sure to submit your feedback to Apple via the link in my previous reply.

(You are not talking to Apple here - this is a user-based technical support community).