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Prevent watch from turning on off wrist

How can you stop an apple watch (4) from showing the unlock password screen off wrist ?

Practical problem:

In the workspace it is not allowed to wear the watch and there is no way to safely store so it sits in a pocket for a few hours a day. There is no way someone touched it!

Today there where too much unlock attempts and as a result the watch had to be factory reset with all settings erased.

This could be prevented if the watch has to be on the wrist to attempt to log in and or multi finger to wake up the screen.

Thanks.

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 12:30 PM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2021 12:34 PM

You can always put on water lock, that will disable the screen from being activated by touch.


If you want you can remove the passcode, but the will also remove Apple Pay and it will not solve your issue of touching the screen.


The other option is to turn it off.

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Prevent watch from turning on off wrist

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