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Wrist detection
- Thread starter Lyusi
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Why do you want to turn it off?
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Absolute no no 👎 to turn it off!!!!
Almost everything that requires the Apple Watch to be unlocked like Apple Pay, unlock with Mac, workout tracking and tracking health metrics require wrist detection to be on. Including the following: health related complications, always on display and to unlock your Apple Watch with your iPhone.
Basically it detects if anything is in contact with the back sensors of your Apple Watch and that’s how it keeps it unlocked.
Almost everything that requires the Apple Watch to be unlocked like Apple Pay, unlock with Mac, workout tracking and tracking health metrics require wrist detection to be on. Including the following: health related complications, always on display and to unlock your Apple Watch with your iPhone.
Basically it detects if anything is in contact with the back sensors of your Apple Watch and that’s how it keeps it unlocked.
Never use wrist detection. Pain in the hind end. Use my phone for Apple Pay. After having to re-enter my Password multiple times I said screw it!
Agreeable. Some straps, like double tour, or if worn loosely, automatically lock the Apple Watch when it moves around your wrist excessively.
If you plan to use the tiny pod, Apple Watch pocket watch necklaces, or pins like these, or wear loose bands, it’s best to keep the wrist detection off. @erihp is well known for keeping his Apple Watch SE 2 on a power bank keychain set.
Otherwise, for most features purposes, it’s best to keep the watch on with that setting.
If you are entering the password on the watch, I'd agree. Just turn on "Unlock with iPhone" in the settings, and then you can unlock the watch by unlocking your iPhone (with Face ID)
If I have to take out my phone to enter the password, might as well click twice and do the transaction.
I have wrist detection on, but no password set on the watch. So the watch never locks.
I thought there were some functions wrist detection did aside from locking/unlocking the watch, but now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure exactly what wrist detection does other than lock/unlock.
I use Apple Pay exclusively on my AW, with wrist detection on, plus "unlock with iPhone (which uses faceid), I simply have to double press the side button to pay, never to enter a password.
In your case, not having a password disables Apple Pay, which is obviously fine, but I use it for 90+% of all my purchases.
Yeah, I don't use Apple Pay on my watch, because during the winter, it's very hard to get the watch out from under layers of clothing. It's just faster to pull my iPhone out of my coat pocket.
It is also required for the following:
Unlock Mac from Apple Watch
Unlock with iPhone
Yes, but both of those things also require a password to be set on the watch, doesn't it?
They do.
If y’all ain’t using passcodes on Apple Watch you’ll not be able to use that either.
But you can still update an Apple Watch without having to add a passcode.