Apple Watch unlocks iPhone with masked face in 14.5 beta

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The subject says it all. This brings me an enourmous amount of happiness and I may have just done a little dance :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I’m on the developer betas anyway and installed this immediately last night. Once your watch is also updated and the setting is toggled on it works perfectly. I hope they prompt users to turn this feature on when 14.5 rolls out to everyone!

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It would be great if this works with one watch being able to unlock multiple phones. On the Mac side, my watch can unlock both my MacBook Pro and iMac.

I have personal and work iPhones but the watch is only paired with one of them. I do not want to switch pairing just for working hours and am not going down the multi-watch route.

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I hope 14.5 does not require many betas; I want this!

(but I don’t want to install a beta; in particular not on my watch)

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I definitely wouldn’t recommend it. Restoring it requires a trip to the Apple store or exchanging the device–not ideal considering the mask wearing!!

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What great news, I’m so fed up of entering my PIN code all day when working with a mask on. This update can’t come soon enough!

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If it was easier to update the watch, I would be jubilant finding out about this.
Sadly I will have to wipe my watch again to update, because I don’t have enough space for the update… .

Sorry about the rant, haha.

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I hope that it works with iPad Pros as well.

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I hope that it is turned on by default.

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Is that a really, really, really wouldn’t recommend it or just a it can be a bit hairy wouldn’t recommend it?

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If you’re not a developer do not install developer betas. If something goes wrong rolling things back is really hard, and if you don’t have a developer account then Apple don’t provide help.

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I also had that, but not with watchOS 7.3!

Hope I’m lucky with 7.4 as well…

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If this works as reliably as unlocking my mac with the watch, then I’ll at least be able to enjoy it for a week or so.

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Mine is still working today, but I also don’t have any issues with my Mac unlocking unless it’s been a few days or I’ve restarted.

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