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The more crowded your office environment is the more closely in proximity the watch will need to be for the feature to function, reducing the chances of unintended unlocks. Even holding my Apple Watch within inches of the computer doesn’t result in a successful unlock. For instance when covering Houston Astros games on assignment I more often than not have to use Touch ID to unlock my Mac. In noisy RF environments the performance of the Auto Unlock feature is understandably worse. We already allow the use of personal iCloud accounts, with the exception of iCloud Drive (blocked via configuration profile), so that point isn’t a concern for us. So while a bad actor could hide near the computer and time a keypress for when the user walks by, it isn’t like passing your computer will automatically unlock it leaving it vulnerable until the screensaver kicks in again several minutes later. The keyboard must be touched to begin the unlock sequence.

To the second concern, simply being near the computer doesn’t trigger an unlock. There have been numerous times where if I’m oriented the wrong direction, such as putting my left wrist completely on the other side of my body from the computer, that unlocking doesn’t work. I’ve been using the feature for a year now with my personal Apple Watch Series 2 and company 2017 MacBook Pro (15″) w/ TouchBar and in my experience I don’t see these concerns as being issues in day to day usage.įirst, even in ideal environments, the watch needs to be pretty close, within just a couple feet, to succeed with an unlock. It all boils down to the primary concern that simply having the feature enabled would make it easier for an unauthorized person to gain access to the corporate computer (and the data it contains).

I’ve been using it for a while now and don’t see any reason to block it for employee use. But since I could imagine receiving a request from users to enable the feature, I decided I had better start testing it out so a policy could be formed in advance.Īpple calls the feature Auto Unlock. At the time I was still maintaining separate personal and work iCloud accounts to keep everything segregated. When I first saw the subject brought up I hadn’t used the feature myself. Plus, the Watch needs to have wrist detection turned on and be passcode-protected, and it has to be on your wrist and unlocked for the feature to work.The topic of wether or not to allow an employee to use their personal Apple Watch to unlock their work Mac is a discussion that has come up a couple times over the years in the MacAdmins Slack #security channel. It requires both the iPhone and the Watch to have WiFi and Bluetooth turned on. Introduced with iOS 14.5, “Unlock with Apple Watch” allows you to unlock your Face ID-enabled iPhone while wearing a mask without using a passcode or PIN. You might see “Unable to Communicate with Apple Watch” if you try to unlock your iPhone while wearing a face mask, or you might not be able to set up Unlock with Apple Watch.

However, a lot of iPhone 13 owners have reported that the “Unlock with Apple Watch” feature isn’t working with their iPhone 13.Īpple has already admitted that the issue exists and has updated its support page that says “this issue will be fixed in an upcoming software update.”Īpple has identified an issue where Unlock with Apple Watch may not work with iPhone 13 devices. Apple announced its iPhone 13 series last week, and now the much-awaited smartphone has made it to the consumers’ hands.