The Apple Watch will be used to unlock any Mac password in macOS 10.15

Apple Watch Series 4

Little by little we are getting to know the new arrivals what will the next Mac operating system. This week we are getting to know several news about macOS 10.15. One of them will be expanding interactions between your Mac and Apple Watch. In macOS 10.15 the Apple Watch will allow us to unlock any password, not just access to the computer, if we share Apple ID on the Mac and Apple Watch.

In just over a month the WWDC 2019, where all these news will come to light in the macOS 10.15 betas and in the final version of the software at the end of September.

Apple has taken an important step in unlock passwords in macOS 10.14.4 on models with Touch ID. From now on, we can unlock service passwords with Touch ID, in models with this feature, if we have this password in the iCloud keychain. Furthermore, until now it is possible to use the Touch ID to unlock Mac, Authorize purchases on Apple Pay from the Mac, to authorize actions in Terminal.

MacBook Pro Touch Bar

Apple intends to do all this too when we have the Apple Watch on our wrist. This option We will surely see it in macOS 10.15. All these functions that we can do on Macs with Touch ID will be possible to carry out with the Apple Watch. No further details are known, but the information comes from sources close to macOS developers. It is also not known how it will be implemented this option in the future version of watchOS.

These new features fit with the new version of macOS. Traditionally, Apple releases a version with new features and the following year a version with less news but with general system improvements. This year we are playing a version with news and we are seeing news this week such as segregation of iTunes services in standalone applications such as: Music, Podcast and the TV app. We will also see it is likely to see an expansion of macOS applications to other monitors or even an iPad, thus implementing the Apple ecosystem.


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