“The thing that's really helped, and it's not a solution for everybody by any means, but using the Apple Watch to unlock it, which you can enable, has just been a game changer.”

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enabled Apple Watch unlocking for iPhone Duo Touch ID and used it as primary unlock method

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“All I have to do is click the side button to lock the phone. Click it again to unlock it. And then use Touch ID. But then just by locking it, unlocking it, then autocorrect is back.”
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“The Duo is just, I would say, 95% of the time the Watch unlocks and I'm fine.”
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“About 21 minutes in, an agent unlocked the environment and pushed code because that's the task. It wasn't malicious, just helpful.”
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