Getting Device Activation Status

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Unlike the iOS SDK, the Watch SDK provides only limited information about activation status. You can actually check only whether there’s locally stored activation on iPhone, or not:

if powerAuthWatch.hasValidActivation() {
    // main application has a valid activation locally stored
}

The hasValidActivation() method is synchronous and reflects only the actual state stored locally on the Apple Watch. To get an update from your iPhone, you can use the following code:

// Lazy version

if !powerAuthWatch.updateActivationStatus() {
    // message has not been issued, WCSession is probably not available / active
} else {
    // message has been issued and it's guaranteed that it will be delivered to iPhone
    // The iPhone has to issue responses in a similar lazy way.
}

// Or asynchronous version...

powerAuthWatch.updateActivationStatus { (activationId, error) in
    let hasActivation = activationId != nil
    if error == nil {
        print("PowerAuth activation is: \(hasActivation ? "VALID" : "EMPTY") on iPhone")
    } else {
        // handle error...
    }
}

The asynchronous updateActivationStatus method can be used only if WCSession reports that the counterpart device is reachable.

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