Apple Watch 5 Facebook Messenger

I had this problem setting up a Series 5 Apple watch, but in addition with other apps like Strava.

In order to fix this, I:

1. Updated my watch and iPhone
2. Deleted the app directly from the watch
3. Deleted the app on my iPhone
4. Downloaded the app from the App Store on my watch
5. Opened the app on my watch
6. Downloaded and then opened the respective app from the App Store, this time on my phone
7. When I logged in on the app on my phone, the app on my watch seemed to reboot and login as expected.

Hope this works for you if the other posted solution didn't!

Hi! I agree to @heyoitsme post but I did a little bit different way to do it as it didn’t work on me the first time. First, I unpaired my apple watch from my iphone in the My watch app setting on the phone. Second, I paired them again and click “restore from backup” not the “set as new apple watch” in the phone. Then after it is paired, I followed @heyoitsme steps. Then boom! It finally worked!

Hi,

when it asks for log in from paired phone, force close the app in the apple watch.

open messenger app in iphone. Delete and reinstall it. During log in, Instead of “Continue as” sign in option use the other sign in method by giving your ID and Password.

Now open the messenger app in watch. It will work. Hope it helps.

The solution is to make sure you aren’t automatically logging yourself into messenger on your phone by having an existing account logged in your Facebook app. My steps to get this working again we’re to:

Delete my Facebook app (or possibly log out).

Delete Messenger.

Reinstall Messenger on my phone BUT DO NOT LOG IN YET.

Add Messenger to my watch via the Apple Watch app.

Open the Messenger app on my Watch and see the message saying to log in via your phone.

Now open Messenger on your phone and log in with your username and password.

Hi,

Open Watch App in your iphone—— General ——Check that Background app refresh Turned on—-If turned in then check it turned on for individual app listed below in that.

Mine works now. Reinstalled the app on the watch to get the “log in with paired iPhone” opened the app on my phone and got the loading screen on the watch and it now works.

Afraid it isn’t - force quit Messenger on phone then open, enter (or skip) phone number and look again on watch...

I had an iOS and WatchOS update on monday but the Messenger problem was before that. The problem occurred after the 266.0 Messenger update.

It’s on Facebook. We don’t know when they’ll fix it

Reach out to Facebook for assistance with their product.

The fix listed everywhere works for anywhere from 5-30mins, then the error comes back.

Nothing fixes it, have to wait for an update which sucks

I noticed the same problem with Messenger too, it asks to log in on paired I phone. I have an Apple Watch 5, the problem occurred suddenly last night. I think it is an app related problem, maybe Messenger itself, or something related to the app working with the watch. I am no expert at all but I think this is app related because it has worked faultlessly till now.

Everything is up to date, issue started suddenly May 30th, I believe it is not a personal issue but rather messenger app with Apple watch 5, hopefully the Apple people will check it out and the issue will resolve as fast as it came on. Have a great day everyone.

Has anyone here reached out to Facebook to see what they have to say? If this seems to be such a widespread problem, my guess is they are probably aware of it and may have some support for you to try.

Hi

I had the problem over the weekend by uninstalling and reinstalling I managed to get it going.

But looked today (admittedly after updating both phone and watch) and its asking for login again

can get nothing to work now

i have reported it to Facebook - maybe a good idea if everyone does..

https://m.facebook.com/help/186570224871049?helpref=hc_fnav

thanks