“Log in from the paired iPhone” coming up on Facebook Messenger app on Apple Watch series 4

Same here! I’ve done deleted off watch and phone.. I have a series 4 too! Just started happening with the log in from paired iPhone when I did the software update.. ive reset the watch everything. Still won’t work.

I have Apple Watch Series 5 and iPhone X, but it seems that the issue is caused by the latest update of Messenger for iOS, regardless of the Watch and iPhone model you use. I've called Polish Apple support today to ask if they know something about. They've already had one other request to look into this issue and it seems the problem is the app itself, not Apple software. For example, I use an app called Telegram. It works on the same principle and there's no logging/pairing issues. To sum up, it seems we have to wait patiently for Facebook to graciously clean their mess.

Thank you this was very helpful and solved my problem! I just want to add to follow #7 carefully. I had to make sure I was LOGGED OUT of messenger to get it to work . It did not work the first time when I simply clicked on my name to install it on my phone and then installed it on my watch. Kudos to the person who fixed yet another apple flaw!

Is a mockery! You have to go to the tricks that use the application. After installation and authorization, I have a blocked watch when a community appears on the screen about the ability to add a phone number to improve the service. But here the parody service from this will only get WORSE!

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.

This is the one that worked for me! I think the key was deleting Facebook. I had it deactivated and still got the message. Deleting Facebook app from my phone and messenger from my phone and watch and then re-loading them & opening watch app before logging in on phone. Thank you thank you thank you.

Same here. I've tried all of the above-mentioned solutions. Deleting Facebook and Messenger from iPhone and iWatch helps, I see the tiny loading icon and then the most recent messages, but as soon as I close the app from the App Switcher view on iPhone, the "Log in from the paired iPhone screen" reappears, even though I AM logged in on a paired iPhone. It seems there's something seriously screwed up with logging to Facebook and/or Messenger in 267.0 version.

Update:

It did this again when i completely closed the app on my phone while it was still open on my Apple watch. To fix that i just did the steps I mentioned & it is now working again. My theory is that Apple watches mirror what you do on your iPhone so another possible solution would be to close the app on the watch first before closing it on the iPhone. Lets hope Facebook release an update for the Messenger app to fix this as it is very frustrating.

I have just messed around with this for ages! So frustrating! I took the app off my phone and watch re-installed on both. Opened the app on my phone but didn’t click continue just left that screen on then opened on the watch and asked to allow notification click don’t allow on the watch then go back to the phone and click continue onto your profile then it popped up! I tried all the other steps several times and this was the only one that worked. Hope it works for you to :)

Exactly. When you close Messenger on iPhone (for example, using the App Switcher option), the "log in form the paired iPhone" screen reappears on the Watch and there seems to be no permanent solution for this issue.

It appears to be related to when the iPhone app asks for cellphone number (which in my case, it actually already has) then this screen appears on the watch. It’s clearly a bug. It can be temporarily fixed as stated but the problem will creep back until the developers fix the bug

Thank you so much for this step by step guide. I had to get a new phone and kept having this error. I deleted app from phone and uninstalled watch about 3 times without fixing the problem before I found your answer. The fact that you are deleting and reinstalling individually works!!!!

You’re a life saver from having prevented me from going crazy.

Hi, I followed the steps suggested by camelia225 (see above) and it worked, just keep in mind to manually log into your messenger account after you are prompted if the user is you, don’t just click on your username, instead click on log in as another user, type your email and password manually while your watch is nearby and it will be logged in as well. Hope this helps.

My watch was working fine after I did all my steps yesterday but today is back doing the same thing log from the paired iPhone. So I did the steps again and it work but when I close the app on my phone my watch is telling me again log in from the iPhone

please help someone

thank you

I have same problem. I bought my watch yesterday and i am able to use messenger until i need to add my phone number, after that "log in from paired iPhone" came up again. Does anyone know what to do?