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Hi all,
After upgrading to watchOS 7 on Series 3, auto unlock is not working anymore. I get the "activating" message when trying to enable it again on the Mac and then the message I must make sure the watch is unlocked, on my wrist and the phone must be unlocked too. Everything checks out.
Already rebooted Mac and watch. Anyone else having the same problem? thanks!
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Apple Watch Sport
I've finally fixed it! I found a bunch of errors related to "AutoUnlock" in the Console that was hinting to me that there was some invalid state on my Mac with keys and plists not being reset properly.
Steps (follow at your own discretion)
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thanks @stoska992
These steps worked for me after rebooting iPhone. Prior to that, was still getting same error.
l’ve tried this several times. No result. The watch tries to unlock the Mac but is rejected and defaults to the password option.
Quite frankly this is more trouble than it’s worth.
Thanks Chris. The reset Watch with no backup did the trick.
Thanks but still not working. Have tried re-pairing - no joy!
Many thanks - I tried that, no joy! Apple Support have said that their team are aware that there is an issue and are working on it. Hopefully soon resolved. First world problems!
👍🏼 Yes very true! Still, hopefully the new operating systems will sort it out! Good luck!
Try re-enable iCloud in Messages and FaceTime.
Go to preferences/settings in both and uncheck/check "Enable Messages in iCloud" and "Enable this account" respectively.
Did all of the steps and my Watch 6 unlocked the Mac. But only once. Back to the original problem.
U r a genius!!!! It works again like normal, thank you soooo much dude!!!
Worked for me too. Thanks for being so generous with your knowledge.
Thanks a lot. Everyhing worked after restarting the Mac.
Thanks - those extra steps are what worked for me - re-start all Apple devices (well, watch, phone, iPad and Macbook, anyway). Worked when nothing else did!
Didn't work! Any other ideas?
Mac not unlocking after watchOS 7 update
