Problem to unlock my MacBook Pro with my apple watch

On Catalina on my MacBook after reinitialize my applewatch series 4 stop to unlock my MacBook Pro . I've try all the known trick....restart every device including iPhone , hand of and on , wifi off on , check to be sure I've see my watch on iCloud...for localisation..


Had the time to use new feature to unlock app but since reinitialise to get more battery life stops working..

Posted on Sep 20, 2020 12:04 PM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2020 7:33 AM

Here the solution give by Gerhard Leeb


And its works


The unpair/pair solution helped for me as well for the battery drain problem. The „unlock“ problem was solved for me using these steps:


Steps (follow at your own discretion)

  1. Open "Keychain Access"
  2. In "View", enable "Show Invisible Items"
  3. Search for "Auto Unlock"
  4. You should see a whole bunch of application passwords for "Auto Unlock: XXXX's ..."
  5. Select all records and delete (this will reset/disable auto unlock on other Macs if you use multiple Macs)
  6. Whilst still in "Keychain Access", search for "AutoUnlock" (no space)
  7. There should be 4 entries for "tlk" "tlk-nonsync" "classA" "classC"
  8. Select 4 records and delete (don't worry if they re-appear, the system repairs this automatically)
  9. Open "Finder" and navigate to "~/Library/Sharing/AutoUnlock"
  10. There should be two files "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist"
  11. Delete both files
  12. Open "System Preferences" and try enabling auto unlock. You may need to enable it twice, the first attempt will fail.



Little turnaround if you've got a French os version you've got to search and find the file "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist" and delete it because on my Catalina OS I didn't see it...

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Sep 21, 2020 7:33 AM in response to technbiomac

Here the solution give by Gerhard Leeb


And its works


The unpair/pair solution helped for me as well for the battery drain problem. The „unlock“ problem was solved for me using these steps:


Steps (follow at your own discretion)

  1. Open "Keychain Access"
  2. In "View", enable "Show Invisible Items"
  3. Search for "Auto Unlock"
  4. You should see a whole bunch of application passwords for "Auto Unlock: XXXX's ..."
  5. Select all records and delete (this will reset/disable auto unlock on other Macs if you use multiple Macs)
  6. Whilst still in "Keychain Access", search for "AutoUnlock" (no space)
  7. There should be 4 entries for "tlk" "tlk-nonsync" "classA" "classC"
  8. Select 4 records and delete (don't worry if they re-appear, the system repairs this automatically)
  9. Open "Finder" and navigate to "~/Library/Sharing/AutoUnlock"
  10. There should be two files "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist"
  11. Delete both files
  12. Open "System Preferences" and try enabling auto unlock. You may need to enable it twice, the first attempt will fail.



Little turnaround if you've got a French os version you've got to search and find the file "ltk.plist" and "pairing-records.plist" and delete it because on my Catalina OS I didn't see it...

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