Since I updated to Mac OS Big Sur, I can’t seem to no longer automatically log on with my Apple Watch s6. Did Big Sur Dropped the feature? Or could I fix it safely? If so, How can i fix it? Thank you!
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
There are settings to try and re-set to establish the Continuity features again.
• Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
Good luck & happy trails!🌞🎣
There are settings to try and re-set to establish the Continuity features again.
• Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
Good luck & happy trails!🌞🎣
Try this, from a Discussion I just replied to. First review all the requirements described in How to unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch - Apple Support which just goes without saying.
Then, open the Messages app and "Sign In" using that Apple ID. On that subject "Sign In" to FaceTime also, just for good measure. I know those apps are unrelated to each other or anything else but for whatever reason those actions have worked for me more than once in the past.
On the other hand I have experienced a similar inability to unlock the Mac that couldn't be circumvented no matter what I did. A day or two later it spontaneously started working again. Give it a day or two. While you wait, you might as well restart the Mac at some point.
I managed to get a case number from Apple Support, but no fix or workaround. I think this is as new to them as it is to us. Got cut off on the phone, and haven't been able to get through to them since early this a.m. for a followup. Not a good day to be calling support, I imagine.
..re: brayozz..
Hard to not assume idiocy when it shows its face without troubleshooting.
All possibilities: including sync between iPhone & Apple Watch. A 1st step
could be use Continuity info to remove Mac & Phone from the equation.
"Nothing to do with the question. Stop assuming that people are idiots.
The AW unlocking feature WAS WORKING before Big Sur." ~ brayozz
Thanks to John Galt's reply, the ideas of troubleshooting are not dead.
Links to Apple Watch and iPhone that I'd assembled toward reply here
have been deleted; but followed similar path to look further, & resolve.
Good luck!🤖💩😜
Nothing to do with the question. The AW unlocking feature WAS WORKING before Big Sur.
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Yeah, but when I wake my computer from sleep, it ask for password every time. And I can’t approve settings anymore with my watch. Did apple dropped the feature? Or how can it be fixed?
I have the exact same problem, still looking for solution. Before Big Sur everything worked fine.
Thanks, vitaly258. That did the trick for me. Simple, too, if you know how -- kinda like Christopher Columbus and the egg. You get the Apple Hero award today, I think. 👍
Thanks Vitaly, that worked for me too.
Bravo vitaly 258. Problem solved
Can’t log in with Apple Watch on Mac OS Big Sur
