apple watch not able to unlock phone

Its about 50 / 50 success rate with me. 

Truly my favourite moment is the Passcode screen advising me to unlock the iPhone so that the Watch can unlock it. Instructions about as clear as those for Tracking Transparency (hint: turned off or on, its still on).

And after I do unlock the phone via the Passcode, my wrist then buzzes to advise me the Watch unlocked it. Sigh. 

Updates and hard reboots of both have accomplished nothing. All settings are correct - or I wouldn't have the limited success I do have.

I kinda think Apple needs to get folks back to work at the donut. Clearly this working from the kitchen table at home thing has does things to their coding skills. Mind you, there was the original Apple Maps...

Still, it would be nice if the app worked as intended consistently.

Thanks for the suggestion jonson_ng, but both are running as a matter of course already. Like I said, I get about 50/50 success rate with this, even when the Watch is on the same wrist as the hand holding the iPhone. So it is capable of working - it just doesn't.

There seems to be no other connectivity issue between Watch and iPhone as far as other apps or Notifications are concerned.

This doesn't appear to be a rare occurrence, either. Noted postings on other sites' Forums with same issue. Doesn't appear to be a model of Watch thing - if both devices can handle their most recent respective OSs, they should work consistently - yet don't.

Disappointing. Another product from Apple's 'You're Holding It Wrong' Department?

Watch won't unlock phone.