iphone 12 does not unlock apple watch after iOS 14.7.1 update
Why does iphone 12 not unlock apple watch after iOS 14.7.1 update?
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Why does iphone 12 not unlock apple watch after iOS 14.7.1 update?
According to:
If your iPhone doesn’t unlock your Apple Watch after updating to iOS 14.7 - Apple Support
iOS 14.7.1 should have fixed that issue. All I can suggest is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
also, see all the replies to:
After iOS 14.7.1 update my iPhone doesn't… - Apple Community
According to:
If your iPhone doesn’t unlock your Apple Watch after updating to iOS 14.7 - Apple Support
iOS 14.7.1 should have fixed that issue. All I can suggest is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
also, see all the replies to:
After iOS 14.7.1 update my iPhone doesn't… - Apple Community
As I stated in my 2nd sentence, "This is a bug"
I've went on to explained how you can live with it until Apple fixes it.
Otherwise, you can send Apple Watch Feedback
https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.htm
Or you can get an https://developer.apple.com free account and file a bug report.
Turn off "Unlock with Apple Watch" under iPhone settings -> Face ID & Passcode (for touch ID, it may be slightly different title).
This is a bug, and Apple will most likely issue an update in the next few days/weeks.
If you want both, you may be able to do the following dance (assuming you have Face ID; not sure if this will work for Finger Print Reader iPhones):
o iPhone screen blank (screen off)
o Raise Apple Watch until the numeric passcode unlock screen appears.
o Then immediately wake the iPhone and unlock it.
If you wake the iPhone too early, it will not work.
If you wait too long to wake and unlock the iPhone, it will not work.
NOTE: You may find suggestions to Unpair and pair the Apple Watch again. This ONLY appears to work, because that turns off "Unlock with Apple Watch". It a lot of work, to turn off the option you can do yourself in just a few seconds.
I’ll rephrase. Apple Watch will not unlock with iPhone12 after iOS 14.7.1 update. The watch used to unlock if worn while the phone was just unlocked but not swiped up. Still on the Lock Screen with padlock unlocked with Face ID. Now the watch often will not unlock even when the phone is unlocked and swiped up to the Home Screen. When the watch does unlock, the phone must be unlocked with faced and swiped up to the Home Screen. This is a step back in functionality. Nobody likes that. I’ve tried turning the functionality off and back on, both the watch and the phone. Also tried unpairing, resetting and restoring from backup then repairing the watch to the phone. No help.
iphone 12 does not unlock apple watch after iOS 14.7.1 update