Xcode: iPhone is busy: Preparing the watch for development via iPhone

Often when I try to use Xcode to build and run an app on my iPhone I have to wait a long time because a message is displayed.

This was not a problem prior to Xcode 13.

My iPhone and Watch have the latest public releases of the OS installed (no betas) and I'm using Xcode 13.2.1 on Monterey 12.1

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Jan 2, 2022 1:08 PM

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1 reply

tanoi

Level 1

13 points

Feb 8, 2022 10:49 PM in response to ben_thomas

I have the same problem and I don't know how to thur this unwanted feature OFF.

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Xcode: iPhone is busy: Preparing the watch for development via iPhone

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