Unlock with Watch showing wrong series and doesn't work

On my Mac Mini running Mac OS 12.6 Monterey, with a Series 8 Watch running WatchOS 9.0.2, unlocking with Watch won't work.


In System Preferences > Security & Privacy, I see my old Series 5 Watch and a Series 6 Watch I've never owned and nobody else in the family has had one either. The Series 8 doesn't show up and unlock with Watch doesn't work. Weirdly, if I select the Series 6 Watch it enables and I don't get a "couldn't communicate with Apple Watch" error.


The Series 8 Watch is correctly showing up as a linked device on iCloud.


Any ideas, is this a bug?



Mac mini, macOS 12.6

Posted on Oct 14, 2022 6:47 AM

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