Wireless connection is too weak to unlock with apple watch

I've been reading a few complaints on this lately and I've also been experiencing the issue with both my M1 MBP and M1 Mac Studio. Using Apple Watch Ultra.

Both devices are close enough to my watch. Have rebooted both the watch and MBP and studio. There must be some type of bug and I did not experience this with previous devices.

Mac Studio, macOS 13.1

Posted on Dec 19, 2022 3:31 AM

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leroydouglas

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Dec 19, 2022 12:36 PM in response to adidino

adidino wrote:

I've been reading a few complaints on this lately and I've also been experiencing the issue with both my M1 MBP and M1 Mac Studio. Using Apple Watch Ultra.

Both devices are close enough to my watch. Have rebooted both the watch and MBP and studio. There must be some type of bug and I did not experience this with previous devices.

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