Universal control not working iPadOS 16.4/ Ventura 13.3

Helped only one time. Next day it stopped again. Together with continuity and Copy&Paste via Handoff which isn't working either

iOS 16.4 and Ventura 13.3 has killed my universal control for my iMac 27” and my iPad Pro which were both working seamlessly before up dating. Also my iMac now cannot unlock with Apple Watch 6. The iMac cannot connect (sync) with my watch. Thank you Apple. How can we fix this?

Been having this problem all week. Just drops out randomly between two M1 Macs (one mini, one MacBook). Usually have to reboot one of the machines to get a chance of it working again. Highly annoying.

I stumbled upon this Handoff issue with iOS/iPadOS 16.4 after I found that Universal Clipboard is working only iPhone-to-Mac and iPad-to-Mac, but NOT Mac-to-iPad, Mac-to-iPhone or iPad-to/fro-iPhone. Needs an immediate fix.

Agreed - again and again Apple are dropping the ball on bug fixes and quality control. I have been a full-on iPhone / Mac / iPad / HomePod / Apple Watch consumer for many years, but I can see the company's software products' quality control slipping all the time. It's a downward trend.

"All of these means just one thing: Universal Control is buggy and dead. It is not an issue of the network, or connectivity, or Bluetooth."

I can't agree more than this comment. I had placed high expectations on this features, every useful, and had been using it frequently until the latest three versions of Mac-ISO it started to fail almost 60%. Please put effort to fix it. Thanks!

@AmitSeal,

Agree ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. I have wasted far too many hours trying to get Universal Control to work and after having literally logged out of iCould on all of my devices and then logged back in, I was able to get it to work again - for less than a week. After a few days, I started getting random disconnects. As of today, I cannot connect at all and get a "device timed out" message re: my iPad.

Earlier in the day, I could get extended desktop to work (but not shared keyboard and mouse, my preferred setting). With this current failure, nothing works - not even extended desktop.

Whatever happened to "it just works"? It seems those days are far behind us.

Apple - if you are listening, this is hugely frustrating. I had come to rely on Universal Control and now it seems that I must make big changes to my workflow, given the loss of a working feature.

EDIT to include OS: MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1, iPadOS 17.3.1

(and as I write this, it started to work again... temporarily, no doubt. I fully expect another failure any minute now)

Please fix !!!

Seems only the connections to the Mac are broken. Copy&Paste via Handoff between iPhone and iPad still works fine.

It was a very important feature to me. I used it all the time.

I hope they will fix it very quickly.

I had some small success, although after I removed my cursor from the iPad the issue started again.

So no final resolution.

Today it worked again. Mac was shut down yesterday and restarted today but iPhone and iPad had been on since.

So no idea why it sometimes works but other times doesn’t.

Unfortunately, it is not solving for indefinitely.

Still does not work.

Same with me. Devices are M2 iPad Pro 11" & M2 MacBook Pro 13".