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Help please. It worked fine with Catalina but ever since upgrading it won't recognize the watch when I try to turn on the option in System preferences. Both Mac and watch are connecting to the same wifi and the watch has the most recent iOS upgrade.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.6
Let me guess, when you try to select "Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac", it reports "unable to communicate with Apple Watch" even though it is on your wrist, unlocked, and all the numerous system requirements are met. Everything was working fine, then you upgraded macOS and it stopped working. Is that correct?
For reference, please review all the steps in Unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch - Apple Support including "How to set up Auto Unlock." Then, confirm you already tried the three steps under "If you need help."
Specifically these two (emphasis added):
If you exhaust every possible solution in that Support document and it still isn't working, I suggest you forget about it for at least 24 hours. Because that's what I did, and a day or two later it just started working again. I did nothing.
Let me guess, when you try to select "Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac", it reports "unable to communicate with Apple Watch" even though it is on your wrist, unlocked, and all the numerous system requirements are met. Everything was working fine, then you upgraded macOS and it stopped working. Is that correct?
For reference, please review all the steps in Unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch - Apple Support including "How to set up Auto Unlock." Then, confirm you already tried the three steps under "If you need help."
Specifically these two (emphasis added):
If you exhaust every possible solution in that Support document and it still isn't working, I suggest you forget about it for at least 24 hours. Because that's what I did, and a day or two later it just started working again. I did nothing.
Thank you for the assistance, 'what ultimately worked for me was turning off All VPNs, a suggestion I found income support doc.
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Unable to unlock my iMac with Apple Watch Ultra after upgrading to OS 12.6.5
