Unlock iMac with Apple Watch not working

My husband and I both have the OS current on our iMacs and Apple Watches. We also are not using internet sharing nor screen sharing. We both followed instructions to turn off the feature, restarted our iMacs, turned the feature back on, without resolving the problem. We even ran the Disk Utility. This feature was working terrifically until our recent update to MacOS Ventura 13.3.1, which resulted in this feature not working. Has anyone else had this problem?

Apple Watch Series 8, watchOS 9

Posted on May 17, 2023 2:34 PM

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Posted on May 19, 2023 7:26 AM

This happened to me last year with Monterey- it just stopped working! However, this solved the issue for me:

Un-pair the watch from the iPhone, reboot both devices, pair the watch to the phone and see if the "Open apps ....." reappears in system preferences. I appreciate that you are using Ventura but it may be worth un-pairing and re-pairing both watches if you haven't done so already.

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May 19, 2023 7:26 AM in response to Marilyn Howard

This happened to me last year with Monterey- it just stopped working! However, this solved the issue for me:

Un-pair the watch from the iPhone, reboot both devices, pair the watch to the phone and see if the "Open apps ....." reappears in system preferences. I appreciate that you are using Ventura but it may be worth un-pairing and re-pairing both watches if you haven't done so already.

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