Some update combinations allowed Watch to unlock iMac in the past. Current OS levels on these two devices do not allow unlocking of iMac by Apple Watch. Is there a solution?
In response to my question above, there were many replies. There was a complex "12 step program" from stoska992. Also, jd2020 replied, and had many more steps, part of which included stoska992's program.
I looked at these, and decided I was going to stay with simply entering the manual unlocking of my iMac. I'd already tried so many alternatives before approaching "The Community." These procedures just seemed to be too much of an additional time sink to be worth even trying. I had resigned myself to having to enter the unlock code manually for ever.
As a throw-away action, I decided to power down the watch; leave it for some minutes before powering up again.
Lo-and-behold: that did the trick! It's working again on my system - no guarantees for others, but just maybe ....
Thanks to all who took the trouble to provide us with their solutions.
In response to my question above, there were many replies. There was a complex "12 step program" from stoska992. Also, jd2020 replied, and had many more steps, part of which included stoska992's program.
I looked at these, and decided I was going to stay with simply entering the manual unlocking of my iMac. I'd already tried so many alternatives before approaching "The Community." These procedures just seemed to be too much of an additional time sink to be worth even trying. I had resigned myself to having to enter the unlock code manually for ever.
As a throw-away action, I decided to power down the watch; leave it for some minutes before powering up again.
Lo-and-behold: that did the trick! It's working again on my system - no guarantees for others, but just maybe ....
Thanks to all who took the trouble to provide us with their solutions.
theok256 wrote:
In response to my question above, there were many replies. There was a complex "12 step program" from stoska992. Also, jd2020 replied, and had many more steps, part of which included stoska992's program.
I looked at these, and decided I was going to stay with simply entering the manual unlocking of my iMac. I'd already tried so many alternatives before approaching "The Community." These procedures just seemed to be too much of an additional time sink to be worth even trying. I had resigned myself to having to enter the unlock code manually for ever.
As a throw-away action, I decided to power down the watch; leave it for some minutes before powering up again.
Lo-and-behold: that did the trick! It's working again on my system - no guarantees for others, but just maybe ....
Thanks to all who took the trouble to provide us with their solutions.
I have seen that twelve step program, and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, I have found doing nothing works just as well.
Wait a day or two, and the "unlock" feature will probably just start working again on its own. I have found that to be the case with several macOS upgrades and / or updates. After exhausting everything else I could think of I gave up and decided to do nothing. No power down, no reboot, no signing in, no unpair / re-pair... nothing.
Nothing beats twelve steps better than zero steps.
I got it to work. Just unpair and pair the watch again
Had the same problem when my Mac was still on Ventura. Was fixed when I updated to Sonoma. If your iMac can't do that, go back to WatchOS 9.
Same here. Still no answer.
Watch running OS 10.2, iMac running Ventura 13.6.3. Watch will no longer unlock iMac
