Handoff wont work

I'm having this problem, and i couldn't find any other thread online talking about it. I have a small home kit setup, and it's not available on my watch, which is obviously, a major bummer.

i'm on a apple watch sport, and an iphone 6+ with iOS 8.3.

It isn't supposed to work like you are wanting it to.

it's actually supposed to work exactly like that (for both of our problems) The watch in my case, implores me to turn handoff on to enable this functionality. It's already on, and has been toggled, restarted (as the phone has etc.)

i have had handoff work once when i answered a call on the watch. i saw the icon on the lock screen and it worked to switch the call to the phone. for everything else, i get the same results as you.

apoc_reg wrote:

User guide stating this should work - https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apdc40081790

I don't see any evidence in that video that you can finish a message started on the watch or vice versa.

i have had handoff work once when i answered a call on the watch. i saw the icon on the lock screen and it worked to switch the call to the phone. for everything else, i get the same results as you.

I've not actually tried with a phone call on the watch but I know it works between my iPad and phone or my iPhone and my Mac, but that isn't the issue here, the OP expects that you can continue building a message started on the watch but not sent on the phone. I personally think hand-off with messages means I can send a message from one device and continue the conversation on another, that's not the same as being able to edit half created messages that haven't yet been sent.

User guide stating this should work - https://help.apple.com/watch/#/apdc40081790

I think that says you can finish a reply in mail, it doesn't say anything about being able to do it in messages.

The the guide states it should work in messages. It doesn't specify where exactly I agree but my question was just an example.

I believe it does work in messages, just not as the OP had expected. I don't know what yours does, perhaps you have a problem that I don't, but I can send a message from my watch and see on all my devices that I have sent that message, the recipient can then send me a reply which I can see on all my devices and reply to from any of my devices. This is how I expected hand-off to work and it fulfils my expectations. I didn't expect (which is what I think the OP does) is that I can start a reply on my watch and finish it on another device before sending it, indeed I don't see in any of the links provided that it is suggested that this is possible.

I agree with Winston. You can't handoff midway through a message and the instructions don't say you can. But, the conversation itself should handoff; So whatever conversation you are in on the Watch should handoff to the same conversation on iPhone.

To be sure, please check that Handoff is also turned on on your iPhone in Settings - General - Handoff and Suggested Apps. I think Bluetooth has to be on too (because I know that Suggested Apps use iBeacon which is Bluetooth).

And remember that the other way to get to apps that have been handed-off to the iPhone is in the app switcher. i.e. double click the home button and look to the left of your home menu as pictured. If it's not happening there and restarts and re-pairing of Watch to iPhone doesn't help, you need to escalate with Apple Support again.

Classic Apple Support Forum. Lots of "you're doing it wrong" and not a single actually helpful post.

Anyway, the solution to your problem is to log out and back into iCloud on your phone.

There is no solution because there is no problem.

Hand-off does work with messages but hand-off doesn't mean you can move from one device to another mid-message.

He's really having two problems -- the first one is that Handoff isn't working, period. We can address his misconception about the nature of the feature separately.