pair apple watch with Mac Mini

How does one pair an Apple Watch with a Mac Mini or a MacBook Air to allow auto unlock with the watch?

MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 4:10 AM

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Sep 22, 2016 4:13 AM in response to Tom Phillips

Hi


Apple Watch cannot be paired to a Mac Mini or MacBook Air.


To set up and use Apple Watch requires iPhone 5 or later running the latest version of iOS:


Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


Once the watch has been set up in conjunction with your iPhone, one of the available features under macOS Sierra and watchOS 3 is to bypass the process of manually entering a password on your Mac (mid-2013 and later) when waking it from sleep.


Full instructions and requirements are available here:


Automatically unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch - Apple Support

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