13.3: Continuity totally broken? [FIXED in 13.3.1]

[3460169]

Continuity has been working for me consistently but I'm not sure what combination of throwing 💩 at the wall actually fixed it. I suspect it was mostly to do with the Keychain stuff which I discussed in the other thread about the Apple Watch Unlock issues, but it also included:

• toggling all handoff and continuity stuff off on all devices and keeping it that way for some time (couple hours at most)
• restarting BT on all devices. (on Macs this is a pain potentially, you need to be sure to wire your BT keyboard and mouse at lease temporarily)
• rebooting, I don't know how many times.
• toggling all that stuff back on. In the case of the Keychain changes, I actually had Keychain Access.app opened on the Macs and waited for those entities to repopulate automatically, which they did after some time.

The one thing I did not do and wanted to avoid if at all possible was log out of my iCloud account and back in. I avoided this only because I have a ton of data in iCloud Drive, etc, that I didn't want removed and re-downloaded from the systems.

We'll see if it all continues to hold. It's been a few days already and so far it has been holding. 🤞🏼

 

[Stealthgyro]

Glad I'm not taking crazy pills, might as well contribute my info. I had no issued before the iPad and MacOS update... I wish now I hadn't done them at the same time.

• iPad Air (4th generation) 16.4 (Also freshly updated)
• MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB Ventura 13.3

I've done a lot that was mentioned in this thread. I got it to work for a day after rebooting the Mac. Though it randomly died on me the following day.

EDIT: I have not tried re-logging iCloud... but reboots being a temporary solution, I'd be surprised if that ends up being a fix.

EDIT2: I've re-logged and it is working today so far... although I had to toggle the iPad as a screen to arrange it then back to kb/m control and it seems to work. So hopefully this sticks.

EDIT3: re-log holding strong this morning.

 

[Gian-Pa]

I tried logging out & logging back in from iCloud on two MacBook Pros and it didn't work for me

- MacBook Pro M2 - macOS Ventura 13.3
- MacBook Pro M1 Pro - macOS Monterey 12.6.3

The only thing I haven't tried yet, is rebotting

 

[MikeG17901]

Sign out / sign in to icloud on all devices.

I have it working fine on a 5G Ipad Air, iPhone 13 PM, 2020 M1 Air / Ventura, a 2014 Mac Mini (with OCLP / Ventura) and a 2014 iMac (OCLP / Ventura).

 

[chislon]

I had the same issue. Finally restarting all devices solved it.

I logged out of iCloud on the Mac (PITA) and then rebooted both devices. It also fixed the Watch unlock problem

 

[ignatius345]

I logged out of iCloud on the Mac (PITA)

Massive PITA. Honestly it's so disruptive I rarely use it as a troubleshooting step.

 

[Oh-es-Ten]

Logging out of iCloud just should not be a solution really, it's the nuclear option. I had considered it, but today after a reboot Continuity Camera and Handoff starting working again (rebooted MBP, iPhone, and Apple Watch Ultra). I genuinely think this could have been iCloud server-side related somehow. Already did reboots before but no idea why this one seems to have made it work again. Not ideal for end users though.

 

[tabasko]

I was really not up for disconnecting and reconnecting my apple ID. I have tens of thousands of photos, and several hundred gigs of files on iCloud. It takes a little time but everything is back to normal on Handoff and Universal Control.

Since I have backups everywhere, I went for it.
I finally did it, and it's back in order (the last 48 hours)

 

[osplo]

So, we may say that the "continuity totally broken" is now working fine?

 

[mxrider88]

So, we may say that the "continuity totally broken" is now working fine?

No it doesn’t

 

[nihil0]

It might suffice to kill the bluetooth daemon but I haven't tried it myself.

From the terminal you'd do something like

sudo killall bluetoothd

This has worked for me. Also, the iCloud log-out but it is PITA. So it seems like something with Bluetooth daemon could be the problem. And it is not just Continuity - the Apple Pay via iPhone/Watch doesn't work as well.

 

[vince22]

EDIT: To correct terms. It's not just Handoff that's busted, but most aspects of Continuity on macOS.

Continuity and things related to it seems totally broken and unusable since Ventura 13.3 and iOS / iPadOS 16.4. I have four devices I use daily:

• iPad Pro 11" 2nd gen
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• M1 Max Mac Studio
• M2 MacBook Air

I cannot get Continuity operations to work between any combination of any of these devices whatsoever, whether that be:

• Universal Control (which I rely heavily on and this is quite crippling to my workflow)
• Universal Copy/Paste
• handing off arbitrary applications (Safari, iMessages, etc)

Did the usual dance of disabling/enabling stuff on all devices, rebooting, etc. Nothing has helped this.

Anyone else seeing the same? Since all devices are affected I suspect this might be somehow related to iCloud but I haven't yet defaulted to logging out and back into iCloud (because of the amount of data involved e.g. my gargantuan photo libraries).

No issues here, 2012 13”MBP Ventura 13.2.1, early 2015 13” MBP Ventura 13.4 beta, iPhone 14 Pro max. All working Universal Control, Paste, handoff safari , messages etc.

 

[3460169]

This has worked for me. Also, the iCloud log-out but it is PITA. So it seems like something with Bluetooth daemon could be the problem. And it is not just Continuity - the Apple Pay via iPhone/Watch doesn't work as well.

Good to know that killing bluetoothd helped!

As for Apple Pay, it's among the many features under the Continuity umbrella.

Continuity features and requirements for Apple devices - Apple Support

Continuity features make it seamless to move between your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro devices that meet the system requirements.

support.apple.com

 

[Stealthgyro]

I see 13.3.1 is fixing auto unlock with Apple Watch, I wonder if that fixes most people's issue (my log-out back in is still holding strong... I'm scared to mess with my workflow by updating so holding for now.)

 

[nihil0]

Looks like it also fixed Continuity problems. At least I've had no issues since the update.

 

[Stealthgyro]

13.3.1(a) may have broken it again -.-

 

[mxrider88]

13.3.1(a) may have broken it again -.-

I didn’t update.. really though?????

 

[kittonian]

Just got a new M2 Ultra Mac Studio and it's running 13.4. Been trying a million different things for hours now and neither AirDrop nor Handoff works with my iPhone XR (16.5). I've rebooted, toggled, etc. I can use my iPhone as my FaceTime camera, but I really need AirDrop and Handoff. Any thoughts?

 

[Borga]

On my 2019 iMac running the latest version of Ventura continuity camera works flawlessly between that and my iPhone 12pro.

I got a new M2 Max Studio yesterday and could not get continuity camera to work. Today I spent 90 minutes on the phone with a senior Apple tech. We went so far as completely erasing and reinstalling the macOS and wiping my iPhone clean too. After doing that it worked upon the first attempt, but not after that. We also tried creating a new user account, signing into my gf’s Apple ID and using her iphone. The result was the mostly same - it worked a couple times but not at all reliably. Airdrop and handoff seemed to work ok though, with both her phone and mine, but not continuity camera.

The end result is that the Mac Studio is getting sent back for a refund and I placed an order for a replacement. But after reading about so many people having other issues I’m dubious that it was some sort of hardware issue.

 

[mxrider88]

I can confirm it’s a software issue, I went through a 12” MacBook, a MacBook Air M1 and a MacBook Air m2 and continuity just sucks.
Lately when I switch between user accounts on the MacBook Air m2 I end up not being able to open files with a double click. The files are opening with minutes of delay, I switch back and forth between accounts and it starts working again, most of the times. Apple tries to trouble shoot it as if my laptop was slow. Opening the files through the contextual menu File-Open, opens them INSTANTLY. But they think the mac is slow and tell me to delete some apps and try again. They just can’t wrap their head around it.

We are dealing with a 3 trillion company with a bunch of idiots writing code.

 

[nbnbxdnb]

Try to check if any apps you have interfere with network traffic, like a VPN or alt DNS server. I helped a friend with his mac computer and ios devices that had this issue. Restarting/handoff on&off/log in&out were also tested. But nothing worked. Changing VPN settings turned out to be the solution. No idea what was changed in the OS caused this issue though.