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Chips Stephens

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Apr 27, 2020
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If you have updated wifi and blue tooth cards and have hand off working on the 5,1 but no go on apple watch unlock.
this got me working. no "cat" needed.

disable sip, boot to recovery,/utilities/termanal/ type

csrutil disable

reboot.

in termanal enter

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:Mac-F221BEC8:ContinuitySupport true" "/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist

this will whitelist the old mac,
you can reboot to safe mode and 'csrutil enable' to start sip again.

this has worked for me with mojave and high serra, on apple watch 5.
has not worked in Catalina with the dosdude patched thingy.

hope this is useful to someone.
 
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