Oh that's interesting to know. Most everyone on reddit who had problems had set it up doing transfer (and those who did iCloud or did a full reset with a restore from iCloud) had it working. That sucks that you are having the same issue.
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Apple to Fix Issue Preventing iPhone 13 Users From Unlocking With Apple Watch in Upcoming Software Update
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People who know about reddit are people clever enough to use the device-to-device transfer (which goes much faster, especially when using a wire, and which avoids all but a handful of issues where you need to re-login to anything on the new device), I guess.
I set up with iCloud backup and had the issue. Fixed it though by just backing up and restoring...again
Peoples’ productivity may have been up, but I don’t know how one can do an analysis of working from home via number of bugs discovered, made and fixed. We don’t know the entire picture and can’t prove or disprove any speculation…no matter how just or wild it may seem to be.
What the heck is up with Apple lately??? They had a year to work on an iterative software update (IOS 15) and even then, they released a buggy pile of poop. Maybe they need to bring their employees back to work ASAP because clearly there’s brain-drain at Apple OR their employees got super lazy working from home…. Everything they’ve released this year has been super-lame.
No I disagree. Every product released this year seems half-baked. Both hardware and software. They played it safe this year because they could, but the old Apple quality and ingenuity is slowly eroding. There’s an obvious diminishment in terms of stability from bugs across the board in 2021.
Nope, I used iCloud backup and I’m still impacted by the issue.
How long have you been using Apple devices, my dudes? General advice for stability has *always* been:
* software: wait for first patch or point release
* hardware: Never buy a first revision
and honestly, while this bug is annoying (including to me personally since it affects my phone and I do tend to upgrade early, even if it means dealing with bugs, because I’m impatient
), and shouldn't have slipped through their QA, it’s also not a showstopper. All software has bugs, c’est la vie, Apple will fix this shortly and the majority of people buying a new 13/mini/pro will never see it.This bug isnt an indictment of WFH, stop trying to shoehorn things into that rhetoric, it’s getting old
I restored from backup on my Mac for my new 13 Pro Max. Then I tried to unpair my watch from my old phone and it failed so I had to wipe my watch and restore that too from a back up, quick and easy and I have no issues with my phone unlocking by my watch.
they won’t because there are so few hardware meaningful upgrades than software upgrades are becoming thz most import part of each year update
If you don't want to wait for a software update, do a backup of your new iPhone 13 (Mac or iCloud), then erase all contents and settings, restore from backup and it would fix it.
A lot of us in the thread in the main forum have confirmed that this works.
A lot of us in the thread in the main forum have confirmed that this works.
I love how it just says "iOS 15," as if that's not what we already had installed.
Same thing happens to us beta testers all the time
I am willing to bet this bug, and many other missing features and bugs are the direct result of so many Apple employees working from home. If this is the price we must pay to keep them safe, along with their families, and the people in their communities I am okay with that.
I will take the burden of a software bugs and missing features over spreading to COVID-19 and maxed out ICUs anyway..
