Unlock with Apple Watch not working with mirroring

[fleeper]

I cannot seem to get my Mac Mini on Sequoia to unlock with my Apple Watch now that iPhone mirroring is implemented. Is there a setting I am missing?

Thanks.

 

[fleeper]

I am still having this issue and now everytime my machine sleeps, and i wake it and put in my PW, it has a message box saying that it rebooted when it hasn't. Anyone else seeing anything like this?

 

[transmaster]

macOS 15 release day version.
I am unable to set up my Apple Watch to unlock the Mac. It unlocks my iPhone just fine. I know what I need to do, sign the watch into iCloud in the Apple Watch App. There is no place in this app to show if I am signed into iCloud or not.

 

[dmccloud]

Did you go into System Settings - Touch ID & Password and make sure the option to unlock your Mac using an Apple Watch is still checked? Your watch should be signed into your Apple ID during setup of the device, which would enable iCloud-related features as well.

 

[transmaster]

We are talking about a Mac Studio. This what I get after signing into to enable it. Looking at the Watch app on the iPhone I cannot find this. It must be signed in but I can find nothing that tells me one way or another.

 

[transmaster]

The watch is loaded with watchOS 11, I never had to do anything like this with Sonoma.

 

[dmccloud]

We are talking about a Mac Studio. This what I get after signing into to enable it. Looking at the Watch app on the iPhone I cannot find this. It must be signed in but I can find nothing that tells me one way or another.

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That is the option that needs to be enabled, not in the Watch app on your phone.

 

[MacCraig Pro]

Working fine here on an M1 MacBook Air, have you tried removing and re-adding?

 

[Grumpus]

We are talking about a Mac Studio. This what I get after signing into to enable it. Looking at the Watch app on the iPhone I cannot find this. It must be signed in but I can find nothing that tells me one way or another.

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There is a toggle button, to the right of the text Apple Watch, on the image you posted. What happens if you click it?

 

[transmaster]

A first it asks for your Mac sign in password. with that entered you get the screenshot I posted. If you try to move it back the the activated position it bounces back, with the text message you see.

I just got off the phone with Apple support. The lady took me through signing out of iCloud and signing back in. She also showed me how set the Mac so it does not need sign in credentials unless I log out of my account, or reboot it. After I logged back into my iCloud account, which was a multi step thing, the watch successfully paired up with the Mac. The log out/in was not in an easy to find place for a person that has not dug into the innards of macOS. I learned a great deal today.