Watch VERY slow to unlock Mac & Apps

[mk313]

I bought a used Watch 5 (Titanium) and added it to my account. It's now my main watch & it's working great, except that it takes a very long time (like 15 seconds-ish) to unlock any apps on my computer. I;'ll get the pop-up that installer, Quicken, etc wants to use my watch to unlock & then it just sits there. These used to open more or less instantaneously on the watch. Any ideas what might be going on, or how I can fix it?

If I switch back to my Aluminum Series 5, things seem to work fine again.

This is the first time that I've set up a second watch as new. I've always just restored from my prior watch, so not sure if I missed a step or if there's something obvious that I set up a long time ago & forgot to do this time.

Thanks in advance.

 

[davetroup]

I am having the same issue over the past few weeks, so it's disappointing there is no solution here. It used to be very fast, now it's so slow as to be worthless. I usually just type the password as it will often time out before the Apple Watch authorization works.