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VirgilBoy
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2 months ago

"Apple Watch Unlock Stopped Working" Closed But NOT Fixed

This thread was commenced in November 2022 and closed sometime after Aug 2023 comment by 1P_Dave . It is still a VERY frustrating issue that irritates me every day. I have to resynch the setting i...
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1P_Dave
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2 months ago

VirgilBoy

Thanks for the reply. The flow used to unlock your Mac and the flow used to unlock third-party apps both work slightly differently. For example: you need to double-press the side button to unlock both 1Password and macOS system prompts but you don't need to do that to unlock your Mac.

Authenticating a system prompt is more similar to how 1Password uses Apple Watch unlock and can tell us if the issue that you're running into matches the issue that we've reported to Apple.

-Dave