Is your Apple Watch having trouble reliably "Unlocking my Mac."

There are a lot of questions about this issue in the Community. Unfortunately, most are closed because 'no one has commented in a while.' Some of these discussions are about a year old. Doesn't seem too old to me, but what do I know. Anyway...I have a 2018 Mac Mini and it has never been able to use my Apple Watch (Ultra 2 at this moment in time) to reliably Unlock my Mac. What I do know is there is a collection of strategies that work for some and don't work for others regarding this issue. So for those of you who are still looking for a resolution to this problem, I created a video of what FINALLY worked for me about a month ago and continues to work EVERY SINGLE TIME. It's an incredibly hidden setting. If you watch the video, you'll understand why it took me so long to discover it. https://youtu.be/1rkKNyg-d4U?si=8G-hFiRfsoIQg0M2

Apple Watch Ultra 2, watchOS 11

Posted on Jan 23, 2025 02:25 PM

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Jan 24, 2025 12:25 PM in response to Mr. Luigi

Hey, I just watched your video, and while I did not have the exact same issue as you, I did notice that the option "for requiring administrator password to access system wide setting" was not turned on in my settings. I turned it on, and then went to check that the Apple Watch feature was enabled. It wasn't, so I turned it back on and now things are working again. One of the updates to macOS 15.2 must have reset it.



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