In Beta 2 of Sierra combined with an Apple Watch (watch OS 3 Beta 2) its now possible to aktivate Auto Unlock. I've tried to activate the Checkbox on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) and a Error says, that the Mac couldnt find the Apple Watch. The Watch is on, unlocked and on my wrist. After reboot from Mac and Apple Watch, the option to enable Auto Unlock is not shown anymore.
Any ideas about?
Apple Developer Relations08-Jul-2016 04:40 PM
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Mac MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
Sierra beta 2
iPhone 6, 64GB
iOS 10 beta 2
Apple Watch Sport
WatchOS3 beta 2
And still not visible
Tried:
Turn off 2FA (as they say)
Logout on all devices
Login on MacOS
Turn on 2FA (via MacOS Sierra b2)
Login on iOS / WatchOS
Serveral reboots, because beta software...
And no luck 😢
/Offtopic: Weird that there are so much topic about Auto Unlock, and no Apple Engineer is giving comments...
Was working great for me for a few days. Now it tries to unlock, times out, and presents the password box. Tried all the usual toggling settings, rebooting devices, etc. and it consistently fails to actually unlock now.
Yeterday it started unlocking my rMBP 15" when I walked nearby, even with the lid closed, so overall maybe it's not a bad thing that it isn't working for me right now...
The public beta is same beta 2 and not resolve this problem
>No option under Security and Privacy,
From the latest release notes:
Auto Unlock Users may experience no internet connectivity after a successful Auto Unlock, followed by a reboot of their Mac. Workaround: Turning WiFi Off-On on Mac will restore internet connectivity.
After an erase install, it can take minutes for the “Allow your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac” checkbox to show up in Security and Privacy Preferences on your Mac (while your devices are iCloud pairing). This is normal, and does not happen on upgrade installs.
I am having the same issue. It may be related to the "macOS Recovery HD" update that was pushed out yesterday.
Same here -- tried singing in and out but luck :/
Quick and simple solution:
Sign out your iCloud-Account on your MB, delete all items if asked,
sign in on your iCloud account on your MB.
Now Apple Watch unlock feature is visible
Does anyone know why when Macbook is connected to Wi-Fi, Auto Unlock feature works fine, but does not work when connected to Ethernet? Never would have thought that the Internet Connection seems to be the reason why you can use this feature or not... So long as you allow 2FA on your devices to authenticate who is actually trying to log into the MacBook, which I assumed is the reason why we need to have 2FA working, not base it off of how you're connected to the Internet... Any thoughts or answers?
Watch unlock appears to require authentication through the same iCloud service used by Back to my Mac. I was able to get it working again by disabling and then re-enabling BTMM under the iCloud prefs. I note I have to do this especially often on my rMBP after changing locations (and the associated changes to Wifi and BTMM authentication).
Dissapointing to see that the late 2012 iMac models aren't deemed worthy of the feature. The interesting thing is though that if you search Apple watch in System Preferences search bar it shows the option is coded into System Prefs, just not something you can enable. Really hope they allow that in release. I don't beleive there to be any technical reason why they could not.
Ok...
I install MacOS Sierra 16A254g in my iMac 27" Late 2013 (i7 / 16Gb / GTX 780M / 3Tb fussion) but this auto-unlook options does´t appear... Have iPhone 6s with iOS 10 dev beta 3 and AppleWatch with WatchOS 3 beta 3 too
Hello.
the auto unlock activation with apple watch disappeared in Beta 4 MacOS Sierra? I have an iMac mid 2015 and I'm using MacOS Beta 4.
my devices
apple watch3 beta 4
iMac mind 2015 macOs Sierra Beta 4
iPhone 6S iOS 10 beta 4
thank you for your help.
Wifi is part of it. It appears this feature uses both bluetooth as well as wifi to communicate with Apple Watch for the handshake to occur. (this is part of the reason that earlier Mac's aren't supported - appears there's a feature there that Apple needs for this functionality).
Me, I'm trying to get it to work on my 2008 MacBook Pro, but I have to get the 802.11AC usb wifi adapter working under Sierra PB3 first. 🙂 (yes, I also have a USB Bluetooth adapter that supports 4.0LE as well). Hoping the two of them will make this work for me. (then I'll do the same hack for my 2012 mac mini) 🙂
Well that's unfortunate because half the time my Macbook is connected to Ethernet, not Wifi... Gotta come up with a way to fix that