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haralds

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Not sure whether anybody has made the same observation, but Watch Unlock has become really flaky for me on both a Mac Studio and a MacBook 13" M1. My Intel MacBook Pro sort of works at times as does my old Air running High Sierra.
This used to be quite reliable. Not sure with what version of Monterey it went south.

I have reset the whole system including deleting key chain items and Shared lock files on all system, rebooting, iCloud log out, reboots, etc.

I can set up the Watch in the security panel, plenty of times the unlock screen indicates, it's trying with the watch. But it plainly is not working. Finger print unlock makes it ok, but it is still not great.

My brother has about 70% success on this systems.

Any observations or other suggested fixes?
 
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