I cannot seem to enable Unlock my Mac with my new Apple Watch Series 3. Worked fine on my Series 1, but is telling me my Mac is not compatible and needs to be updated. Anyone else? Any ideas?
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I talked to Apple Support at length this morning.
They had me turn off handoff on everything, unpair the watch, repair the watch (which takes forever). Still didn't fix it.
Then they told me that they think the issue is that you need High Sierra to make it work with Series 3. He was a senior advisor and eventually found some notes from someone else who had the same issue.
For those of you who report it is working, are you using High Sierra (beta I guess?)
I am using Sierra 10.6.12 and it says I need to upgrade OS to use the feature on my 2016 mac pro. However, I AM on the latest OS.
Very odd.
Can confirm, Series 3 unlocks High Sierra. I’ve been on beta since day one. Had to reconnect my iPhone for some reason to get my watch to talk to my MacBook though, weird.
Does the Series 3 unlocks the Mac at a faster rate?
