Apple Watch not waking up new iMac

[Bill P.]

Cross post from iMac board:

I have an Apple Watch 1 which isn't waking up my new iMac. I've restarted both with the iMac giving a message that I needed to log in with my passcode after a restart in order for the watch to work, but it still isn't detecting the watch to wake up.

I've also enabled Two-factor authentication on everything as required for this to work.

Thoughts appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[johannnn]

Are you able to activate unlocking in System Preferences or do you get the "Your Mac was unable to communicate with your Apple Watch" error message (which I had problems with) ?

 

[Bill P.]

Are you able to activate unlocking in System Preferences or do you get the "Your Mac was unable to communicate with your Apple Watch" error message (which I had problems with) ?

Hi poobear,

I have unlocked enabled in security & privacy prefs. Any other thoughts??

Thanks,

Bill

 

[mclarendude2]

If your on WatchOS beta i think they haven’t added that back into the setting hope they don’t take it out and add it back in future betas I would hate to see that feature go away

 

[Bill P.]

mclarendude2, no, I'm not running beta.

Bill

 

[mclarendude2]

idk then when i was on watch os 3.3.2 it worked for me

 

[Bill P.]

As it turns out, this new iMac was sitting near my old one, also connected to wifi, etc. Once I boxed up the old one and put it in the other room, the watch and Mac started getting along famously!