Oct 5, 2026, 1:43 AMI spent hours trying to get my ancient Apple Watch to pair with Xcode before giving up and hate ordering a new watch from Amazon.
- Oct 5, 2026, 1:43 AM
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- Oct 5, 2026, 10:55 PM
Apple lead origami designer really needs to take a break, a simple tab is probably fine…
- Oct 6, 2026, 4:14 AM
After dozens of attempts, reboots, different machines, I finally got the new watch to pair with Xcode. The key seemed to be to connect the phone via USB and then turn off WiFi (seems to take a few times of toggling to work) and then doing the pairing procedure on the watch.
I went and then tried the same procedure on my super old watch and it showed up as already paired, so I don’t even know WTH is going on.
dxzdbdxzdb@mastodon.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:03 AM@paul @atp.fm
you might need this: https://atp.fm/710 ~58:12 @marcoarment describes the ridiculousness that it takes to get a new watch into developer mode connected to #xcode
Oct 5, 2026, 11:13 AM@paul Try adding the watch when the paired iphone is powered off...
Oct 5, 2026, 7:12 PM@paul future prediction: you will also spend hours trying to pair new watch in Xcode.
- Oct 5, 2026, 7:15 PM
@todd yeah pretty sure that’s true. I think I saw that you could get a cable somewhere, guessing that’s more reliable but for sure don’t want to spend enough time doing watch stuff to require that.
nSonicnSonic@troet.cafeOct 6, 2026, 5:39 AM@paul „YOU SHALL NOT WRITE WATCH APPS“
*deep voice with too much reverb coming somewhere out of a giant donut building*Maybe it’s a kind of hint that they are working on some completely new/different watch versions 🫣 (no, I don’t really believe that too)
softdrinksoftdrink@mastodon.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:55 PM@paul It just works...eventually
Sam Deanesamdeane@mastodon.org.ukOct 6, 2026, 3:58 PM@paul I think you may have fallen for Apple’s current plan (seeing as how you now have twice as many watches…)