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(Not) unlocking iPhone with Apple Watch when wearing a mask was driving me crazy in iOS 14.5. It worked two or three times and then stopped working until I disable/enable this feature.

Thanks god they fixed it in 14.6

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I've found that I have to hold the watch very close to get it to work.

I'd think that they intended it to be on the same wrist as the hand holding the phone, but does anyone do that? I'm left handed and wear watches on the right wrist, and that pattern is practically universal in my experience.

Not in my experience: Watch on my left and iPhone in my right. Seems to work all the time, haven’t noticed any issues thus far.

I am right handed and wear apple watch on the right wrist from the day 1. :) But yeah, it's rare.

Also, I really tried to find any technical details on how close Apple Watch should be for this feature to work, but with no success.

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