iOS: Watch Kit paired device unavailable for development

Question

I can\'t run my Apple Watch application in XCode. My phone+watch is listed as a \"Unavailable Device\" and says \"paired device unavailable for development\". When I try to laun

Answer 1

For me the only thing that worked was unpairing the watch from the iPhone and setting it up as a new watch (restore from backp didn't work).

I tried unpairing in Xcode, deleting derived/cached data, platform support, restarting Xcode, all combinations of unplugging and restarting! Nothing worked.

Whether it was this nuclear action, or the simple fact that it then goes through the re-authorisation process between the Mac + Watch, we'll never know.

What I do know is that at times Xcode can be shockingly unstable.