Really if we stop to think and meditate on the news that Apple has introduced in macOS Sierra we can see that there are few. One of the ones that attracted the most attention was the possibility of being able to unblock the login of our Mac with the Apple Watch, a function that is only limited to devices manufactured after 2013, a limitation that Apple has us used to unfortunately. As happened with the arrival of Handoff and Continuity with OS X Yosemite, a function limited to Macs as of 2012, thanks to a small trick for users with Bluetooth 4.0 on their Mac and who had been left out of being able to enjoy this option, they were able to enable it and make use of it.
This time the solution is not so simple, since he wants us to buy a device, an AirPort card that supports AC WiFi, which costs $ 40 at Amazon, card that we will have to replace with the one used by our MacBook. It is a cheap option, without we have no short-term plan to renew our Mac but we want to continue enjoying the latest news that Apple is including in each new version of macOS that it launches each year.
This little trick has been discovered by a Reddit user, under the pseudonym jjborcean, who claims to have made this little fix on his MacBook to be able to unlock his MacBook with the Apple Watch, in addition to being able to take advantage of it for future news that Apple brings us in the next versions of macOS.
The device in question is available on the following link, is priced at $ 40 and hardly requires computer skills to open the MacBook Pro and change it. What must be borne in mind that the Auto Unlock function is only available if the Mac restarted after sleep, not if we turn it on from scratch. If we do not usually leave it idle, this function may not be as useful as we thought at first.
I am a user of several Apple products, One of the things that infuriates me is the following, with my iPhone 5S I can pass, for example, a photo via bluetooth to a cheap laptop from the year of the slap, but to my MacBook Pro from 2012 I CAN'T because it is not supported. This really makes me angry, why can a compa with a cheap cell phone and a laptop do things that I can't? take me the ...
Hello, I bought a 2013 adapter for my MacBook Pro mid 2012 through Aliexpress (it was not compatible with Apple Watch unlocking) it took a month to arrive, so I installed the new wifi card myself and I tell you that it worked perfectly. now my Apple Watch unlocks my macbook 2012. I thought it was not true but it is a reality….
I invite you to do it, it was very easy, it only took 10 minutes to do it, nothing at all had to be installed….
Hello, I bought a 2013 adapter for my MacBook Pro mid 2012 through Aliexpress (it was not compatible with Apple Watch unlocking) it took a month to arrive, so I installed the new wifi card myself and I tell you that it worked perfectly. now my Apple Watch unlocks my macbook 2012. I thought it was not true but it is a reality….
I invite you to do it, it was very easy, it only took 10 minutes to do it, nothing at all had to be installed….