IPhone – Apple Watch won’t unlock MacBook Pro unless watch is restarted

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My issue is unlocking my Mac with the Apple Watch feature.
I've read where turning off the watch and phone will then in turn allow me to unlock my Mac. This works, the problem is, I have to do this every single day. Since enabling this feature, I haven't gone two days in a row without having to restart my watch/phone to be able to use this feature. Once I do this, the feature works great all day. But it's very frustrating to have to do this on a daily basis.

Note: I turn my Mac off at night and turn in on in the morning at work.
Anyone else having this same problem, or know of a fix?

Apple Watch OS: 3.1(14S471) 1st Gen watch
iPhone OS: 10.2(14C92) iPhone 5s
Macbook Pro OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 15-inch late 2013

Best Answer

This appears to have been fixed in macOS 10.12.2.
From Apples release notes:
Improves setup and reliability of Auto Unlock.
Today was the first day I haven't had to restart my phone and watch!