Since I upgraded to iOS 15, watchOS 8 and Xcode 13, after I turned off and on my Mac, every first time I want to launch an app from Xcode to my iPhone appear this message (even if I'm not developing for watchOS):
iPhone is busy: Making Apple Watch ready for development
The Mac stays stuck on it for at least 20 minutes.
The only solution I found (until now) is to switch off WiFi on my Watch.
Is there a better solution?
Quite frustrating, any chance we can get this fixed for the new year? Driving us all bananas.
This needs to be fixed - Its taking me hours to test code changes
Same thing happening for me. I've never tried to develop for Apple Watch, not sure why it insists on preparing it for development.
What worked for me is disabling Bluetooth
Same here... xCode: Version 13.2.1 (13C100) | MacOS: 12.1 (21C52) | iPhone X: 15.2 | iWatch: 8.3 (19S55) "Fetching debug symbols for the watch p.... Installing Simbols for watchOS 8.3 (19S... Fetching debug symbols for myWatch pai..."
Apple, why do you hate us so much?
Had the same problem. I've updated my Apple Watch, waited for 10min and it worked.
Yes, I believe there is a much better solution, based on my personal experience.
I found that following the steps listed in the solution titled "Solution 2" along with the steps listed in the solution titled "Solution 3" of this post on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47448911/13910236, in conjunction with the single step given in the first comment to that post on StackOverflow which I'll link to here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46316373/fixing-xcode-9-issue-iphone-is-busy-preparing-debugger-support-for-iphone#comment83623898_47448911 , fixed the problem for me. But I find I have to follow the same set of steps to solve the problem again after it re-occurs - however, I believe it only ever re-occurs after I quit Xcode and turn my computer off and on again (and possibly unplug my iPhone from my Mac computer) and then open Xcode and attempt to Build & Run my application on my iPhone.
Please let me know how you go with those steps.
Turning off Bluetooth on my iPhone worked for me. This causes the watch to completely disconnect from the iPhone and Xcode no longer tries to prepare it for development.
Same problem here. I finally just turned the Watch off and stopped using it, since getting work done is more important to me than wearing a Watch. I never cease to be amazed at the ways Apple can waste my time with BS like this.
Same problem
Can't get it to work with Watch on airplane mode and closed bluetooth :(
Unfortunately, same issue. I can't even wear my Apple Watch anymore. Had to turn it off and put it away to get any work done.
The best solution (at least, it worked for me) is: find your watch and tap "Trust" on the prompt that is present. This "Preparing" error seems to be tied to a prompt on the Watch, so it will be spinning until you tap Trust.
Complete radio silence from Apple as usual? How is this still an issue after 5 months, it's now virtually impossible for our team to develop anything on an actual device since we actually need to use bluetooth AND the watch.
Putting the watch on Airplane mode and turning off Bluetooth on the phone worked for me. Just turning the bluetooth off wasn't enough because the watch could still connect to the phone via WiFi (and may be cellular) - I checked it by buzzing the phone.
Same thing for my iPhone 7. Tried out everything that i found out on the internet. I also tried on a different machine.