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?
For me, drilling into watch settings and turning off bluetooth seems to have worked. However, this is pretty awful design and I can't help but wonder if having bluetooth off on my watch caused a corrupted backup during a recent reset/restore because the watch stopped syncing with my phone.
So, if you do turn off bluetooth, be aware that it might cause a headache... like losing an activity streak of 351 days and having to start over.
Just created a feedback regarding this problem (ID: FB10026560)
Exactly Same issue. Driven me crazy .Where to completely disable watch developing? Help ~
My situation was the following:
Xcode 13.2 iPhone 15.4 watchOS 8.6
For me the solution was to update Xcode to 13.4 since it had the SDK for watchOS 8.6 (as per this article)
Same problem even now with XCode 13.4. Hung with message "iPhone is busy: Fetching debug symbols for Melvin’s Apple Watch paired to Mels iPhone" indefinitely. Very annoying bug. It is preventing me from testing an app on my iPhone.
Turning off completely Bluetooth (Settings -> Bluetooth -> Off) forced any reconnect attempts or limbo state to go away, and then I could proceed with building my project :-)
I'm still getting this regularly, too. It takes such a long time to sort itself out and occurs at the most inopportune moments, like when I'm in the middle of training a team of iOS developers how to code. Thankfully, it sometimes decides to work when I turn off Bluetooth.
This is really frustrating. I would love a better solution than turning off my Apple Watch every time I work on my app.
I got same problem with Latest Version of iOS and watchOS. When I quit Xcode, reopen Xcode and retry the build, it solved.
Same problem here. I tried turning on/off everything as suggested in this thread, even un-paired my Watch from iPhone. Nothing worked. Spent 5 hours trying to rectify.
And then I finally found a solution: I cleared the /Users/me/Library/Xcode/DerivedData directories for my app. (ie, any directory which begins with your app name.) That did it. Could have saved myself a 1/2 day of programming if I had tried that 1st.
YMMV
I have tried shutting down wifi/bluetooth or both, it's still not working for me :-(
The directory /Users/me/Library/Xcode/ doesn't even exist for me yet.
All my devices are upgraded to the latest version (except my mac only has latest Big Sur).
I have paid for Apple development program but I haven't been able to debug AR apps on my iPhone yet because of this (sometimes get the warning to reconnect it, still Xcode doesn't respond when I do... yet another bug??)
reset your phone network and it will fix
reset your phone network and it will fix
Hi Apple... why are we seeing this when 99% of us aren't building Apple Watch targets?
This issue is fixed in Xcode 14 Beta 4!