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Apple Watch remote keyboard (iPhone): pasted text arrives empty on the watch, typed text works (watchOS 27.2)
When a text field on Apple Watch is filled through the iPhone's remote keyboard, text that I PASTE into the iPhone field is displayed correctly on the iPhone but arrives EMPTY on the watch. Typing the same text character by character works fine. This happens in both secure (password) fields and regular text fields, so it doesn't look like a password-field restriction. Steps to reproduce On the watch, open a text field (I tested a password field and a regular one). Open the keyboard on the iPhone when prompted. Copy a short test string (e.g. "test12345") from another app. Paste it into the iPhone field. The iPhone shows the text. Confirm on the watch. Expected: the watch receives the pasted text. Actual: the watch field receives empty input. What I tried Typing the string by hand: arrives correctly. Pasting in a secure field: arrives empty. Pasting in a regular field: arrives empty. Environment iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 27.0 [confirm current version] Apple Watch Ultra 2, watchOS 27.2 (24S5091f) MacBook Pro (M1), macOS 27.2 Has anyone else seen this? Any workaround other than typing the text manually would be appreciated.
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Apple Watch pairs successfully in Device Hub (watchOS 27) but never reconnects afterward
Xcode 27.0, watchOS 27.2, macOS 27.2. Re-pairing an Apple Watch Ultra 2 via Device Hub (File ▸ Pair Nearby Device…) completes successfully — remotepairingd logs setupManualPairing succeeded — but the watch never reconnects afterward: no verifyManualPairing, no _remotepairing._tcp Bonjour advertisement, and CoreDevice never creates a device record for it. devicectl shows the watch as unavailable, then it disappears from the list entirely. Compare: pairing an iPhone the same way also closes the setup channel within ~40 ms, but the iPhone reconnects ~1.3 s later via verifyManualPairing and becomes available. The watch never does. Interesting finding: if the Mac's pairing listener is kept open past the point where Device Hub's sheet would normally close it, the watch does come back — but it requests a brand-new pair-setup instead of verifying the one it just completed. It loops: setup → close → setup. Already tried without success: restarting the watch/iPhone, Developer Mode off/on, Bluetooth on/off, Wi-Fi toggles, iPhone on USB, restarting CoreDeviceService and remotepairingd, Reset Location & Privacy on the iPhone, updating watchOS (27.0 → 27.2, same behavior). Full write-up with sanitized logs, timeline and everything tried: https://github.com/kisnner26/watchos27-pairing-bug Filed as Feedback Assistant FB24924229. If anyone else hits this exact symptom (pairing succeeds, watch never reconnects — different from the PIN never appearing, or the watch never showing up at all, which are other variants reported elsewhere), please share your report ID here so Apple can link them.
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Apple Watch remote keyboard (iPhone): pasted text arrives empty on the watch, typed text works (watchOS 27.2)
When a text field on Apple Watch is filled through the iPhone's remote keyboard, text that I PASTE into the iPhone field is displayed correctly on the iPhone but arrives EMPTY on the watch. Typing the same text character by character works fine. This happens in both secure (password) fields and regular text fields, so it doesn't look like a password-field restriction. Steps to reproduce On the watch, open a text field (I tested a password field and a regular one). Open the keyboard on the iPhone when prompted. Copy a short test string (e.g. "test12345") from another app. Paste it into the iPhone field. The iPhone shows the text. Confirm on the watch. Expected: the watch receives the pasted text. Actual: the watch field receives empty input. What I tried Typing the string by hand: arrives correctly. Pasting in a secure field: arrives empty. Pasting in a regular field: arrives empty. Environment iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 27.0 [confirm current version] Apple Watch Ultra 2, watchOS 27.2 (24S5091f) MacBook Pro (M1), macOS 27.2 Has anyone else seen this? Any workaround other than typing the text manually would be appreciated.
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Apple Watch pairs successfully in Device Hub (watchOS 27) but never reconnects afterward
Xcode 27.0, watchOS 27.2, macOS 27.2. Re-pairing an Apple Watch Ultra 2 via Device Hub (File ▸ Pair Nearby Device…) completes successfully — remotepairingd logs setupManualPairing succeeded — but the watch never reconnects afterward: no verifyManualPairing, no _remotepairing._tcp Bonjour advertisement, and CoreDevice never creates a device record for it. devicectl shows the watch as unavailable, then it disappears from the list entirely. Compare: pairing an iPhone the same way also closes the setup channel within ~40 ms, but the iPhone reconnects ~1.3 s later via verifyManualPairing and becomes available. The watch never does. Interesting finding: if the Mac's pairing listener is kept open past the point where Device Hub's sheet would normally close it, the watch does come back — but it requests a brand-new pair-setup instead of verifying the one it just completed. It loops: setup → close → setup. Already tried without success: restarting the watch/iPhone, Developer Mode off/on, Bluetooth on/off, Wi-Fi toggles, iPhone on USB, restarting CoreDeviceService and remotepairingd, Reset Location & Privacy on the iPhone, updating watchOS (27.0 → 27.2, same behavior). Full write-up with sanitized logs, timeline and everything tried: https://github.com/kisnner26/watchos27-pairing-bug Filed as Feedback Assistant FB24924229. If anyone else hits this exact symptom (pairing succeeds, watch never reconnects — different from the PIN never appearing, or the watch never showing up at all, which are other variants reported elsewhere), please share your report ID here so Apple can link them.
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