Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.5

[ShiftHappens]

Last sequoia update 15.3 whacked my data volume and had to do a format and reinstall and Time Machine restore. Make sure you have a good backup before installing.

Yeah, regular TM backups, but whether restore works is of course another question… Have plenty of other Macs at home, but none on Sonoma or later (except the bricked one) so I can’t attempt a recovery for a few days. Luckily, this isn’t my daily driver since a couple of months back. First upside of getting that WinDos 11 work machine I guess.

 

[Killa78]

Yay - have been spared in the past, but this upgrade bricked my MBP M1 Max:
View attachment 2510216

I'm curious. Did you sort this out? Do you have to reinstall or?

 

[ShiftHappens]

I'm curious. Did you sort this out? Do you have to reinstall or?

Need another Mac with Sonoma or later to attempt a revive (best case) or restore it, which I don’t have right now. Will update when I’ve had the chance…

 

[mpuk]

I've been having a heck of a time with external drives since Ventura. I haven't updated to 15.5 yet, but I isn't see any documentation regarding this.

I found a solution that has worked for me for this problem.

It is essentially resetting both SMC and NVRAM after updating to latest Sequoia.

Original post on Apple Support Community site entitled 'Sequoia 15.0 bugs - external hard drives' by user 'RobMcslay'

 

[Steve121178]

Unbelievable they still haven't fixed AirDrop disappearing from the Finder sidebar.

Can't believe it either! By this stage I guess it's never getting fixed. I just hope it's resolved in macOS 16.

 

[UltimaKilo]

At this point, I really believe Apple needs to move to an 18 month upgrade cycle on the OS. Just release a fully stable OS. There’s very little new features at this juncture, that you can add to an OS. 18 month upgrade cycles would lead to far superior experience for the users and allow for better designing of SoC and software.

 

[Fara82Light]

Did they finally fix this buggy OS in this update? Sequoia has been terrible in comparison to Sonoma

Which bugs specifically are you referring to?

 

[antonrg]

Did they fix the raw camera files preview in Finder that they broke with 15.4? That's the question.

 

[cybersheep]

Since the update, Safari no longer asks me for the destination directory for downloads. The setting has been reset and can no longer be changed. Had to reboot and start Safari a few times until it was back normal.

 

[ian-mac]

A fair few major updates, is macOS always like this? Just seems no sooner than I downloaded one update then there is another.
Maybe i should have stayed with Sonoma

I've skipped 15 thus far and probably will completely. Sonoma is solid as a rock for me on my M1 Max Studio and I don't have any AI annoyances. I also held back on an M4 Studio because I would be forced onto 15 if I upgraded.

 

[elementalwingma]

I have to say outside of the random wi-fi drops (happened from a few updates back) Mac OS has been running pretty well on my M1 Pro.

 

[H2SO4]

Or, don't rely on Apple to do your parenting for you?

Do you have any children?

 

[LeeW]

Do you have any children?

Their parenting would have ensured they read before commenting.

4 actually. And they all turned out well. Doctor, Scientist, Teacher and Accountant, and all under 30. My parenting skills and control of smartphones, laptops, tablets and everything else all before these tools existed.

 

[H2SO4]

Go back and read before you comment.

A simple yes or no will do, if you don't want to engage then fine.

I replied to comment number 3. Of the two preceeding comments one is from MR. Do I need to reed every simgle commenting a thread to question something?

 

[macamazing]

Sorry if I am hijacking this thread but I have a question for you experts. I was trying to fix an MS Outlook window sizing issue on a Macbook Pro. I went to the upper left where the red, yellow and green dots are clicked on the green and then there was a dropdown which said full screen and some other stuff. I accidentally chose something like "move everything to the left of the screen".

Now the main display is totally black and the only thing showing is the dock. No menu bar at the top. If I click on any app in the dock, it opens briefly and then quickly moves to the left off the screen. How can I get out of this mode? I am even unable to restart or shutdown the machine.

I would rather not hold down the power button to shut it down and I am not certain that if I did it would not come back the same way.

Any ideas guys. This is really annoying. I hope I accurately described what I did/chose, because it happened so quickly.

What a PITA due to my heavy handedness.



Thanks!

Well, apparently nothing a restart initiated via the keyboard couldn't solve. All normal now...

 

[scv]

Hope they fixed Safari not loading websites, been a headache, I almost switched to Chrome because of this.

 

[bitterdock]

Sequioa is so bad that I'm tempted to switch back to Sonoma if at all possible. Does this 15.5 fix the disappearing desktop finder shortcut bug

EDIT: update with the right OS version.

 

[Black Tiger]

Sounds like you don't have any kids... What is your suggestion? To sit in the room monitoring all usage while the teenager is using their device? That sounds like a non-starter... Or not letting them have a device in their possession at all? The phones are how kids communicate, both for classwork as well as socially. And what would you be teaching them to just take it away anyway? Kids need to learn how to use a phone responsibly. And let me tell you, it is no easy task getting all the parental controls set up properly in order to give kids some freedom, but curtail some of the abuses. The comment from @East_Bay_Mac was right on target.

My favourite Steve Jobs quote when asked about the iPad was when he shut the interviewer down and said he doesn’t allow his kids to use tech at all. That tells me everything I need to know about kids and these devices. We have a generation of zombies. Just because most parents have given into this insidious trend doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. And nothing good socially comes out of phone use by teens. Dumb phones can do the text thing easily. And god forbid kids interact face to face.

 

[H2SO4]

My favourite Steve Jobs quote when asked about the iPad was when he shut the interviewer down and said he doesn’t allow his kids to use tech at all. That tells me everything I need to know about kids and these devices. We have a generation of zombies. Just because most parents have given into this insidious trend doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. And nothing good socially comes out of phone use by teens. Dumb phones can do the text thing easily. And god forbid kids interact face to face.

Hmm, supposing my teen got to interact with someone of a completely different culture and learned from them using socail media on his/her phone, would that still fall under your heading of, "nothing good socially comes out of phone use by teens."?
Steve Jobs is a fine one to talk given that he didn't spend a lot of time talking to Lisa. In fact he probably spent more time talking to "The" Lisa, than he did to his real daughter Lisa.
She'd probably have benefitted from an iPhone to relax with.

 

[vanc]

Since MacOS 15.4 I have had major issues with airdrop, Universal Clipboard, and any continuity feature. I have submitted bug reports multiple times and they haven’t addressed them. Anyone else experiencing this?

It’s been a real buzzkill for productivity. I was used to being able to copy something from my iPhone or iPad and just paste on my Mac. Can’t even use my iPhone camera for conference calls. Wish they would fix these major bugs!

The Continuity features worked fine for me before the macOS 15.5 and iOS 18.5 updates. After updated last night, they stopped working.

But toggling the hand-off option from `Settings -> General -> AirDrop & Handoff` fixed it for me.