Yes. About dozen or two unique posters in this thread, about half those mentioning a problem, and only about 2 of those with merit, amongst millions of installs without issue.
Feel totally bad too...
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Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With New Widget Features, Safari Updates, Screen Sharing Improvements and More
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Yes. About dozen or two unique posters in this thread, about half those mentioning a problem, and only about 2 of those with merit, amongst millions of installs without issue.
Feel totally bad too...
Update: I moved the Motu Ultralite MK5 to a port on the MacBook Pro and I'm still getting kernel panics on wake from sleep. So it's gotta be a problem related to the LG ultrafine monitor or with the Anker USBC hub attached to it. Doesn't happen when just the motu is connected so can rule that out. Reverting. I don't think I've had to revert an OS in at least a decade and I pretty much always go with the .0 version. Kernel panics never happened on this machine until today; until Sonoma. Not once.
Upgraded my M1 Air about 2 hours ago. Backed up with TM and Super Duper. Smooth sailing. Took about 20 minutes total. It works.
You may not have a choice. When I had problems with High Sierra not working well on my MBA, I had no choice but to roll back to Sierra (which was/is still rock solid on that MBA), and restore my data from TM. I say this because this will get you back to the last good known state of your Mac prior to upgrading. I'm solid for the time being on my Mac running Monterey, but as I'm dealing with a buggy W11, I'm tempted to swap out the drive I have W11 on, put back in the W10 drive I have, and go about my day. The key here is stability, and apparently, Sonoma isn't there just yet. Hearing these reports, I'm glad I didn't update yet.
BL.
I'm very happy with Sonoma having tested the betas with my production software on my test machines. My wife is very happy with Sonoma and the desktop widgets.
I've not had any problems on my production systems today so smooth sailing so far. This is the best .0 macOS version for me since Mojave.
I've not had any problems on my production systems today so smooth sailing so far. This is the best .0 macOS version for me since Mojave.
I am surprised there are no smart widget stack options in Sonoma.
Overall, I have been pretty happy with this year’s software updates. They appear to be geared towards performance improvements and my iPhone, iPad and MacBook feel smooth again. I am digging the new UI on the Apple Watch and the Apple TV as well.
Shame that my 2017 5k iMac is losing support, and it still works well enough that I don’t really feel compelled to upgrade (I mostly just want that huge gorgeous display).
Not a bad year for someone who hasn’t bought a single Apple device this whole year.
Shame that my 2017 5k iMac is losing support, and it still works well enough that I don’t really feel compelled to upgrade (I mostly just want that huge gorgeous display).
Not a bad year for someone who hasn’t bought a single Apple device this whole year.
Any kernel panic is an OS bug, unless it was caused by the legacy system extension installed by the device. Please submit the report to Apple.
You know what I don't like about the reaction feature? No one actually will answer the question. I asked a question and got a bit of a smart-aleck response:
I ended up searching and found that if you click on Reduce transparency in the accessibility settings, that will darken the menu somewhat. It's not a perfect solution but it's something at least.
I do appreciate the likes/reactions though, I just wish someone had answered without making me feel dumb for not knowing Mac Basics.
I ended up searching and found that if you click on Reduce transparency in the accessibility settings, that will darken the menu somewhat. It's not a perfect solution but it's something at least.
I do appreciate the likes/reactions though, I just wish someone had answered without making me feel dumb for not knowing Mac Basics.
From going back through the past few pages, it reads to me like those with peripherals are the ones having the most problems with the release, or at least with connecting peripherals to their Macs. iDevices not being able to connect, monitors not being able to connect through something 3rd party, etc.
At this point, like I said above, I'm more inclined to not update yet. I do connect a monitor to my Mac via the HDMI port, so I'm okay there.. but I do connect a USB-C docking station to my Mac, connect 2 USB-A devices to that, my cord for my watch and Airpods, and ethernet.
I know that Apple is basically doing their tests against standalone Macs and not against any other non-Apple devices that would connect to it, and that it isn't their responsibility for 3rd party hardware to stay up to date, but ugh..
Perhaps again it's time to wait for .1 or .0.x..
BL.
At this point, like I said above, I'm more inclined to not update yet. I do connect a monitor to my Mac via the HDMI port, so I'm okay there.. but I do connect a USB-C docking station to my Mac, connect 2 USB-A devices to that, my cord for my watch and Airpods, and ethernet.
I know that Apple is basically doing their tests against standalone Macs and not against any other non-Apple devices that would connect to it, and that it isn't their responsibility for 3rd party hardware to stay up to date, but ugh..
Perhaps again it's time to wait for .1 or .0.x..
BL.
I do appreciate the likes/reactions though, I just wish someone had answered without making me feel dumb for not knowing Mac Basics.
Wasn't about making you feel dumb. It was about giving you the correct term to search for, which you did.
Overall, I have been pretty happy with this year’s software updates. They appear to be geared towards performance improvements and my iPhone, iPad and MacBook feel smooth again. I am digging the new UI on the Apple Watch and the Apple TV as well.
Shame that my 2017 5k iMac is losing support, and it still works well enough that I don’t really feel compelled to upgrade (I mostly just want that huge gorgeous display).
Not a bad year for someone who hasn’t bought a single Apple device this whole year.
I'm in the same position.
I am considering running OCLP Sonoma on my 2015 Macs. I'm running Monterey on them right now but Sonoma seems quite smooth and pretty fast on Intel Macs.
macOS Sonoma has the worst out of the gate memory management since OSX 10.7 Lion. If you have a Mac with only 8gb DO NOT upgrade until/unless they fix this. My base M2 MBA runs in the yellow on memory pressure at idle with no open apps and I installed it fresh from scratch. It's been installed for 24 hours to the initial "initialization" stuff is long done. Do with this what you will.
Wait, can you please explain how ? I also have this issue with the Menu Bar being white despite my Mac being on Dark Mode and I just don’t like how it looks 🥲I ended up searching and found that if you click on Reduce transparency in the accessibility settings, that will darken the menu somewhat. It's not a perfect solution but it's something at least.
I do appreciate the likes/reactions though, I just wish someone had answered without making me feel dumb for not knowing Mac Basics.
For some reason, it seems to be only a problem with the default Sonoma Wallpaper (both the light and dark options). It becomes black again when I choose a custom wallpaper.
That's weird.. I have a base M2 13" MBP (8GB RAM) and I don't seem to have any memory pressure issues, even when there are multiple windows open. I just upgraded to Sonoma a few hours ago, and it has been running very smoothly for me so far.
In settings go to Accessibility, and then Display. Then you will see a button for Reduce Transparency and it's probably turned off. Turn it on and the Menu Bar turns darker.
OK limping along but got it done. Using an older USB 3.0 Type A powered hub the phone and iPad "seen" in finder and backing up to Mac. Dunno if the "cure" was shutting off/on DVDs etc. in Finder sidebar, running disk repair on boot drive, shut down, start up - but pad just finished backing up. Hey AppleCare, you can just go back to sleep.
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So in the TV app there's now a circle with an arrow pointing down next to the episode length. It doesn't do anything when clicked and doesn't show any text when moused over. Does anyone know what this means/what it's supposed to do?
Looks like Download command. When the episode is downloaded locally, the arrow changes.
Thanks. It seems that it actually means "stored locally", as these are things I've added myself: they were never downloaded. An arrow pointing down is not, in my opinion, intuitive for "stored locally".