I haven't updated to latest yet,but I can confirm I could never get used to the new seetings.it's just an inferior experience.100% steps backwards in terms of practicality and "user friendly-ness".I wonder who came up with this idea and how it was approved.it's awful.
Please try to convince all of us that you use system settings frequently? For me it's set it, forget it. I can go days without accessing system settings.
If you spend some time going through it and learning it is actually really good. I hated it at first but I spent about an hour going through each individual section and bam it all came together and now I like it a lot more than the old one.
the pull down menu doesn't really address the issue.it's just another way to access the same cramped structure..
actually using it less frequently (like majority) is more problematic because you have too keep looking and seraching for what you need in this cramped nest of rows and menus,whereas it used to be done very easily by just taking a look.Please try to convince all of us that you use system settings frequently? For me it's set it, forget it. I can go days without accessing system settings.
In Safari -> Develop menu ->empty cache, wait a few seconds check to if anything changed. Try booting in safe mode
Thanks but I previously tried that. I spent over an hour on the phone w/ support for 13.1 and tried lots of different things including reinstall & safe mode. Support suggested I totally wipe my SSD Data vol and do a recovery from scratch. That is not something I'm prepared to do for this bug. There must be a better solution.
I can just as easily used SIri or spotlight search to open specific system setting hierarchy. The reason they went to a vertical style is obvious that they intend to grow the amount of configuration options MacOS provides and also because it works better on smaller size screens then the older icon based grouping of setting categories each with its own hierarchy.
It's quite possible if you just install the next MacOS 13.3 beta coming next week it might fix this for you. But using the factory reset (DFU-restore) and migration assistant which automatically moves anything system wide that is not compatible into a separate folder is something I had to use very occasionally as a beta tester. I use Carbon Copy to make a snapshot on external Volume that acts as a ASR source. That is all you need to get right back to where you were after DFU-restore.
The variation of hardware along with software can sometimes cause a MacOS update to leave some code/files that causes an application not to work as it should. This can happen also because unknown to the user he had a write/save that corrupted something and it manifested when he updates the MacOS. Some problems are corrected by MacOS after it reboots and just repairs on its own and it starts to work. Example I had a G-Hub startup app that works at a low level for controlling a gaming mouse, I update to a beta and suddenly find its not able to draw the apps interface, its blank. I tried to remove and reinstall, no change, then a few boots later its working again. The vast majority of beta installs going back several years have been rarely problematic. Occasionally something is incompatible temporary until the developer or the next beta update fixes the issue.
I gave up on beta's a decade ago. Don't have time to fiddle with that stuff anymore. I waited for 13.2 to fix this and it didn't. I've already spent 2 full days beating my head against the keyboard in frustration. I'm chasing one little thing after another. Thanks for the DFU comment. It's starting to seem like I may need to go that way.
I am wondering why it matters how many times its needed? It's horrible. So much easier to use the old SP interface. I absolutely hate the vertical layout on my iOS devices. But each to their own.......Please try to convince all of us that you use system settings frequently? For me it's set it, forget it. I can go days without accessing system settings.
The Apple Store personnel with an appointment are pretty nice in helping you do that with an another laptop they normally usually use for that. Just make sure store personnel don't use a Thunderbolt 3/4 cable that looks like a USB-C cable it has to be USB-C to USB-C cable for DFU to work. The Timing is tricky for it to work, but it is an amazing means to an end when you need to totally expunge gremlins as it totally redoes the MacOS and system FW
I don't blame them. Didn't Nikon announce they stopped making cameras? No point in supporting dead end technology
Odd you still have issues, nothing is bugging me on my M1 Max MBP without an external display.
