Apple Remote Desktop crashes on MacOS 26.0.1

[edjusted]

Is anyone else having this problem? It's weird...it'll "crash"/hang on launch...no windows appear, and nothing happens even after waiting for minutes. Immediately on launch, clicking on it in the dock just gives you an Application Not Responding/Force Quit option.

And it'll keep doing that on subsequent relaunches.

*However*, if you keep *rebooting*, when/if it *does* work, it'll *continue* to work throughout that "boot."

I'm on a MacBook Pro M4.

 

[edjusted]

Oh, nevermind. An update for ARD just came out, complete with a really bad looking icon.

 

[edjusted]

FWIW, the problem still exists even with ARD 3.1. I've also install MacOS 26.1 Public Beta 1, and now PB 4 and the problem still persists.

 

[ciacci]

not my, but resolve the issue...

1. Logged in with an admin account.
2. Opened Terminal.
3. Ran the following command to stop the Apple Remote Desktop client:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -stop

4. Ran the following command to remove the /Library/Application Support/Apple/Remote Desktop/Client directory:

sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/Remote\ Desktop/Client

5. Ran the following command to restart the Apple Remote Desktop client:

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -restart