Just upgraded from macOS Sonoma to macOS Sequoia

[lysingur]

My first impressions:

1. Speed
Apps open quicker, and animations feel snappier.

2. Screen brightness
This one caught me off guard: Sequoia seems to handle brightness way better.
Same environment, same settings — but the screen is brighter, clearer, and somehow easier on the eyes.

3. No issues (yet) with app compatibility or weird bugs. It feels like a polished release out of the gate.

Overall:
✅ Faster
✅ Better visuals
✅ No compatibility hiccups

 

[Sciuriware]

My first impressions:

1. Speed
Apps open quicker, and animations feel snappier.

2. Screen brightness
This one caught me off guard: Sequoia seems to handle brightness way better.
Same environment, same settings — but the screen is brighter, clearer, and somehow easier on the eyes.

4. No issues (yet) with app compatibility or weird bugs. It feels like a polished release out of the gate.

Overall:
✅ Faster
✅ Better visuals
✅ No compatibility hiccups

In this forum you ought to complain about something, not to praise!
;JOOP!

 

[navaira]

If you’re using Time Machine over network connection, you’re up for a few surprises…

…apart from that and Music bugs (which is a separate saga), Sequoia has matured enough. iCloud sync finally works fast (on Sonoma I’d sometimes need to restart the laptop and pray a lot, staring at ‘0,0 MB of 2,0 MB copied’) – the biggest difference I notice.

 

[splifingate]

If you’re using Time Machine over network connection, you’re up for a few surprises…

Such as?

 

[navaira]

Such as?

I am currently backing up 1 TB to a new drive. My laptop has been open, screen sleep disabled, and connected to electricity for two days and counting. Since it’s on seven days left, I live in constant terror of accidentally shutting the lid, which will invariably cause the backup to fail. Apparently this is a ‘feature not a bug’ since the Mx processors don’t have Power Nap. Oddly, sometimes the backups happen overnight with the laptop shut (and connected), only closing it during a backup interrupts it.

See this thread for more fun and games of various error types: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-error.2437741/

BUT OTHERWISE it’s safe to update by now, I’d say.

 

[splifingate]

I am currently backing up 1 TB to a new drive. My laptop has been open, screen sleep disabled, and connected to electricity for two days and counting. Since it’s on seven days left, I live in constant terror of accidentally shutting the lid, which will invariably cause the backup to fail. Apparently this is a ‘feature not a bug’ since the Mx processors don’t have Power Nap. Oddly, sometimes the backups happen overnight with the laptop shut (and connected), only closing it during a backup interrupts it.

See this thread for more fun and games of various error types: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/time-machine-error.2437741/

BUT OTHERWISE it’s safe to update by now, I’d say.

Oh, I don't currently use a Laptop with Sequoia . . . my 2015 MBP is still On-The-Coast, and hasn't been powered-on in months.

My Studio--however--is Latest (Wired), and it's been a long-while since I established a raw TM.

Takes minutes to update TM. No surprise there, really `