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 `

 

[navaira]

Oh, wired TM backups are almost a pleasure, especially since I got an SSD Only the network ones are painful. (The seven days ended up being more like seven hours, because Time Machine is amazing at estimating remaining time, too.)

Well, sorry for hijacking your thread, @lysingur – how are YOU doing with Sequoia?