Worst MacOS update ever! My USB mouse with a dongle is not working. Can't use screensavers anymore and there is no easy way to downgrade. Regret I rushed to install. Will not happen again.
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macOS Monterey 12.1 Fixes Major Tap to Click, YouTube HDR, and Charging Bugs
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Don't remember having any OS problems with either of these devices...that computer isn't mine, but my dad had one just like it. The phone is mine and still works. I usually take it snowboarding as smart phone batteries hate the cold.
But, I now have an M1 Air and my new iPhone 12 mini is arriving today. Yes, we pay premium prices for these things, but I have just learned to deal with OS 'problems'. The track pad is annoying, but if it doesn't respond immediately, I just press a little harder, as these new pads are already very soft/light to click.
But, I now have an M1 Air and my new iPhone 12 mini is arriving today. Yes, we pay premium prices for these things, but I have just learned to deal with OS 'problems'. The track pad is annoying, but if it doesn't respond immediately, I just press a little harder, as these new pads are already very soft/light to click.
You can enable tap to click in settings. Now even the slightest tap will register as click.
Thanks, I knew that. But the previous Monterey update introduced a bug that caused intermittent problems with the tap to click feature, the main topic of this thread.
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There were/are at least two memory leaks.
- The one affecting Control Center seems to happen in the combination of HDR and auto-brightness. Memory use grows as the brightness gets automatically re-adjusted. Since your machine doesn't have HDR, that one wouldn't affect you.
- The one affecting various GUI apps seems to happen if you have a custom pointer size and/or color. Memory use grows as the mouse moves around.
- It's not clear to me if WindowServer really has a leak, or if there are additional ones.
Oh I definitely have problem 1. I keep Firefox to hand for whenever Safari decides to have one of it's lengthy pauses. I tried the Technology Preview to see if it helped, but it didn't.
I get it on My MacBook Pro 14 (Max, 64GB), but it doesn't show on my M1 Mini.
As ever, same advice. You never know.
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What about fixing wake from sleep for once and all.
I have had these issues ever since upgrading to Monterey, or was it big Sur, I have to note though, I am running it on an unsupported 2012 Mac Mini.
Since Monterrey I have not been able to complete a Time Machine backup. I have 2020 and 2021 MacBook Pros.
I've found that moving Time Machine to APFS in 11.0 Big Sur made it faster and more reliable for me.
Curious what this line in the release notes means
Can anyone see change in behaviour on 2021 MacBook Pros if the menubar extras go past the notch?
Can anyone see change in behaviour on 2021 MacBook Pros if the menubar extras go past the notch?
I use both formats. TM on Big Sur and then Monterey continues to back up to an existing HFS+ drive, but I started another backup on a new regular HDD and it uses APFS. Can't say I notice a difference in speed of backups, because they vary in size.
It probably means they fixed the bug where status items become partially visible if they overlap with the notch. They probably changed it to hide them altogether in that case.
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Looks like the major issues will be ironed out with this release.
I assumed that @Peteman100 asked about a build of Safari with a fix for the YouTube HDR bug. 120hz scrolling is not mentioned in the article.
Monterey was supposed to be a "bug fix" release, as it didn't introduce anything new.
Thank you for confirming. Can't believe it's taken them this long to fix it. This should've been patched much sooner.
My casual observation is that it the most major complaints about any MacOS are usually fixed by the .2/.3 release. which takes 6 months. I waited till Big Sur 11.3 came out before I updated my main computer.
Does anybody else take a conservative approach in updating their OS? I have a Windows computer and same thing there, not in a rush to update to Win11.
I work in software companies for user facing products, and usually the first release is terrible for all the companies I worked for. It takes a long time to solve edge cases and long term stability issues that are hard to reproduce.
Does anybody else take a conservative approach in updating their OS? I have a Windows computer and same thing there, not in a rush to update to Win11.
I work in software companies for user facing products, and usually the first release is terrible for all the companies I worked for. It takes a long time to solve edge cases and long term stability issues that are hard to reproduce.
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macOS 12.1 adds 120Hz for Chrome and other 3rd parties (vscode). Safari will likely enable that too, there have been several notes regarding this I recent commit logs.
Universal control and Shareplay, Ability convert images to text are supposed to be bug fixes?
Same here. No memory issues. And this is what makes fixing bugs so difficult. People think it’s extremely widespread but the ones experiencing the issue are those who post about it. Which can inflate the issue on forums but it’s not a major issue.
Agreed. And I really wish people would stop blaming work from home as the cause. Remember Snow Leopard at launch? How about even Catalina? High Sierra? I had issues MAJOR issues with these that made me unable to do my job. Catalina was most recent and I was experiencing 3-5 kernel panics a day. And Apple confirmed it was an OS issue because now that same iMac is working fine with the latest Catalina.