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macOS Sonoma 14.4: Reasons Not to Update
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After updating to 14.4, my 2019 MacBook Pro took F-O-R-E-V-E-R to wake up and connect with the external monitor (about 20–30 seconds). Sometimes, accessing the external hard drive, especially the larger ones, takes longer and longer.
Already fed up...
Already fed up...
For my usage its running fine on my mac Mini M2 with the Apple Studio monitor, I've had one glitch when I rebooted and the keyboard and mouse were not recognised, switching them both on and off cured that and its been fine since. External SSD works fine and printer works fine, but obviously if any of the list of issues affect your workflow then don't update but also the list of security patches for this update was huge (see below post) so I do like to keep my mac protected.
Users should not be playing a game of hit or miss with each update though and never have to compromise security over major bugs. Apple really need to slow the update cycle on whatever version is coming next and go back to a two year update routine, like in the days of Snow Leopard (that was buggy as hell at release though) nobody is rushing for a new macOS variant every year with such minor changes let alone new versions where you get articles basically saying to compromise security like this one so Jave etc works. Maybe Apple should seperate feature updates and security patching? What happened to this release is weird, it appears 14.4 was actually less buggy before public release acording to many beta testers, so you cant even rely on testing anymore to make sure what you get is the same as what you tested it seems.
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Users should not be playing a game of hit or miss with each update though and never have to compromise security over major bugs. Apple really need to slow the update cycle on whatever version is coming next and go back to a two year update routine, like in the days of Snow Leopard (that was buggy as hell at release though) nobody is rushing for a new macOS variant every year with such minor changes let alone new versions where you get articles basically saying to compromise security like this one so Jave etc works. Maybe Apple should seperate feature updates and security patching? What happened to this release is weird, it appears 14.4 was actually less buggy before public release acording to many beta testers, so you cant even rely on testing anymore to make sure what you get is the same as what you tested it seems.
About the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.4 - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of macOS Sonoma 14.4.
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Thanks for the warning.
Another reason for me to stay away for now…
Luckily you are spot on with, "some poor intern" we can call them Siri.., rather than an incredibly competent AI. Although I suspect rather than training AI to crush QI/QC and help developers spot sub-optimal code before committing it they would likely train it to interpret social media sentiment.You could be sure that if Apple does have some poor intern trawling social media and forums for "sentiment" they probably wouldn't incorporate "There is a growing sentiment of unhappiness with Apple's OS upgrades and reliability with some calls being made for senior management including the CEO to be dismissed due to their alleged incompetent leadership and supervision."
<- if this emoji were better quality everything would be right in the universe.
I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned this, but there is a serious bug in 14.4 relating to zooming in fullscreen continuously with the pointer. If I zoom in with two fingers upwards on the trackpad plus a key on the keyboard, whenever I move the pointer, it snaps back out to show the full screen. Because I’m a low vision person, I had to go back to an earlier version of macOS as I couldn’t use it like this.
Caldigit TS3 Plus. It's been quite solid. It's currently $200 on Amazon -- pricey for a Thunderbolt 3 dock but I got it with a short-lived deal for $165 a few months back. That's still expensive for an older product but it works well. I'm driving a 4k monitor at 60 Hz and a 2K monitor at 165 Hz with my M1 Pro through it, which should cover me for at least a few more years.
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I'll never forget the disappointment I felt at the Big Sur announcement. I just wanted to hear Craig say they're working on stability, on refinement to the existing system that was great but just needed bug fixing.
"It's our biggest interface overhaul in years!"
So they threw away the well thought out proven design, and ignored most of the bugs, and added a bunch of new ones.
And they'll just keep doing it. Nobody wants to work on anything that's "done" and management doesn't incentivize anyone to do it.
the issue I take (by the way I'm not the person reinstalling printers, that's another commenter) is that you hop on a post about "reasons not to update" and you're here running defense, saying "how long did that take you" is for sure a peanut gallery comment when the whole purpose of this thread is listing the "reasons not to update". Why are you running defense?
“macOS Sonoma 14.4 More Problems Found - Why We Advise Not To Upgrade.”
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macOS Sonoma 14.4 More Problems Found - Why We Advise Not To Upgrade - Updated | Production Expert
Since Apple released macOS Sonoma v14.4 on March 7th 2024, not everyone who updated their macOS to this latest version has had a smooth transition. In this article we look at the issues that have caused some people problems.
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I was selling computers when Vista hit the fan.
The next year was a real fluster cluck for service.
Drove a lot of switchers to the Mac.
I wonder if the reverse will happen now that Window 11 seems like a working alternative?
The OS team is busy trying to program using the limited IOS developer tools for the desktop? Busy refining MacOS EMOJI as the new next-gen operating system and dumbing down everything else to the capacity of a whelk.
I don't know. but whatever they have for supervision and management/directoral strategy/planning sucks balls in my most humble opinion.
That is when the company is not trying to alienate as many people as possible, whether users or regulators [who are immune to lobbying largesse, as is the American Way!].
Hi - don't know if this is relevant or not, but I just upgraded to Somona 14.4 and only then spotted this discussion about not upgrading yet. Anyways, an older application which prompted me to open Rosetta in order to use it, opened OK and I started using it. A little while later the application crashed. Why am I telling you this? I went to the Crash Reports via console was happily scrolling through the report - then it just disappeared! This was about 1 week after the initial crash - is there a time limit on the amount of time that a crash report is held by the MacOS 14 before it is deleted. I went to find the actual .ips file - but it was nowhere on the HD.
I realise this probably isn't important, and might not be relevant but just thought I'd mention it as it seemed a but odd to me that the file just vanished while I was viewing it.
yet. Anyways, an older application which prompted me to open Rosetta in order to use it, opened OK and I started using it. A little while later the application crashed. Why am I telling you this? I went to the Crash Reports via console was happily scrolling through the report - then it just disappeared! This was about 1 week after the initial crash - is there a time limit on the amount of time that a crash report is held by the MacOS 14 before it is deleted. I went to find the actual .ips file - but it was nowhere on the HD.I realise this probably isn't important, and might not be relevant but just thought I'd mention it as it seemed a but odd to me that the file just vanished while I was viewing it.
Dear God no...There's already the suspicion that Cookie & Co are dumbing down stuff to "IOS-like" without the feature set to support it, [see PadOS/Wasted opportunities].
And to think once Apple strived to lead the pack, break barriers and "just work".
Oh such naive times.