macOS Ventura 13.2 - Bug Fixes, Changes, and more

[gilby101]

I have this very issue. Upgraded to Ventura 13.2 yesterday. Now NO USB Drive (HDD or optical drive) is recognized any more. Initial Apple Support was of little help. Re-install did nothing. Booting in Safe Mode leads to the drives being recognized, but does not solve the issue, the following regular reboot leads to no USB drive being reconized. Thunderbolt connection to my DAS Raid works fine though ...

As others have discovered, the no USB drives issue is related to having certain kexts loaded. In my case:

• An older version of SATSMARTDriver kext. I had never updated from version 0.8.3. I have now updated to latest version from DriveDX 0.10.3 and my USB drives connect.

The one annoying thing is that now my Samsung T5 does not get SMART enabled, so DriveDX does not report any SMART statistics. It worked with macOS 13.1 and SATSMARTDriver 0.8.3. Oh well, I will put up with that - monitoring my hard disks is more important and that is working.

 

[Larry_Lion]

That worked! I can see my drives now in normal mode ... however a bunch of utilities that I had installed that wanted access to system calls are now disabled. Thanks for the info!

One of the apps that stopped working on my system due to the "full security" setting as Airfoil, a utility I use to direct sound from my iMac. It relies on a system extension, which is now working again thanks to excellent support from the developer, who send me the following "patch" (their code is removed for privacy reasons). Using Terminal in recovery mode: Once I implemented the fix as described, their audio system performed as before. Their VENDOR ALPHANUMERIC CODE was a 10-digit one.

spctl kext-consent add (CODE, no parentheses)


You'll need to boot into Recovery to run the command, but to take a step back and explain each portion of the command:

• the spctl command controls the security policies of your Mac,
• the kext-consent subsystem manages the ability for developers to add and manage kernel extensions on your Mac. While our component is not a kernel extension, as a system audio extension the install mechanism is the same, and
• our developer team, has a unique identifier with Apple, which allows and restricts the use of our software.

I have asked other vendors for their Apple identifiers, hopefully those apps will be working again soon.

 

[asebg]

One of the apps that stopped working on my system due to the "full security" setting as Airfoil, a utility I use to direct sound from my iMac. It relies on a system extension, which is now working again thanks to excellent support from the developer, who send me the following "patch" (their code is removed for privacy reasons). Using Terminal in recovery mode: Once I implemented the fix as described, their audio system performed as before. Their VENDOR ALPHANUMERIC CODE was a 10-digit one.

spctl kext-consent add (CODE, no parentheses)


You'll need to boot into Recovery to run the command, but to take a step back and explain each portion of the command:

• the spctl command controls the security policies of your Mac,
• the kext-consent subsystem manages the ability for developers to add and manage kernel extensions on your Mac. While our component is not a kernel extension, as a system audio extension the install mechanism is the same, and
• our developer team, has a unique identifier with Apple, which allows and restricts the use of our software.

I have asked other vendors for their Apple identifiers, hopefully those apps will be working again soon.

Ah yes, kexts. I spent many an hour identifying this issue and manually enabling kexts when I could not get my Xbox controller to talk to Steam a few OS iterations back. Kexts were also an area that the Apple Tech team flagged as a possible issue with my optical drive media not showing up in Ventura 13.2, but removing the kext files from /Library/StagedExtensions/ and uninstalling the potential offending software did not improve the situation.

 

[WilliApple]

Anyone with an M1 Air can you chime in on battery life and to a degree performance?

still on 13.0 on mine

Battery seems to be about the same as 13.2.

 

[fabio7371]

What? I don't see any posts reflecting this. Whoever wrote this, could you please point to a discussion of this bug or explain? Thanks.

Same issue on a iMac 2015. Can’t see external drives after update. However, I can see them in safe mode. Help!

 

[juballharshaw]

Is anyone else having their bluetooth devices randomly disconnect since 13.2 was released?

I had to reset my MX Keys a few days ago after a year+ of zero issues and today my Mighty Mouse wouldn't connect without multiple tries. I didn't have any issues during the public betas weirdly.

 

[moore624]

The solution from @matpete worked to fix the problem with my two WD drives not showing up, but it also completely corrupted the data on other two drives that were showing up. Only dif was the drives that were previously showing up before @matpete solution are SSDs. The others are HDDs. After 2 hours with Apple Senior Support, they ran out of ideas and said I'd have to reformat the SSDs are reload the data. Thank god I had a backup on BackBlaze. I'd be very careful with @matpete solution. This was just my experience with it.

 

[pshufd]

I came in here to get the okay to upgrade. After reading all this I'm staying on 13.1.

 

[dakamseh]

I got a mac mini in late 2012, 2.5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core5 running Ventura 13.1 everything running perfectly except the trackpad keeps freezing sometimes so I update to 13.2, and still the same, got 16 rams, and hhd space of 456gb any help, please

 

[Larry_Lion]

I got a mac mini in late 2012, 2.5 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core5 running Ventura 13.1 everything running perfectly except the trackpad keeps freezing sometimes so I update to 13.2, and still the same, got 16 rams, and hhd space of 456gb any help, please

I have a 2014 Mac mini Dual-core Intel i5, but Apple will not allow me to update to Ventura. I am stuck on Monterey 12.6.3 ... How did you manage to update to 13.1?

 

[dakamseh]

I have a 2014 Mac mini Dual-core Intel i5, but Apple will not allow me to update to Ventura. I am stuck on Monterey 12.6.3 ... How did you manage to update to 13.1?

you need to use an open-core patcher

 

[SoYoung]

you need to use an open-core patcher

Your problem is probably related to that, and not Ventura itself when used to a supported machine.

 

[nskburgh]

Long time but unsophisticated Mac user. I have a brand new MacBook Air M2 that came with Ventura 13.0. I just want to know if I'm fine to upgrade to 13.2 and then to load word and adobe, etc. I don't use a lot of apps. I have two older Macs but did NOT migrate anything from them. My files are shared in iCloud and I plan to access/transfer them that way for now. Trying to do a halfway clean install/start from scratch with this new MacBook Air. Thank you!

 

[Larry_Lion]

you need to use an open-core patcher

Ah. I’ll stick with Monterey in that case. The Mac Mini is only used as a dedicated (headless) music server (Roon), it theoretically only needs updating if the music server app demands an update which is unlikely.

 

[Johnny Jackhammer]

More evidence that up until the last release of any major macOS version... it's beta software. Once the next major version of macOS beta software comes out we'll consider "upgrading" to Ventura.

 

[jon.f]

Pioneer BDR-X13 works in 13.2 when directly connected to 2020 mini but not through usb-c hub

 

[flowrider]

^^^A powered or non-powered hub?

Lou

 

[jon.f]

^^^A powered or non-powered hub?

Lou

non-powered. thanks for asking. I thought it did work with same hub 13.1
The drive has its own power supply

 

[flowrider]

See this:

Some Pioneer Blu-ray drives don't work in macOS Ventura 13.2 | AppleInsider

Users are encountering an error when trying to use select Pioneer Blu-ray and optical drives, seemingly starting with macOS Ventura 13.2.

appleinsider.com

Lou

 

[MerryLegs]

Upgraded to 13.2. Now, my MacBook Pro w/4 Thunderbolt ports will not recognize any SD card.

I'm regretting this upgrade from 13.1. I usually upgrade, because I'm thinking/trusting that this upgrade is all about fixing a security issue.

If I was taking pictures for a living and now - I could not upload the wedding pictures from my camera into LightRoom, I would be totally f...ked.

Waiting for the next Ventura upgrade to fix this problem. Hopefully, sooner than later.

 

[deeveedee]

More evidence that up until the last release of any major macOS version... it's beta software. Once the next major version of macOS beta software comes out we'll consider "upgrading" to Ventura.

I always test the newest major macOS version (e.g., Ventura) when it's out, but for my "production" Volume, I remain on the "old" macOS (e.g., Monterey) until Apple releases a new version of Xcode that is not supported on the old version. By then, the latest macOS is mature and stable enough to motivate me to upgrade. I won't be upgrading my production Volume to Ventura until I need it to upgrade Xcode.

 

[pshufd]

I updated to 13.2 on my test Mac (M1 mini) and took my external drives from my Studio and hooked them up and tested each one (I have three at the moment), and they all worked fine under 13.2. So it looks like I'm good to upgrade the Studio to 13.2. And then the MacBook Pro. I do not usually hook the MacBook Pro or the mini up to external drives. I just use the Studio as a NAS and copy files over the LAN.

 

[asebg]

I got a follow up call from Apple Tech support. I was told that basically it's Pioneer's problem to solve, who is already aware of the issue and working towards a solution. The blu-ray drive is non-essential to my day to day, so I think I will just wait it out. Certainly a frustrating response on the Apple side. Hopefully they sneak a fix into 13.2.1 / 13.3, or Pioneer figures it out soon.

A UHD drive upgrade is looking more appealing every day.

 

[SoYoung]

I got a follow up call from Apple Tech support. I was told that basically it's Pioneer's problem to solve, who is already aware of the issue and working towards a solution. The blu-ray drive is non-essential to my day to day, so I think I will just wait it out. Certainly a frustrating response on the Apple side. Hopefully they sneak a fix into 13.2.1 / 13.3, or Pioneer figures it out soon.

A UHD drive upgrade is looking more appealing every day.

Apple support is often not in touch with what Apple really doing. I have a big issue with iPadOS 16 where accessibility zoom wasn't working properly and my device lagged when it was activated. No one at Apple support could help and just said that maybe an app I installed caused this etc. And then they release 16.2 and they specifically said in the release note that they fixed the zoom accessibility issue, so the engineers knew this issue, but not the regular tech support guys.

Apple clearly changed something in 13.2. I'm sure we still don't have any new beta since this release because Apple is busy to fix the mess they released 3 weeks ago.

And for a new drive, I wouldn't consider one if I were you, at least no pioneer one. Personally I spent enough money on optical drives. The sad thing about this is I upgraded from my old ASUS one to a pioneer one because I wanted a better quality drive with a slot mechanism, and in the end my 2 years old $200+ CAD pioneer drive don't work anymore, but my old and cheap ASUS one still works.

 

[asebg]

Apple support is often not in touch with what Apple really doing. I have a big issue with iPadOS 16 where accessibility zoom wasn't working properly and my device lagged when it was activated. No one at Apple support could help and just said that maybe an app I installed caused this etc. And then they release 16.2 and they specifically said in the release note that they fixed the zoom accessibility issue, so the engineers knew this issue, but not the regular tech support guys.

Apple clearly changed something in 13.2. I'm sure we still don't have any new beta since this release because Apple is busy to fix the mess they released 3 weeks ago.

And for a new drive, I wouldn't consider one if I were you, at least no pioneer one. Personally I spent enough money on optical drives. The sad thing about this is I upgraded from my old ASUS one to a pioneer one because I wanted a better quality drive with a slot mechanism, and in the end my 2 years old $200+ CAD pioneer drive don't work anymore, but my old and cheap ASUS one still works.

Ah yeah - I just have a regular blu-ray drive right now. I've been considering an upgrade to a UHD drive, but I will probably hold off. I only own a couple 4K Blu-Rays so it would have pretty limited use. As for Apple, that's about what I expect will happen - 13.3 or 13.2.1 will get released in a matter of weeks and it will fix this issue, especially since Pioneer is aware of the issue and I'm sure trying to get it resolved. I imagine they are in contact with each other.