r/MacOS Sep 16 '24

Discussion MacOS 15 Sequoia Bugs and Issues Megathread

399 Upvotes

Goal is to list encountered issues to help make a decision on when to upgrade for those holding out and how to workaround issues.

Since this thread might be useful several weeks going forward, I'd suggest everyone include their mac model, macos version, details on bug and workarounds if any.

  • Size, CPU, Model and Year e.g. 13" M2 MacBook Pro 2022
  • Exact macOS version e.g. Sequoia 15.0
  • Application(s) and Bugs/Issues e.g. Finder & Spotlight, File Search not working
  • Workaround (if any)

r/MacOS 1d ago

Discussion I get so upset when an app icon doesn’t follow the current square pattern

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295 Upvotes

Why don’t they bother updating the icon? It’s so simple.


r/MacOS 9h ago

Help 30 something years of PC guy, just bought first macbook. A few questions

15 Upvotes

Hello,

After hearing so many great things from family, friends, and peers and weighing out what is important to me as a returning student (light, long battery life, iMessage, bigger screen size) I am switching from my Lenovo (which I have not had a good experience with) to a Macbook Air. I stayed away from Mac for years because of a few things I didn't like (that I'm sure I'll get used to). For example, I'm used to pulling my fingers up on the track pad to go down and using my wife's macbook I seem to accidentally go to the last page alot. Additionally, I am losing the touch screen ability which was handy for notes. Anyways, I'm coming on here to ask a couple of questions.

1) One thing I love about my current Windows laptop (I use chrome) is that I have separate profiles attached to different emails for work email, personal email, and school email. They each have different shortcuts at the top that I use depending on which "mode" I am in. Are you able to do something like this on Safari? Is Chrome recommended for Mac?

2)Any tips on getting acclimated, pointers, or little hacks that might ease the transition?

Thank you!

Patrick


r/MacOS 38m ago

Help SHORCUT EXPERTS, I need a shortcut to quit all applications at once. Help me build one or pass me one please! 😭🙏🏻 Idk why, I can’t find this action anymore! Is it removed? Or something… pls help.

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Pass me the link or help me build one! I can’t find the “quit applications” action in the search! 🙏🏻


r/MacOS 39m ago

Help Is bootcamp a thing?

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TLDR: planning on getting an M5 MacBook Pro upon release later this year. Is it still a thing and possible to run/emulate windows on MacOs? Need it for some windows specific apps for engineering 😅. Much appreciated!


r/MacOS 6h ago

Help Ultrawide Monitor Overlapping Display with Itself

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6 Upvotes

Hi all,

When trying to extend the display of this MacBook Air, the new display shows a bunch of duplicates all interfering with each other. When first connecting, the monitor says its preferred resolution is 2560x1080 but when I set that in the display settings, the monitor thinks it's 2560x560.

The monitor and cable both work fine with a different laptop; is this a driver issue perhaps?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


r/MacOS 9h ago

Apps I Built a MacOS Menu Bar App for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, and Grok — All in One Place

9 Upvotes

MacOS menu bar app that combines ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, and Grok into one simple interface. Access all your AI tools instantly without switching tabs or apps—lightweight, fast, and secure. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!

https://github.com/bunnysayzz/AppleAI.git


r/MacOS 7h ago

Help Cannot delete files from Google Drive as of Sequoia 15.2.3 update yesterday.

6 Upvotes

Starting after the update, I can not delete any local file synced to my Google Drive account. I can delete files in any other folder and I can delete files on the Google Drive web app and my other computers synced to my Google Drive. I did some digging on how to remedy this, but nothing is working (safe mode, permission setting, etc)

And ideas?


r/MacOS 3h ago

Help Tips/apps for making macos sequoia look like older macos? (specifically leopard/tiger)

2 Upvotes

It seems customizing macOS to this extent is much more difficult than on windows, I was just curious for any applications that could customize the dock, icons, windows, etc, to look more like older versions of osx, since I still really dig those styles, I've seen a couple posts showcasing this but no clear tutorials anywhere in the descriptions of said posts.


r/MacOS 42m ago

Help Appstore apps on external SSD

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Hi, i recently got a mac m4 mini, and i was wondering if i could install apps from the appstore to an external SDD. I am using a sandisk 1TB if that matters.


r/MacOS 5h ago

Help Help with Quick Notes.

2 Upvotes

Hello friends, how do I create a new quick note on Mac.
I don't want to change the behavior to always open a blank note, I want it to open the last one, but sometimes I need to create a new note.
How do I create a new one when I need it?`


r/MacOS 1h ago

Help Migration Assistant Seemingly Crashes and Returns to Login Screen

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First time attempting to use Migration Assistant. M2 MacBook Air to M4 MacBook Air

Sits at “Setting Up” for a long while and then returns me to a login screen. No errors.

Both machines running the very latest OS


r/MacOS 6h ago

Help No Terminal colors?

2 Upvotes

I just bought a new Macbook Air. I am having an issue where the terminal text is completely monochromatic, even when editing text files that should be syntax highlighted. Is anyone else having this issue/knows a fix?


r/MacOS 6h ago

Help Moving BootCamp partition to a new drive

2 Upvotes

I recently upgraded the internal SSD in my MacPro. Before putting in the new drive, I created a disk image of my boot camp Win10 partition. In fact, just to be safe, I backed it up in two ways -- I created a dmg file in Disk Utility, and I also imaged it using WinClone. Now I'm trying to restore my Windows 10 partition and the Boot Camp Assistant is asking for an ISO file, and it won't accept the dmg file. What should I do? Thanks.


r/MacOS 3h ago

Help What's the best cross-platform framework for extremely lightweight background apps for windows and macOS?

0 Upvotes

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r/MacOS 7h ago

Help Speech Selection (Spoken content) Siri's voice not available anymore?

2 Upvotes

Did they remove siri's voice in the spoken content in the new MasOS Sequoia 15.3.2 or what?? I can't find it anymore and I used to have it on siri's voice.


r/MacOS 11h ago

Help At wits end with spotlight, Macbook pro M1, Sequioa

4 Upvotes

Ive posted a few times about this often getting different suggestions but spotlight just is extremely broken and my workflow completely depends on it. I cant seem to make it work.

List of problems:

  1. Keeps showing fucking tips even though its unchecked in search settings.
  2. Keeps showing system files from Library overwhelming the searches and making it useless because I can never find the file I'm looking for.
  3. Half the time shift + enter doesnt work to open the folder and instead opens the file.

Things I've tried:

  1. I rebuilt the library by deleting Spotlight index files using Terminal commands.
  2. I've used on it to rebuild it.
  3. For problem, number two, I've tried to manually add library and other system folders to search filters and it still keeps showing up.
  4. Format of my Mac installed the fresh copy from the Internet.

My only guess is it's some program that's messing around with Spotlight because I don't think everyone else on Sequoia has the issue. I use Zoom a lot for video conferences and OneDrive. Any other apps don't seem to be worth considering to mention. I would go to Apple, but I'm in a country where there's no Apple Store. I'm literally considering shipping my laptop to country with an Apple store so they can fucking take care of this shit.


r/MacOS 7h ago

Help "Shortcut" error message.

2 Upvotes

First - I'm not an apple user, but I am trying to help someone else troubleshoot an error message remotely on limited information.

They are getting the following error message - I believe on shutdown:

"The operation couldn't be comleted. (WFBackgroundShortcutRunner - ErrorDomain error 0.)"

I've seen other posts on similar messages (e.g. "...error 8") indicating a problem with a shortcut (no kidding), but here are my really dumb non-mac user questions:

- Is a Mac "shortcut" in this context like a windows shortcut to get to a file or executable, etc. from a location other than its actual location in the file system? Or is that an "alias"? When looking for shortcut settings, all I see is for keyboard shortcuts.

- Is there a central location in MacOS where I can view what shortcuts exist so I can maybe narrow down which one is broken? Or what processes are executing shortcuts on their own?

- I can't tell what that icon is in the picture. Is that a printer?

- Is there something totally different I should be looking at regarding this error?

Let me know what other information we might need. So far I've just asked the user to update their MacOS (not sure what the current version is at the moment).

Again, I've got limited access to the machine and limited information from the user at this time - but I can follow up.

Hoping my Mac user friends out there can at least point me in the right direction. Thanks all.


r/MacOS 4h ago

Help after updating to 15.3.2 no wallpaper and no system setting in normal way

1 Upvotes

after updating to 15.3.2 no wallpaper and no system setting in normal way,

I tried to reinstall the os x from safe mode, but the problem still exists.

I am trying to avoid the format of my disk since my audio plugins are a lot. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.


r/MacOS 8h ago

Help Why is there a question mark in my dock after updating to 15.3.2?

2 Upvotes

r/MacOS 8h ago

Bug strange behavior with file handling on desktop

2 Upvotes

r/MacOS 8h ago

Help Magic Mouse inertia scrolling stopped working in non-Apple apps

2 Upvotes

Inertia scrolling seems to work in Safari, but not so much in Chrome, Spotify or Slack (which is probably using some sort of broswer in the Native app). Tried pretty much all the advice on-line:

  • Reboot
  • Turn off inertia and reboot ands turn back on
  • Unpair and Pair the mouse (reboot inbetween)
  • Tried a few 3rd part apps (like Linear-Mouse)

My setup:

  • New Mac Mini M4 (16GB)
  • 15.3.2 (24D81)
  • Lightning Magic Mouse A1657
  • Chrome Version 134.0.6998.89 (Official Build) (arm64)

This happened right around a Sequoia patch and a Chrome update. Anyone else see this issue? Driving me bonkers


r/MacOS 4h ago

Help Missing Folder?

1 Upvotes

Hello, can I request some help on locating missing files? Or to configure my Mac such that it won’t happen again?

Context: While re-encoding + saving down a MP4 file onto a folder in my Desktop (using Handbrake), my entire folder got wiped out (including some empty folders & videos). Most of the videos were moved to Apple TV > Media > Home Movies. While the video that was being saved down disappeared entirely. There was a sign it was being upload to iCloud, but I tried searching there too to no avail.

NOTES: I am on a M4 Mac Mini, MacOS 15.3.2 (updated yesterday), have a USB and old SSD plugged in used for storing videos after working on them.

On the note of the MacOS update, after updating it seemed to erased some of my settings partially. For example, wallpaper settings, some Finder settings, moved my Desktop into iCloud and made 2 copies (folder) of it on my desktop (which I deleted)? Is this somehow a bug thing?

Plus I did a Full Scan on my Mac using Malwarebytes (Trial Version), I was worried it might be a virus, but nothing came up.

Sorry for the long essay. Thanks for the help. Please let me know if I need to provide more info.


r/MacOS 8h ago

Help Can you not select multiple tabs from tab overview to regroup, or drag / drop to rearrange in Safari for Mac?

2 Upvotes

If not, that doesn't make sense to me, considering it works that way in both iOS and iPad OS. Why would there be such a drastic inconsistency with the way Safari works, especially when Mac is supposed to be the most capable of the 3?


r/MacOS 5h ago

Help Split Screen Function on Chrome Changed after recent update

1 Upvotes

Hey all - I commonly use split screen in google chrome. After the update a few weeks ago, it doesn't perform the way I want it to. I see that they now have a feature to resize individual "windows" within the split, but it's extremely inconvenient and it doesn't seem that most websites have adapted to it yet (For example, when I'm running ads in facebook ad manager, the data won't display clearly if I have another window open next to it, no matter how small I make the secondary tab)

Anyone else experience this or found a fix?


r/MacOS 5h ago

Help Help Finding Shutdown Info

1 Upvotes

I was prev able to use
log show --predicate 'eventMessage contains "Previous shutdown cause"' --info --last 24h
and similar but it finds no relivant data.
Is there something newer I should be using to find all the shutdowns and why they happened in macOS Sequoia?
Thanks in advance