Slow user switching

Hm, didn´t know exactly why but the the changing now is faster. Not really the same than with Mojave because after the pw the screen turns into black, but the chancing time is about 10s!

What have I done?

1. Update to 10.15.1 (but seems to be useless)
2. Photo seems to stick while the fav-creating-processes since nearly a Week so I start to rebuild the Database (ALT-CMD-Start Photo).

Hopefully it is more than a "one-time-wonder" :-)

Same here, but it's not just user switching. All these functions are noticeably and PAINFULLY slow now since Catalina :

• waking from sleep
• opening PDFs
• opening any MS Office programme
• opening any MS Office document
• animated dock - jittery, launching an app from the doc pauses / stretches the animation
• launching the date / calendar from top right corner

I could go on. Catalina has completely ****ed my Mac, which I have been using completely painlessly for 3 years. There are days now I want to throw it out the window and go back to, well....Windows

OS Catalina 10.15.1 running on 3.4GHz Quad-core 16GB 21.5" Retina iMac

I have the same thing happening on a 2019 27" iMac with 6 cores. On mine, it's often even longer than 15 seconds and at least once, it wouldn't switch at all. I had log out to get back to the login screen to switch to the other user. Terrible experience!

This problem seems to have happened since the full release of Catalina. I was running the betas and didn't have this problem (only took a few seconds to switch). Now it's 15 seconds or longer. This is on a 2-month-old MacBook Pro, so specs are fine.

Same problem. I use 2 profiles all the time on my work and now everything slowed dow dramatically. Hope this gets solved fast.

I also get display properties shown on Touch Bar when I press the finger print button. "Same or Extended display"

Display link driver is installed if that cause that. But no external displays working without it.

Same issue here, so annoying, especially since it’s the only issue I’ve come across. I’ve had this issue in every instance of Catalina I’ve tried, since before public release, and continuing with the .1 beta. I’ve reverted back to Mojave after each time.

I've just replaced my 2010 iMac 27" with a 2019 iMac 27" with 2TB SSD and i9 processor - Why is the switching between users so slow - my old iMac using Sierra was so much quicker. I'm now waiting over 15 seconds for it to swap users - seems like a backwards step which has cost me a large sum of money! (Also I find the sound quality not as good as my old iMac).

Same here. MacBook Pro 15" mid 2012 2.7GHz i7 quad core. 16GB ram. 256gb Samsung ssd (with an addition 256gb kingston ssd for bootcamp win10).

So boot times are slow under Catalina, and user switching is painfully slow 20 second freeze. - Is a shame that the native OS is currently performing far worse than Bootcamp win10!

+1 for another person affected by this.

2019 MacBook Pro. Up to 20 seconds to switch between users. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but when logging into a new user account my Touch Bar says 'display connected' and definitely don't have a display connected.

I have exactly the same problem. iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

The user switch takes forever. Need a fix on this, running out of coffee... Apple, new things should be better, right?

It´s really bad.

I use my MBP 2013 with 2 users so we change many times a day. Every Change seems to nearly "crash" the mac.

WOD, freezing Windows for many, many seconds.

And waiting for up to 45s :-(

Apple help!!!!!

I also have this problem. I also have a problem on the hard disk when running first aid it reports

warning: MT mapping (0x40000009510f7 -> 0xd9e6fe, 3, C) is not completely referenced

Could they be related? Did the split of the hard drive to a system drive and a data drive create issues?

I did have the “hang at ‘setting up’ after screen time setup” issue. The one where if you’ve got 20,000 or so photos it tries to process them all again as a foreground task? before letting you continue (photoanalysisd). The one where you had to hard reboot during setup or wait for maybe two weeks! (Apple what are you playing at - tons of your pro users are photographers!)

hopefully this has nothing to do with the slow user switching now experienced!

i have noticed that leaving other users logged in means that photoanalysisd process for the other users goes really high cpu...

I only have the problem switching the user.

Everything else work fast and reliable.

But tonight I have seen that the AppStoreAgent flushs my Console-Log with Errormessages nearly ever 10 Secound.

Is this maybe the problem? The AppStore works normal and killing this process ist useless - the "logspaming" still goes on!

fehler 06:00:38.554383+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: Failed to fetch the cached account. error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

fehler 06:00:38.554488+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: [32A77E8F] Failed to create/fetch the local account.

fehler 06:00:38.554786+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.554883+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: Failed to fetch the cached account. error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

fehler 06:00:38.555206+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.555536+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.555600+0100 appstoreagent ACAccount: [32A77E8F] ams_setActive:forMediaType: cannot set active on local account.

fehler 06:00:38.555852+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.556349+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.556507+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: [32A77E8F] Failed to save an account. account = <ACAccount: 0x7ff84381db20 type = (null) | backingID = iTunesLocal-421A04EA-479A-4E46-B49D-556F7144518D | Local Account> | error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

fehler 06:00:38.556576+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: Failed to create the local account. error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

fehler 06:00:38.556719+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.556807+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: Failed to fetch the cached account. error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

fehler 06:00:38.556864+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: [32A77E8F] Failed to create/fetch the local account.

fehler 06:00:38.559897+0100 appstoreagent localUserUUID is nil

fehler 06:00:38.581178+0100 appstoreagent "Remote account store returned fatal error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service on pid 0 named com.apple.accountsd.accountmanager was invalidated.}"

fehler 06:00:38.581278+0100 appstoreagent ACAccountStore: Failed to fetch the cached account. error = Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=10002 "(null)"

Same issue, user switching before upgrading was quite fast, but now it's horribly slow. My Macbook Pro is older than the others you guys have mentioned (Late 2013 13"), so I thought it may be to do with that, but obviously not..

FWIW I didn't have any issues/errors installing Catalina