Occasionally, not always, after the Catalina upgrade, whenever my macbook sleeps, I lose the keyboard and the touchpad.
I must use my fingerprint to log in and once I do, I have no touchpad nor keyboard. I need to reboot everytime this happens.
Ok, I can confirm that 10.15.5 released today does not fix this issue.
For all the troubled souls like myself in this forum and beyond, here is a temporary workaround I figured out yesterday to get this gremlin out of your sight, until Apple officially fixes this.
Since the bug only occurs when Wi-Fi is on, we can create a process that automatically turns off Wi-Fi upon sleeping and turns it back on from waking up.
Copy this line to Terminal and hit Enter.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew install sleepwatcher
to install Sleepwatcher.
touch ~/.sleep && chmod 700 ~/.sleep
touch ~/.wakeup && chmod 700 ~/.wakeup
For .sleep
#!/bin/bash
networksetup setairportpower en0 off
For .wakeup
#!/bin/bash
networksetup setairportpower en0 on
cp /usr/local/Cellar/sleepwatcher/2.2.1/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility-localuser.plist
Now everything is set, go on and close the lid, wait awhile and reopen it, notice the Wi-Fi icon is off and quickly turns back on.
Although this is not the most elegant solution, it eases me from the paranoia that makes my blood frozen every time I suspect to see a yet again frozen computer. A moment of idea and inspiration just can't wait an extra 15 seconds.
I'm not an expert in these, if anyone would spot a mistake or suggest a better solution please post here, thank you.
I learned from these sources:
https://www.kodiakskorner.com/log/258
https://gist.github.com/ziadoz/7bddcf346adb89da1e990126c9f82429
https://github.com/wujunchuan/wujunchuan.github.io/issues/9
I'm on a brand new 16" macbook pro. No VM ware. And same problem! sometimes 10-30 sec and it fixes itself, sometimes it doesn't. Looks like a 10.15 bug. Apple are you monitoring this ?
Also, I have wifi on all the time and for me that is a constant. Will be a real pain if I have to manually turn it off before sleep. In that case I'll probably run Amphetamine al the time!
Unfortunately nachogt's workaround doesn't work for me.
I did the above and my mac doesn't instantly wake up after I press the sleep button, I need to either touch the touch-strip or attach an external mouse to wake it up, while still having no keyboard and no touchpad.
Had a call with apple "support". The problem is not know yet. They suggested a clean install.
No time for that. MacBook is brand new. Can't be cleaner. Please keep on posting. Apple needs to get to know about this annoying issue. If someone has time for a clean install...please share your results.
I upgraded to Catalina 10.15.3. 2 days ago and this started happening. I never had these problems before.
I have reseted everything yet it remains.
I have no VMWare on my mac or external devices connected.
Even the sleep button doesn't do anything for me.
Is there any solution to this problem?
I have the exact same issue, every time I turn it on after sleep it takes approximately 30 seconds to the touchpad and keyboard to start working which is incredibly annoying.
Not even a 100 dollars laptop has such a problem.
i have a brand new mac book. came with catalina. i'm not sure but i think i only have this problem when i do not disconnect the vpn service before going to sleep. as the problem occurs rare times it is hard to test. i`ll keep you posted.
I just started having this issue tonight on my 13" 2019 MacBook Pro. I do have a VPN but it's rarely connected (it wasn't tonight) and I'm on Catalina. The only weird thing today is that my WiFi's been really spotty all night so I'm not sure if that's somehow causing it. It shouldn't be the issue. I haven't done any troubleshooting yet but just wanted to chime in and report that yet another 2019 Pro is experiencing this problem. Hopefully Apple will notice.
I still have Mojave on my 13’ MacBook Air. Same issue. After sleep the trackpad and cursor do not respond at all. I’m constantly rebooting my MacBook. Just mentioning this because people have said that it is just with Catalina however I am here to tell you that my mojave is Jank too
Same problem here. 2017 MacBook Pro 13" non touchbar on Catalina. Recently updated to Catalina and started getting these issues. Y usb keyboard works fine but the builtin keyboard and trackpad stop working. I believe this can be fixed easily by a software upgrade. @apple do something.
I have this exact same issue on my Macbook "Pro" 2018 touchbar with the latest Catalina version. I just reinstalled the OS and didn't even installed any program or application. After a few hours, the problem appeared again. Can't believe that a 3000$ laptop is having this kind of issues!! Already filled up the feedback report and I'm going to publish this on social media. Let's see if that makes Apple react.
Yeah, I mentioned that I already filled the report through that link. We really have to make ourselves heard, we are not paying this kind of money for such bad quality. Already have twitted about it, maybe you can do it too. Hope we can do something. Regards!
I haven't had the issue for a couple of days. Although my laptop seems to be suffering from nightly rebooting errors.
Is it software that we all share? I mean nonapp store stuff that is causing it? I am using an airbook 2020 i5 and a macbook pro 16 2019. ONly using one blue tooth device (Jabra MOVE v2.5.0 headset)
I have the following installed that might be non-app store (actually some are):
Zoom
URL shortener
Turbo Boost switcher pro
Toothfairy
There
Teamview
speed test
Sophos
Skype
Pock
PDF editor 6
Parallels toolbox
Parallels
Onedrive
Nordvpn
Nightowl
Microsoft suit including Teams
Macupdater
MAc fan control
Intel Power gadget
Grammarly
Chrome
Gemini 2
Folx
Enolsoft pdf password remover
drop over
discord
Clean my macx
Bartender 3
BAck up and sync
Audacity
AStrill VPN
Annotate
Android File transfer
Amazon photos
Alfred
One of these perhaps?
The ones I have in common are
I do think 3rd party apps are unlikely to be the cause though, since I've experienced this bug from a clean 10.15.4 with only Bear from the App Store installed.
Ya - ok - but this wasn't a thing on my old 2016 macbook 15 inch that kept falling apart. I am trying to think of what I do differently... random things I may have changed, like hotcorners, or like I now have my wallpaper to change up every 30 minutes. I mean... could it be something weird like that?
The only question is, if something as fundamental as the Wi-Fi code in MacOS is corrupted, I think we shall see a significantly larger case number than what we have now. Even if this is an idiosyncratic issue to the 16", we should hear more people talking about this outside this forum. This really gets into my hair.
Keyboard and touchpad lost after sleep
