Catalina 10.15.6 keeps crashing

Here the same thing, my macbook pro 2015 freezes around once a day. No other option then hard rebooting. I would like to see an statement from apple where they state they are acknowledging the issue assist and are working on a fix.

I installed the update just over 13 hours ago. After a night of inactivity, my Mac Mini (2020) has not rebooted. I don't use VirtualBox or VMware. My mini would reboot almost every night due to a watchdog timeout. Here's hoping that this update has finally resolved the issue.

This is a little off topic, but very interesting to me. Concerning the just released update, I have an old late 2009 iMac (in addition to two recent ones) which runs the High Sierra OS. I understand that High Sierra is no longer supported. However, yesterday it updated itself. Totally unexpected. That tells me that Apple must have determined that this update was badly needed to fix something. It speaks well for them, in my mind.

Thanks for the help but I unfortunately I saw your message too late. I actually just wiped my drive clean after saving my important files, and downloaded a clean os install. Then I reset my nvram/pram to get my Touch Bar to work again. The OS is actually a bit different now because now the log in page after a restart comes instantly and then after I unlock the computer, the loading bar shows up. Kind of strange because that's never how my computer was before, but so far I'm having no issues. Hopefully this isn't like the other 10 things I've tried and it stays fixed.

I have the same problem. But I found a wonderful solution which permanently fixed my problem and now I am completely frustration free. The solution: I went back to using my PC laptop with Windows 10, which never crashed once in all the years that I owned it. Apple used to make good stuff but nowadays Apple has become synonymous with crap and utter frustration.

Because the Supplemental Update didn't stop the kernel panics, I decided to downgrade from 10.15.6 to the macOS that came with my MacBook Air: Catalina 10.15.3.

To do so, I rebooted my Mac pressing Shift-Option-⌘-R, exactly as suggested by Apple Support:

Almost three hours later, the installation has finished, but it is not 10.15.3 I got. It is the all buggy, permanently panicking 10.15.6 again. This is so bizarre, I don't even have words for this. Isn't there any way to get rid of this freakin' car crash of a macOS version?

Apple themselves have no idea what’s going on. Their support team has had me reset everything there is to reset. They made me wipe my drives and reinstall the os. They made me make a new partition and reinstall the os. They are completely clueless about this. This is so mind blowing how horribly they’re handling this.

Roxadaurus wrote:

As I said in my previous post, Windows 10 is the answer. …

People in this discussion are looking for help to solve a specific technical issue in macOS.

“Get Windows” is no solution, your comment is far from helpful, and it might easily be considered as trolling.

This is a macOS forum. People here are looking for macOS specific help and information. Your ranting on and on and on about Windows 10 is of no help whatsoever. You are in the wrong forum. Continuing your rants is simply trolling.

Actually the monitor of my iMac no longer shuts off after the elapsed time. I have unchecked the wake on LAN setting. The screen saver kicks in as expected it is just the monitor that does not time out and turn off. I will check out the “Preventing Sleep” section of Activity Monitor as you suggested. Thank you for your response.

Okay, I agree to what you and others have said and I will stop ranting. But I am just extremely frustrated that I can't find a solution to my Kernel Panic issues. I even spent a long time with Apple support on the phone and they had me reinstall my entire operating system. But the issues just came back. But I agree with what you say, that just letting off steam doesn't help anyone. So no worries, I'll keep my mouth shut for now and just hope the OS issues get fixed some time soon.

Very helpful summary. I am going to apple’s flagship store this week with my macbook. I’ll update anything that they have to say. Hopefully since it’s Apple’s main store, they’ll be able to provide some help to this.

Being quite desperate, I installed the Big Sur public beta today. But without luck: My MacBook just crashed again. There are two options now:

1) A hardware defect on a brand new computer, which just coincides with similar kernel panic issues of many other users.

2) A macOS problem which affects both Catalina and Big Sur.

I guess I'll have to return the Mac to the shop.

After installing the supplemental update 13.15.6 no problems until now: in mail no text of the e-mails, closed mail and tried to open Firefox and the system crashed. My iMac (late 2012) would not restart and a hard restart was the only option. So instead of a crash every three or four days, it is now a crash after 7 days. :-(

I do not have Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Cloud but am experiencing the kernel panic/ crash and reboot when using sleep mode. I have had this problem on 2 different brand new iMacs with very little software installed.