SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

Well, that didn't take long. I had ejected then unplugged my Seagate drive about 15 minutes prior to my last post, and just now (within 5 minutes) it green screened again.

So definitely, for me, not related to my USB drive.

At the time, I was adjusting camera settings as I am presenting at a national conference in Brazil online this evening. Or at least I was supposed to.

I'd just like to add, with hopes that apple engineers read this later, that I also have just experienced this same problem on my Macbook air M1, 16GB.

This is a new computer, I have only been using it for a month, and I had NO USB drive connected at the time of the crash.

I only had google chrome and WhatsApp open when it happened.

Fingers crossed that this is a one-time thing.

Same here. Happened to me three times so far. It's the watchdog that expires, exactly. Does Apple know about this? We are loyal Apple slaves willing to buy anything they throw at us but can you please make the watchdog stop biting us?

--SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired) --

My MacBook Air M1 2020 just stopped and restarted, showing this report.

No external drives were/ are attached. Just operating MS Office, WhatsApp & Google drive.

This was a first for me, since purchasing MacBook in February 2021.

Good to know, I'm not the only one with this issue, but uncertain this issue is resolved.

Not replying to anyone in particular:

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I have the same issue with my brand new Mac Mini M1. It keep crashing often, at least twice a day and honestly I never had such issue with any of my Apple devices in the last 10 years. My screen turns all green and it restart the Mac Mini. I start to be very disappointed with this product. Wrong to buy it for sure.

Although it may not be relevant, I had the same problem with iPhone 12 (iOS 14.6). It happened at 2 a.m. while charging, while I was sleeping. When I woke up I found that the iPhone had restarted. There wasn't any hard drive connected, just the charger.

Honestly, I cannot believe this issue is till happening. When I first posted about this, after a few weeks of following countless Apple steps, I returned the device.

Yesterday, 8th June 2021, I purchased another Mac Mini M1. Thus far, I have not had the issue, but, time will tell.

Instead, I now have an issue with the device waking, i.e. showing details on my Samsung C49" screen. Only happens on restart (thus far).

Alas, I digress. Again, still cannot believe Apple have not fixed this "AP watchdog expired" error...

Drat, it happened again (M1 Mac Mini, Big Sur 14.1, a USB hub 3.0 hub, SSD drive plugged into USB C port, monitor in HDMI port). Was just listening to an NPR story and poof. (Does anyone even know what "SOCD report detected: AP watchdog expired means?" Apple, where are you? Stop coming up with new colors and fix problems.

That is exactly what happened to me. My first M1 mini was a refurb. My second was a brand new one. It hasn't happened in a while, though. My problems lately are failing to wake up if I put it to sleep and excessive battery drain on bluetooth keyboard and trackpad.

My M1 MacBook Pro has crashed thrice. Twice when I was live streaming, that's been a mess. Once when I was watching a YouTube video. Twice when I was live streaming, got the same error - SOCD AP Watchdog expired. I called apple support, they suggested a reinstall. Has anybody done that? Does that help? How did your issue resolve. Kindly advice.

I have 2 Mac minis. One has never crashed over 6 months (has one USB 2TB ext powered hard drive and one 1TB Thunderbolt SSD drive). The other newer one has crashed 3 times on me. It has a powered hub and a 4TB ext powered WD hard drive.

I just had my first ever crash, external monitor plugged in via an USB-C-HDMI converter. I also plugged in the whole thing to external power supply, which was the power supply of the iPad Pro (USB-C) and not the 60W one that was shipped with the computer. Macboor Air 16GB 512GB SSD

Now I make a try with the 60W power supply, maybe that was the reason.

My issue occurred while streaming HBOmax. So it seems to be related to both having external drives and streaming content. With regard to the streaming, it's occurring likely via a UDP protocol and not TCP, which is a security vulnerability. I wonder if there is some connection here... Hmmmm...