SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

Actually, the sleep schedule might be connected? I didn’t use it for the first month or so, but started using it since last week. Even with it I usually put my computer to sleep, but there was one night that it went to sleep by schedule. It is possible, but I’m not certain, that that was the night it happened.

This just occurred while updating to latest BS OS update. I'm guessing but I suspect it may have something to do with the external hard drives. I keep two active one for tTimeMachine Backups and the other where I keep all active files. The third (an older drive) is connected for archiving old files. I had the third active when this happened.

I just bought a new Mac Mini M1 16G 256 storage two days ago, Big Sur 11.2.3 installed and the same thing happened twice: green screen and reboot. Error log is [SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired). I was also using a WD external hard drive (circa 2012-13) to manually transfer documents (only one or two apps, both updated), and I believe the drive was attached during both incidents. Have detached and will update in a week or two.

I have a brand new MacBook Air and this has been happening to me from Day 1. I have been regularly engaged with 2nd level support. I have repeatedly wiped my disk, reinstalled Big Sur, and worked without any peripherals. It is still happening and they are now going to take my machine and replace the logic board (apple-speak for mother board).

I have a 16 GB/1 TB M1 MacBook Air. It runs 24 x 7 and I am getting the following kernel panic:

SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

In my case I have and OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock connected. There are a bunch of peripherals connected to the dock. I sure hope this is a software issue. Not interested having to change out the hardware.

I have a Timemachine drive and a drive where I keep my work that I work from. The internal drive on my M1 Mac Mini keeps my apps and system files and I clean out anything that may fill it up since it’s only an 256gb SD.

I mostly work with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro. The first error crash happened when I had third drive on which I usually eject but forgot. Weeks later it happened again while working on Photoshop. The third drive was not connected. Could be a software conflict perhaps? It was working fine with the two drives for the three months after I bought the Mac mini. I see many users having the same issue. Hope Apple can figure this out.

Same thing happened to me, twice now with M1 Mac Mini 8GB purchased at the end of February. All of a sudden screen turns green and computer reboots, and the error message is the same "SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)" - whatever that means. Have two external drives connected, but one time this happened with computer in sleep mode, the other time while using Spotify.

I was having this issue every couple of days at the end of Feb with my new Mac Mini M1 (1TB, 16GB) with a Time Machine 4GB Seagate HDD (external power) plugged directly into one USB and the other USB going to a powered USB 3.0 Hub.

After reading about this issue on several sites, some suggested that it might be the USB HDD that was the problem. I moved the USB HDD to the powered USB hub instead (left the 2nd USB on the Mini blank). It has been a month using the computer 12+ hours a day and powered on 24/7. The error had not happened since.

I've just had this too, M1 MacBook Pro. No external storage connected, in fact no devices connected.

Using Safari at the time, with Music, Messages, Photos, NetNewsWire and Visual Studio Code open in the background.

No weird 3rd party utilities installed to my knowledge. It's been otherwise fine for the past 41 days.

I have the exact same problem. Support suggested I take out everything connected to the M1 and any hubs, then restart at each phase and see what happened. (I did and all restarts worked properly)

This of course, was after doing an OS reinstall as well

They say if I can't replicate the error (get the M1 to crash), then they can't help me lol

Same log: SOCD report detected: (AP watchdog expired)

Would love to know a solution

Connected through a non-powered hub is a WD MY Book (I use this to back up certain files, once a month) and a Focusrite audio signal box.

Hub is connected directly to the M1, as is OWC for Time Machine, monitor, and dongle for wireless logitech keyboard

Also have speakers and an OWC for Time Machine connected to the M1

And like most of you all, support has unfortunately not been very helpful

Love to hear any fixes on this. Good luck to all!

I have the same problem. Mac Mini M1, 16 GB. Worked with Adobe Illustrator on an artwork. Monitor turned black and computer restarted out of nowhere. Very annoying. Most damage: My trust in that M1 mac mini machine. I started to save my projects almost every 2 minutes in fear I might loose all work progress.

In addition to what I've written before:

Apple support reached out to me for troubleshooting, which was great, at least they are trying to figure out what is going on.

I still have my WD external drive connected for Time Machine, it's connected 24/7 and I have not had a AP Watchdog failure since it happened the first and only time. Since that first time I manually put the machine to sleep every night and manually wake it up. Not sure if that is connected.

Earlier today I initiated a manual reboot (after ± 2weeks of running and sleeping) and after boot I got an error specifying that the machine had to reboot because of an issue with the watchdog (not AP watchdog), I've send the report of to Apple hoping that it will be helpful.

I have also noticed that the machine is taking a loooooooong time to boot, it takes about 45 seconds before I get any indication that it is actually booting; screens are black, no chimes etc.

Even if not running, Time Machine could cause issues. But good to know it does not seem to be peripherals as some report problem with no externals and some report no Time Machine running.

Therefore it is most likely that it is all Apple that needs to fix this ASAP!

Apple will keep bouncing it to the users — do this, do that, work with no external hard drives(!), etc. — over and over until, they wake up and fix it… in Cupertino.