I have a M1 MBP with 16G of memory but when I try and watch Disney plus it just states " website was reloaded because it was using significant memory" I do not have any AD blockers installed on safari. if I open Activity monitor you can see it using about 9G of memory before it reloads. is this a Software issue on Apples side or Coding on Disney+? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2
I have the exact same problem. Only way to solve the problem for me was installing Google Chrome and use that as a browser when streaming from Disney+. I talked to Apple Support today, and they admitted that their browser had some issues when running Disney+. They suggested me to download Google Chrome, here and now, he said that Apple would fix the problem in the future. /Michael, Denmark
I have the exact same problem. Only way to solve the problem for me was installing Google Chrome and use that as a browser when streaming from Disney+. I talked to Apple Support today, and they admitted that their browser had some issues when running Disney+. They suggested me to download Google Chrome, here and now, he said that Apple would fix the problem in the future. /Michael, Denmark
I have the exact same situation. Mac OS 11.2.2. Macbook Pro M1 with 16GB ram. The Disney Plus GUI locks up in Safari all the time. Usually after a few minutes into a stream the Disney Plus UI becomes inoperable within Safari. Safari will repeatedly display annoying memory usage banners on screen. I think some system process is causing the stream buffer to malfunction.
The only solution I've found so far is to use another browser.
Currently Disney Plus breaks Safari on ARM.
It was never a problem for me until Mac OS 11.2.2.
I have the same issue... the only way i found to overcome this problem was by installing Safari Technology Preview. It takes some time to load the disney plus page (for some reason) but once it's loaded everything works just fine without any refresh.
Same issue with Safari using Disney Plus:
My Solution : Different browser!
Yes, this problem is present on my MacIntel: MacBook Pro 15" 2019 16 GB. But if I open the site with Firefox... there's no annoying message at all and the page doesn't re-loads itself.
I also had to download Chrome and it solved my issue, I much prefer to use Safari though.
I have had this, so annoying. I went into the Disney Plus settings, and unticked stream at highest quality, to 4 k and replaced with stream hd. This seems to have worked ,
Hi,
It does seem to work, I've just this minute tested it again using S.T on my laptop ( I used S.T last night on my Mac Mini ), the one strange thing is, you still get that message but it doesn't do anything unlike using Safari.
I have the latest build for S.T ( 122 ), so I would go for it.
I'll report if I get any issues suddenly .
Steve
I tried this but it gave me 10+ options to downloads and the links looked sketchy :/ May have been on the wrong one, but I've found that Google Chrome works a lot better and it is very quick with loading. (Just have to download google chrome, which is quick and easy). Hope this helps too :)
This happens to me!! I stopped using Safari and downloaded Google Chrome, now I have no problems with my Disney plus saying "significant memory" and it doesnt keep reloading. Hope this helps
I also have this issue I have to watch Disney Plus in CHROME and it uses significantly less memory. Not what I would have expected
I don’t think this is apples fault, when opening activity monitor Disney plus takes a lot of RAM...on every browser you use. Safari just try’s to prevent this from happening by reloading and closing the site. Looking into it Disney plus hikes significantly compared to other streaming sites... had more RAM accumulate with only Disney plus open than when I had HBO MAX+ Microsoft word + PowerPoint + 6 safari tabs open with a YouTube video playing on silent. I hope Disney plus fixes this soon...
Yes Chrome is the easiest way but it's not at full resolution. With technology preview you can manage to watch everything at higher resolution than Chrome.
At the moment while disneyplus.com continues to stack its process memory the only solution is to close tabs that are using the most memory (activity monitor > view > all processes > memory) that’s it.
safari reloads itself when the memory usage gets to 4.40 gigabytes!
hopefully Disney corrects this issue
Same for me as well:
Disney+ using Safari on a MacMini 2018 8GB i5
You can watch the Memory consumption rising up to 2GB when the prompt appears and the webpage forcefully reloads. I do understand the mechanics behind it, but since I do not face this when running Netflix or PrimeVideo (no issues at all: Netflix steadily around 500MB and Prime approx. 600MB) this seems to be linked to "website interpretation of the content" and allocating resources, no?
Tried to usual suspects (as already outline) with no effect.
Disney Plus uses significant memory
