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USB 3.0 Hub Broken on Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1

Since upgrading to Mac OS Monterey, solely the USB 3.0 port on my Hub has stopped working. Power is allowed to pass through to connected devices, however the transfer of data has stopped working.


Everything was working on Mac OS Big Sur, and it is only since updating to Monterey it has stopped working. I have found several reports on the developer forums for Mac OS stating this was an issue since around Beta 3 for some users, and there are reports on Reddit of other people having this issue.


Apple Support were useless and told me to bring my Mac in for repair (despite it only being 4 days old and the issue happening directly after an update) I took the Hub back to the place of purchase and they tested it on a Mac with Big Sur installed and it worked. When plugging it into another Mac that had been updated to Monterey the 3.0 Port stopped working.


It's an Advent Hub, not some dodgy knockoff one of Amazon. It worked absolutely fine prior to the Monterey upgrade.


Now when plugging in my iPhone via USB 3.0 or my Mouse, all that happens is the LED's on my mouse light up (but not the laser) or my iPhone charges, but won't connect to my Mac.


Oddly, both the HDMI and USB-C port on the hub continue to work as expected.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 28, 2021 2:53 AM

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Posted on Oct 28, 2021 5:37 AM

Thanks for your response.


Unfortunately I don't have an Intel Mac to test this on, both machines tested at the place of purchase were M1 based Macs. My Mac, is also M1 based.


M1 with Big Sur = Working USB Hub


M1 with Monterey = Broken USB Hub with only HDMI and USB-C working on the hub, but no USB 3.0


It would be interesting to test with an Intel Mac on both Monterey and Big Sur, to see if the issues are consistent across both chipsets and OS's. The fact of the matter is though, my M1 based machine worked fine with this hub on Big Sur, and Monterey has changed that.

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Oct 29, 2021 9:00 AM in response to macuser1996ms

It would appear that it is a chipset issue within the USB-C hubs with Monterey. I am using a Belkin Multimedia USB-C hub and it is functioning just fine with my M1 MacBook Air. Seeing pretty much the same speed with USB drives as I did with Big Sur.


I have four drives connected, one directly to the hub and the other 3 are connected to a Sabrent USB3 hub connected to the Belkin.

Oct 29, 2021 9:22 AM in response to woodmeister50

Fortunately for me USB-C drives speed has turned good with Monterey but as I already said - with a bit of polemic - somebody somewhere in Cupertino is unable to develop good USB drivers as I'm seeing theese as the worst in the world since 1998.

This said, the USB worl is a mess itself. Many product are very low quality products rebranded and sold as per high quality products. This also for hubs, cables, cameras, keyboards, mice, ecc ecc. Therefore I'm asking myself if the problem is just into the dirvers.

Oct 29, 2021 11:38 AM in response to macuser1996ms

My Dell USB-C hub also started having problems. It powers my MBP (no issues), connects two external monitors (no issues with those) and a Logitech webcam which doesn't seem to work after the computer wakes from sleep or is idle for a long period of time. Unplugging and plugging in the hub resolves the webcam issue sometimes though not always. Never had an issue with it before upgrading to Monterey.

Oct 29, 2021 6:36 PM in response to macuser1996ms

I am having this same problem with my ikling 15-in-1 hub I have tried it on my Mac desk top and works fine but not on my Mac Book Pro with the M1 chip worked fine till I updated to Monterey as soon as I did that the hub stopped working properly. The hub gets power to all the ports but no data transfer at all no either net plug working. the problem seams to be with the M1 chip set the Mac desk top is running Monterey and no issues the desk top dose not have the M!1 chip. when will we see a fix on this?

Oct 29, 2021 11:20 PM in response to macuser1996ms

Adding myself to the rant... I cannot run TM anymore, the disk external is not working anymore. the strange thing is that MacOS is asking the password for the disk, which I have provided. Then, nothing else happens. I believe this is also an issue with the higher level, as Disk Utilities get a spinning ball and cannot present the disks connected to the Mac... Something is wrong with the disk permissions, the disk mount, and the fact that an external disk is making a spinning ball of Disk Utility, while it was perfectly working with Big Sur, says enough... Never install version .0... never...



Oct 30, 2021 4:38 AM in response to macuser1996ms

Sadly, I have the same Problem.


i am running the M1 MacBook Pro. Under MacOS BigSur I could use a USB-C HUB from Amazon to connect to my Monitor, as well as some peripherals (A Logitech Webcam and a Blue Yeti Microphone) - All that while PowerDelivery was working as well.

Now with my Mac being updated to Monterey, everything that is connected via USB 3.0 isn't detected by the system. Monitor and PowerDelivery works just fine. but I can't us anything else. tried another USB HUB, same problem.


Hope this gets fixed soon...

Oct 30, 2021 11:38 AM in response to rodian2

I spent 2 hours on the chat with a apple rep and they could not come up with a answer. they had me reboot, create a new admi, reboot in safe mode, rest the sec and nvram none of that worked. They said to reinstall Monterey doing that right now said 6 hours to do it will see if that fixes it not hopeful. I have contacted ikling at ikling at ikling.com to let them know the issue I am having if they can fix it will let people know.

Oct 30, 2021 1:12 PM in response to rodian2

after the full reinstall of Monterey 5 hours no dice still dose not work. Now I am waiting on ikling to get back to me after reporting the issue to them. right now to get to use my portable hard drive I am using a j5 create usb 3.1 type-c to type-A adapter works but it is very slow. When I unplug this adapter and plug in the ikling adapter it sees it as the j5 create one not the ikling one. Not sure why and only one USB port on the ikling works like it is still the J5 Create usb.

USB 3.0 Hub Broken on Mac OS Monterey 12.0.1

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