I cannot upload files with Safari after macOS 12.0.1 update

This exact thing happened to me and its INSANELY annoying. I update my blog on weebly daily and now I cannot add photos to my posts or add photos to a post on twitter. When I write my tweet and then click the photo icon to upload an image, the box doesn't pop up to select image. It happens on Chrome-Brave and Safari and on twitter, weebly, facebook...

IT IS DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE because I need this for work every single day..... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Sea-spider,

We understand that you're having trouble uploading files to third-party sites using Safari on your MacBook Air. What happens when you try? Is the option missing or greyed out, or do you receive any errors or alerts? Please provide us as many details as possible about what you're experiencing so that we can best assist you.

Thanks!

It is still happening on my macbook air m1 2020. It is INSANELY annoying since my job is to upload photos to a blog and I cannot manually do this so I have to keep restarting my computer 10 times a day.

APPLE FIX THIS NOW PLEASE!!! This is driving me up the freaking wall.

I have the same issue and it's August 2022, have updated my MacBook Pro and unable to upload files/pictures to third party websites just receive the below message every time. I tried uploading using Chrome which worked the time I tried. Can't use Safari though and should be able to!

I have the same problem! It happens every single day. I have to restart my device in order to upload again.

There are sites where you can drag the photos/videos but for social media sites like Facebook & LinkedIn there is no way to drag the photos to upload. Hope Monterey can sort this issue.

I've been having the same trouble. On a website, Chrome won't trigger the upload/attach dialog when clicking a button on a website, but drag-and-drop will usually work on sites that allow that method.

Also, printing to PDF from ANYWHERE in MacOS, (Monterey 12.0.1 on 2020 M1 Mac Mini), doesn't work. Workaround is sometimes available to Open PDF in Preview, and then Save it there. 

Also, also, printing from Chrome is currently borked. Pages come out formatted a bit wonky. Printing from other browsers is usually better.

Like others, I also found using Safari a useful workaround, but over time when I was up- and downloading and printing a whole bunch of documents, it stopped working too. So I switched to Firefox, and it too worked only for a while, and the same again with Edge. Updating and restarting Chrome for me fixed it a couple weeks ago, but then the problem came back.

And to be clear, updating Chrome fixed both the uploading problem AND the PDF/Printing problems. But all only temporarily. So it seems clear they're all related. 

I'm going to try the solution mentioned of updating permissions for all 4 browsers and see how far that gets me. But given the systemwide related problems, it seems like an Apple problem to me, maybe regarding the M1 chips, or maybe Monterey.

Same here. It occurs in every 2-3 days on Chrome and Slack.

I can't upload images (browse files folder doesn't appear). I have to restart browser and Slack. Slack is not a big problem but on Chrome I have to close and reload around 15-20 tabs, some of them with not completed tasks. It's very frustrating

I've been having this issue since purchasing my MacBook M1 Pro in Oct. Literally received my laptop a week after launch and every few days I have to restart my computer to get the glitch to go away. For any and all sites that require an upload, the upload button will not open my Finder to allow me to upload.

UPDATE: problem persists even after updating OS to 12.2, updating Chrome to 97.0.4692.99, and updating all browsers' permissions as noted above, and doing a full system restart.

Chrome, will NOT download, upload, or print to PDF

Edge, will NOT download, upload, or print to PDF*

Safari, WILL download and upload, but will NOT print to PDF

Firefox, WILL upload and download, will NOT print to PDF

Preview, WILL print to PDF.

As before, the features above that ARE working, I would expect to eventually begin not working, based on prior experience.

Clicking on the Download button on sites also does nothing. The buttons don't even highlight or anything to show they've been clicked. However, it seems there IS an upload/download process that has been initially triggered, but it goes nowhere. Because if I click on download buttons in Edge or Chrome, they do nothing at all. But if I then close the app, I get a warning telling me that a download is still in progress. I confirmed that there are not any partially completed or in-progress downloads in my Downloads folder. But it knows the process was attempted. This seems like a system-level problem. This is also identical to how the Save to PDF error fails: clicking on the button to do so shows absolutely NO visible response.

Still happening to me... INSANELY annoying since I work as a food blogger and every single day I am supposed to upload photos to my blog but I have to keep restarting my computer or browser multiple times a day

CAN SOMEONE FROM APPLE COMMENT?

I've been having the same trouble. On a website, Chrome or Edge won't trigger the upload/attach dialog when clicking a button on a website, but drag-and-drop will usually work on sites that allow that method. Clicking on the Download button on sites also does nothing. The buttons don't even highlight or anything to show they've been clicked. 

However, it seems there IS an upload/download process that has been initially triggered, but it goes nowhere. Because if I click on download buttons in Edge or Chrome, they do nothing at all. But if I then close the app, I get a warning telling me that a download is still in progress.  I confirmed that there are not any partially completed or in-progress downloads in my Downloads folder. But it knows the process was attempted. This seems like a system-level problem. This is also identical to how the Save to PDF error fails: clicking on the button to do so shows absolutely NO visible response.

Also, printing to PDF from ANYWHERE in MacOS, (Monterey 12.0.1 on 2020 M1 Mac Mini), doesn't work. Workaround is sometimes available to Open PDF in Preview, and then Save it there. 

Also, also, printing from Chrome is currently borked. Pages come out formatted a bit wonky. Printing from other browsers is usually better. Not sure if this is related.

Like others, I also found using Safari a useful workaround, but over time when I was up- and downloading and printing a whole bunch of documents, it stopped working too. So I switched to Firefox, and it too worked only for a while, and the same again with Edge. Updating and restarting Chrome for me fixed it a couple weeks ago, but then the problem came back.

And to be clear, updating Chrome fixed both the uploading problem AND the PDF/Printing problems. But all only temporarily. So it seems clear they're all related. 

I'm going to try the solution mentioned of updating permissions for all 4 browsers and see how far that gets me. But given the systemwide related problems, it seems like an Apple problem to me, maybe regarding the M1 chips, or maybe Monterey.

UPDATE: problem persists even after updating OS to 12.2, updating Chrome to 97.0.4692.99, and updating all browsers' permissions as noted above, and doing a full system restart. 

Chrome, will NOT download, upload, or print to PDF

Edge, will NOT download, upload, or print to PDF*

Safari, WILL download and upload, but will NOT print to PDF

Firefox, WILL upload and download, will NOT print to PDF

Preview, WILL print to PDF. 

As before, the features above that ARE working, I would expect to eventually begin not working, based on prior experience.

I also cannot upload photos to Linkedin etc. I can not attach files in google chrome. Nor can I download with a simple arrow down click. I have to "print"/open as PDF then save as from there. It is maddening.

I've been having the same issue for a couple of months now. It's INSANELY annoying. I have to restart my laptop several times a day. The worst part is that I never know when it's going to stop working again. It seems like there's no specific trigger after which the laptop stops uploading files, both to a browser and local apps like Camtasia.

The Apple team, please help. This is driving me nuts.