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Is anyone else experiencing an annoying intermittent freezing since upgrading to Monterey 12.4? It's very irritating and especially noticeable whole listening to music. The cursor freezes as well. It lasts for a few seconds and seems to come in burts of 2-3 incidents at a time. Very intermittent, but still an issue.
iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 12.4
BPBeckett wrote:
Is anyone else experiencing an annoying intermittent freezing since upgrading to Monterey 12.4? It's very irritating and especially noticeable whole listening to music. The cursor freezes as well. It lasts for a few seconds and seems to come in burts of 2-3 incidents at a time. Very intermittent, but still an issue.
Have you tried rebooting more than once since the upgrade...?
Have you tried SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort anomalies ..?
Takes a bit longer to get to the login screen, does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
BPBeckett wrote:
Is anyone else experiencing an annoying intermittent freezing since upgrading to Monterey 12.4? It's very irritating and especially noticeable whole listening to music. The cursor freezes as well. It lasts for a few seconds and seems to come in burts of 2-3 incidents at a time. Very intermittent, but still an issue.
Have you tried rebooting more than once since the upgrade...?
Have you tried SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort anomalies ..?
Takes a bit longer to get to the login screen, does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
1 - Suggest restarting in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.
2 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.
3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?
4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.
5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.
6 - If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance.
7- Suggest downloading the Application Etrecheck directly from a well Respected ASC Contributor. And Safe to use.
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Run the application with Full Disc Access ( Security & Privacy - Full Disc Access ).
It will take a Snap Shot - both the hardware and software.
The Report will Not Reveal Any Personal Information.
Post back the Full Report - copy and paste - using the Additional Text Icon ( 3rd Icon to last )
We can have a look at the report for possible issues and may have possible suggestions to resolve the issues.
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Yep. Been happening for a couple of weeks with increasing regularity.
Has been making me *crazee*. 2019 27 iMac which has been _smooth_ until lately and handling all of my image editing software nicely. I keep updating hoping it'll resolve, and also cleaning up old scraps of apps.
Sometimes simply pauses with the spinning soccer ball for a minute or two, other times leading to a reboot to my login.
I've ordered two new sticks of memory to bring it up to 64GB (to have 16GB x4).
Still working on it hoping to avoid a full out re-install of everything.
Thanks I will try the Safe Boot option. I am also experiencing some slight lag-time with my trackpad. I tried the magic mouse and same result. However, a corded mouse works fine. Again, these issues (slight freezes and Bluetooth lagging) popped up after I updated to 12.4. I haven't noticed anything else...yet.
Must admit - slight Magic Mouse with Rechargeable Battery on M1 Mac Mini Monterey 12.4 . Slightest lag in movement today after the update.
Nothing serious but did Mouse ON and OFF and ON again and presto - like new again.
Attribute it to things settling down post update.
Thank you to those who chimed-in. A Safe Boot and then another reboot right after seems to have fixed those issues (for now)........Hopefully they will not reoccur.
Monterey 12.4 upgrade causing intermittent freezing
