Sidecar keeps freezing on iPad

Hi, celebrated too early.

Unfortunately, after some minutes of YouTube in freezes still. Anyway, it feels much more stable without AppleTV in the wifi network.

Updating TV to OS16.5 didn't improve the situation btw.

Just did this with a 13" M2 MBP and a M2 11" iPad Pro and now it seems to work correctly. Not sure what's going on within the OS to do this, but that's pretty wonky. I too ran into the 20 second freeze until I did the above.

I followed the steps described earlier about turning off things on the MBP then rebooting both the MBP and iPad Pro and so far, fingers crossed, it continues to work. I think the commenter said the biggest part was disable these features and then reboot both devices.

I already came to a conclusion that having too many Apple devices causes problems. How in this case AppleTV and mac and iPad are connected? I read that when you get rid of some devices, the others work better. That's funny.

So, turning off AppleTV is the solution, right? So what about automations, when AppleTV is the HomeHub? Or what about the situation, that you want to watch something? You need to plug AppleTV and wait until it boots to watch anything? Clever, seems like XXI's century solution :).

So does any of their suggestions work?

The power mode also doesn’t make a difference at all, once the freezing starts 3 days after iPad reboot, Sidecar will freeze just minutes after play some videos or putting the running stopwatch of the clock app on it, this is how I always test it, otherwise it will just last a bit longer.

This is pathetic on Apple’s part, as this thread is far too old for there to be no resolution. One of the primary reasons I bought the new 15” MacBook Air was to use the sidecar feature, but nope; Can’t use it because of this issue. I find this inexcusable and I’m tired of the unjustified good will Apple gets for making things “just work.” They don’t. I’m so mad.

Felt the need to create an account for the Apple forums to emphasize that this issue still occurs over a year later. MacBook Air 2019 and iPad Mini 6th Generation. No excuse for Apple to have not addressed this.

This is absolutely inexcusable. I've wasted too much time with sideCar.

Not a great precursor to connecting the $3500 Vision pro to the MacBooks, is it?

With mac sales down 30-40 percent, stuff like this matters!!

i don't give one rat's behind about any new features offered on macOS or ipad os until stuff like this is resolved. Period.

Start freezing 52 hours after rebooting iPad.

I would have changed the Sort By preference and have a closer look at the comments before posting.

calwong acknowledged himself later in the thread that it started freezing again about 2 days later.

There is no new update push recently and nothing has changed in these years despite all the updates.

By the way, disconnecting is not the same as freezing, when it freezes, it will not show any message about disconnection on both devices, the Mac just act as like it’s still connected.

Yes, looks like recent updates did the job. I've noticed that a pop up appears in sonoma stating that iPad wifi is off during sidecard connection. Still monitoring the situation but have to confirm it's rock solid stable after recent updates.

Any feedback?

I have brand new M2 macbook air running sonoma 14.4.1 and have massive freezing issues - never disconnects either cable or not but just freezes for between 3 and 10 seconds at a time. Sometimes freezes 5 times a minute

Dosen't anyone notice the full-size keyboard doesn't show up when trying to search in one of the files opened together using stage manager in the files app. The iPads in Apple Stores also exhibit this bug.

If you want to be productive and multitasking, this is a must.

They don't seem to care at all and are unable to deliver the advertised functionality.

Not for me, it didn't. Updated bothe the iPad and the macs... problem resides. After ~24Hrs I get SideCar freezes within 20s.

I was too optimistic... problem resides after ~24Hrs I get SideCar freezes within 20s...

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