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Sidecar keeps freezing on iPad

I am on macOS Monterey 12.4 (M1 MacBook Air) and I use Sidecar with my 2018 iPad Pro WiFi on iPadOS 15.5. Ever since Universal Control was introduced, Sidecar has been really unstable. After connecting to my iPad using my Mac, the sidecar display freezes within 20 seconds of use. The iPad does not freeze, it's only the sidecar app that freezes.

I have tried rebooting both my devices. Disconnecting and reconnecting my iPad and other such generic attempts to troubleshoot. This is apparently a big problem for a lot of users and Sidecar is simply unusable. Please fix this ASAP.

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.4

Posted on Jun 14, 2022 12:27 AM

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Hydral

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Posted on Jul 25, 2024 3:40 AM

I tried every single suggested solution. Nothing worked. I even reinstalled the Mac OS completely. No difference whatsoever.

Now I have had a full week of zero lockups. The solution for me was to change a setting on my ipad, not the Mac. I went into the ipad settings and disabled all App Activities in the background. It immediately fixed the problem. When i turn background activities back on the lockups come back after a very short time.

App Activities in the background are restricted for Apple products and scheduled a bit randomly, and this may explain why the lockups themselves are quite random and can sometimes stop for a few minutes and then come back with a vengeance.

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Z-fan

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Feb 13, 2024 7:28 AM in response to Z-fan

Start freezing 67 hours after restarting iPad.

Feb 25, 2024 1:50 AM in response to dariusz258

Restart iPad doesn’t help for a couple of days?

Z-fan

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Feb 25, 2024 2:05 AM in response to dariusz258

The easiest solution is just to buy a new MacBook or even a Vision Pro. They just want more money from us.

Feb 26, 2024 11:43 AM in response to NorthCliff

Just installed newest update on my iPad. Will monitor it right now and reply back.

Z-fan

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8 points

Jun 13, 2024 12:15 PM in response to kennyboy993

It doesn’t seem like the same problem as I hade before.

Now what’s still annoying is this bug in iPadOS.

https://youtu.be/t23wn5ml33M

Jul 18, 2024 6:44 PM in response to ShivamK

Here we are in 2024. Using 2021 IPad Pro and Mac Air M2. Sidecar works for a few days and then….blah. Completely useless. Come on Apple!

Z-fan

Level 1

8 points

Sep 25, 2024 3:02 PM in response to Z-fan

iOS 18.0 silently fixed this issue, what an attitude, how speechless.

3Lt2on

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Jul 4, 2023 4:26 AM in response to ShivamK

Hi, suffered myself from the same problem M1-MBP(Ventura 13.4.1) + iPad Gen8(16.5.1).

Just found my solution: for me it seemed to correlate to AppleTV4k Gen1 (A1842/15.6), connection always broke when my MBP reconnected or lost my AppleTV.

After I pulled the power AppleTV plug, the connection kept stable. Reconnecting AppleTVs power led to frozen sidecar again.

Updating to current AppleTV4K to current software version (16.5) seemed to have fixed the issue as well.

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