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Quick Look no longer works after the 13.3 update.

In Notes, I have a slew of gifs stored in different notes that I often view in with Quick Look, but this functionality is gone after the update. When I activate Quick Look from Notes, either with the menu command or the space bar, the wheel spins and spins and spins. My notes are stored in iCloud, but I have tried to use Quick Look with files on my local hard drive and I get the same response. Gifs animate as they normally do in Photos.

The same gifs in Notes (stored in iCloud) do animate with Quick Look on my iPhone 11 using 16.4.

I'm running a 2021 14" MacBook Pro (16 GB / M1 Pro with 10-core CPU and 16-core GPU), 13.3.

Has anyone had a similar experience? Does anyone have a solution to restore this lost functionality?

TIA,

Nathan

MacBook Pro (2021)

Posted on Mar 28, 2023 12:03 PM

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MindFad

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Posted on Mar 28, 2023 8:31 PM

Oh, thank goodness I’m not alone. This has been maddening all day.

I deal with GIFs and GIF-creation daily, so can confirm QuickLook is busted after 13.3 when playing GIFs (including Finder preview panes), and attempting to do so immediately breaks it.

Other image formats are fine, but as soon as you view a GIF (either via QuickLook or allow it to load into a Finder preview pane), after the GIF ends to begin its loop again, QuickLookUIService will hang (not responding) and the hang counter in Activity Monitor will start counting up indefinitely—breaking the functionality completely for all other images. The UI in the Finder will also start to choke and stutter.

I’m on a Mac Studio M1 Max.

I’ve tried all the suggested troubleshooting:

Resetting and nuking the QL generator caches via terminal.
Nuking preferences and .plists.

I even loaded into Safe Mode and the problem persists and is reproduced in exactly the same way, so it is not some software conflict. I’m pretty sure Apple just accidentally busted QL this release and no one caught it.

Hopefully it can get sorted out quickly, it’s very frustrating.

In the meantime, you can kill it via Activity Monitor—or more quickly, just ⌥-Right-Click the Finder icon and Relaunch Finder.

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Quick Look no longer works after the 13.3 update.

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