Screen sharing broken in Sonoma

I’m running 14.4.1 on a M1 Mac Studio and Screen Sharing now works. I believe it was fixed in 14.4. I rely on Screen Sharing every day and I’m very happy it’s back.

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The biggest problem is trying to connect to a remote Mac over the internet. The Sonoma Mac requesting permission to connect to a Mac running an older version of Mac OS fails the connection immediately after the remote client accepts the request.

Mine was broken on both Macs. I use it to share screens with clients. I put in a ticket with Apple. 2 weeks later they had me install a Profile from the engineering team that fixed it. I have removed the Profile and it is still fixed.

My guess is that was the fix that is coming out tomorrow in 14.1.

Me Too!

I have a 2020 Intel MacBook AIr and an M1 Mac Mini.

When I screen share from the MacBook to the Mini, it will connect but the mouse cursor eventually disappears and you can't do anything except quit screen sharing.

They when you try to connect again, it has a connection failure.

The only way to get a connection again is to toggle screen sharing on and off on the Mac Mini.

I am on Sonoma 14.1

Screen sharing is also not working on my 2023 MacBook Pro 14" Apple M2 Max, running MacOS 14.1.1 (23B81)

I am trying to screen share to a Sanyo 65" Roku TV.

My Roku TV just shows a black screen, while my MacBook re-adjusts itself for mirroring the display or using the Roku TV as a separate external display.

Screen sharing worked on my older 2020 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. And it worked on my Windows PC.

Updated MBP M1 16" and Mac mini M1 to Sonoma 14.2 and Screen Sharing is now partially working. Connection can be made, yet remote Mac mini stops responding intermittently from MBP, requiring restart of Mac mini.

What is even more puzzling about this ongoing issue is that RealVNC has been working flawlessly from remote MBP and iPhone app. Maybe Apple needs to be in touch with them to learn how to make Screen Sharing work like RealVNC?

VNC into a brand new iMac M3 with Sonoma 14.2.1 works for 10 to 30 seconds and then the iMac disconnects, the Screen Sharing feature crashes and I can no longer connect to the iMac remotely until I physically go sit in front of the iMac, turn off Screen Sharing, then turn it back on. It's ridiculous. It's impossible to do any serious work with an iMac M3.

I recently updated to Sonoma 14.3. Screen Sharing is not functioning properly. It will connect to a client for a few seconds, then it will quickly disconnect. The connection lasts for 10 seconds to a minute at best. If I connect to a client with multiple displays, the mouse only works on Display 1.

I was using Screen Sharing daily to connect to remote clients around the world. I hope Apple is aware and will fix for 14.3.1.

I found this post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/17exzyl/comment/k6j6khb/

Same thing happened to me

had to format my MacBook pro

im testing stuff out

I went in to the mac store and was told to restore everything manually

14.1 fixed it, 14.2 reintroduced it :-( What developers do they have? All the time changing?

I regularly connect using Screen Sharing, from my mac at home to the mac at my workplace, and it is working smoothly with Sonoma: I just connect to my office network using VPN, and then use screen sharing to control the Mac Studio at work from my home MBP.

I have not tried doing this from Messages, though, as it would requiring someone on the other side to test, and all the potential participants have older macs, so no Sonoma on their side at least.

Although Screen Sharing works on my local network about 70% of the time the mouse gets sticky. By sticky I mean a click on something in the remote window doesn’t register until I move the mouse, same thing for menus. I have to close the remote window & log back in to eliminate the sticky mouse problem but the sticky mouse problem returns if I leave the remote window open for a few minutes.

Although I'm able to connect to my Mac Mini M1 running Sonoma, the user switching is flaky and it will get stuck in a screensaver mode on occasion which requires a reboot to resolve (though the screen saver issue predates Sonoma).

Is anyone experiencing a problem with mirror image after updating to Sonoma?

When I connect to a second screen, my MacBook screen gets messed up, try to get it resolve with apple support but no solution. I hope that apple makes corrections to this new system.