MacBook Pro with macOS Sonoma crashes frequently and randomly.

I experienced the same issue as you with the Monitor through the CalDigit hub but that was on Ventura. Same fix as you, run the monitor from the computer and not the hub. I think that's an existing bug with the hub and not the cause of all the issues all these people are having on Sonoma.

Sorry, I've had weird things happen, but no crashes. (2019 iMac Sonomo 14.1)

My biggest concern is why is bird ALWAYS running close to 100%.

For a company that says they're carbon neutral, I'm amazed they created an OS that runs the cpu hotter after an upgrade. They may have their own wind-farm in Oregon or Washington; I don't.

I have had severe crashes since the upgrade. It only seems to happen when I am not looking, so probably when the Mac is in sleep mode. Also, there seems to be an issue with external disks unmounting randomly.

I've been having the same issue since updating to Sonoma. My mac crashes in sleep mode. When I start my mac up a pop up message is displayed saying I shut down my mac because of a problem. I have issues with my touch bar as it seems to flash during start up and sometimes doesn't turn on. Now I'm having problems trying to open Activity Monitor as it seems to be crashing. Apple you guys need to address this problem.

Jesus wept. I have upgraded to 14.2 and it is worse, the computer seemed to have settled down (a little) but now hard drives are constantly disconnecting. Not sure if the computer is actually crashing but time will tell.

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I posted something 5 mins ago but god knows where it went. Anyway, the 14.2 seems to be even worse than what was previous, hard drives quitting and just had 2 crashes.

This is an effect of the recent changes in the forum. By default, replies are order by "Best" - which completely wrecks the thread. You can change it to sort by "Oldest" to restore chronological order. It can be done each time, but it can also be changed in your profile preferences, so if you are logged in to the forum, it will always sort chronologically.

I just noticed that they still haven't fixed transparency in desktop Widgets after switching between spaces. Total amateur hour from Apple. They need to make sure their current features work correctly before they release new ones.

I have a 2019 MacPro with multiple SSDs connected internally for extra storage. It all performed flawlessly with previous OS renditions, but after installing Sonoma it has crashed regularly just as described by many others in this thread. Sonoma was updated again yesterday to 14.2 and has crashed once since then. Are things looking up or is it a false dawn?

It just gets worse and worse!! Ok, all the hard drives disconnect and there are crashes but now a new one is Mail not responding !?!??!

Apple you bunch of dip sheeets try to make **** better not worse! Are we to now dread updates?

2023 MacBook Pro 14" M2 Max - No change on Sonoma 14.2.1...

As soon as you turn on iCloud syncing and try and open a new window the finder crashes along with system settings.

I'm having to use my old 2015 MacBook Pro running Monterey 12.7.2., at least it works...

HEY APPLE - NEW STUFF IS USELESS UNLESS IT WORKS !!

Please sort it out, loosing patience on this one.

Jesus more upgrades more problems... now after waking from sleep (and the usual issue of hard drives disconnecting and Time Machine no longer working) the mail app will not respond, so I have to restart it; aren't updates meant to fix stuff?

That would explain a lot of the why I don’t see any issues and what I have been asking for on many similar threads. I can’t file bug reports if I don’t know how to make it crash.

I have no need to make icons larger as I don’t use them. I open everything through Spotlight or list view sorted by Date Added.

I’ve never had a problem with Screen Sharing, though it is always viewing the M1 from MBP.

I don’t have any issues with the Applications folder, but if you mean via screen sharing, I don’t have a need to do that so would not have noticed.

I’ve always assumed SMB access is slow. I don’t know what fast would look like.

There is another post where the OP has very good documentation on slow external drive access, and is worse for APFS HDD. I don’t remember if HFS+ is affected at all.

Finder has always had a problem with large number of files and deeply nested folders. It really isn’t a suitable file browser for those situations; never has been. If it is worse in Sonoma, maybe they tried to fix that.

All I want is for Apple to acknowledge that Sonoma didn't work out and fit it asap with a new OS that works like Ventura did. Unfortunately a class action will only enrich the lawyers and probably not fix the problem.

Yes you’re right of course. But they have to take responsibility for releasing a corrupted and/or faulty update. As we’ve read Apple don’t acknowledge this at all - AppleCare deny it and try and blame apps. Genius bars (if they are available - in my location not) can’t fix it. So, in my case, I had to pay an outside contractor to do it even though my MacBook Air still under AppleCare. Apple are never going to admit a downgrade to a previous update is the fix! Therein lies the responsibility. Futile though it may be.