MacBook Pro with macOS Sonoma crashes frequently and randomly.

Are you saying that your computer crashes with Ventura as well? What Mac model/processor/memory does it have?

My Mac Studio/M2 Max/32GB has recently started to mis-behave a couple of weeks after I wiped and reloaded it with Ventura. I've had to forcibly power it off and back on a couple of times.

I only bought it at the end of October 2023. My previous experience with Intel Macs has been exemplary but I'm beginning to regret buying this one.

I'm having this problem with my iMac, not my MacBook. It lasted a few days last time, then seemed to correct itself, now today, it's doing it again. So annoying and there isn't a fix for it. Enough to make me want to rethink my choice of computers with my next purchase. Anyone found a fix out there yet? I agree with the thought it's likely a Sonoma problem because I never had it until the Sonoma update was done. I can print from Calendar on anything but lists, and that's what I NEED. Come on, Apple, get your p__p in a grove!

Things got better on my 2019 MacAir with 14.2 and when I switched the screen saver to the Ventura one. I consciously did NOT load 14.2.1, but it auto loaded and now it's worse. Need to figure out how to stop auto updates from apple.

Mail also now often locks up and I did to quit and restart.

Argh.

i have no really words on Sonoma. It keeps crashing and crashing thousands of times at day on every app. This is on m2 pro, before the upgrade all running 100% fine. It's such a shame. I have really no words how shi**y this os is.

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

A clean install followed by migrating only the user accounts will easily restore sanity.

When you say "migrating only the user accounts", does that mean I only have to move this folder back from the external SSD?

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

This will get rid of all the old agents and daemons that may have been installed, perhaps a decade ago.

・After moving "the user accounts (not applications, settings, or other files)", if I restore the application from Time Machine, will the past settings be restored?

・Should I re-download the application from AppStore etc. instead of Time Machine?

LocaAlicia wrote:

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

This will get rid of all the old agents and daemons that may have been installed, perhaps a decade ago.

・After moving "the user accounts (not applications, settings, or other files)", if I restore the application from Time Machine, will the past settings be restored?

・Should I re-download the application from AppStore etc. instead of Time Machine?

I recommend downloading from the App Store.

LocaAlicia - please post how this goes for you, hopefully well! ✅🤞🏼

Unfortunately I still don't have a functional iCloud Drive after going thru these steps... 😐

(but the finder is not crashing anymore)

Mac mini, Sonoma Lock Screen doesn’t load and when it does load it works for 10 min. Then when the screensavers come on the computer refuses to wake properly it always crashes and makes me restart the computer.

13" Intel Mac Pro 2019. Since I updated Ventura to Sonoma, it reboots randomly. It normally happens when I leave the laptop on without using it. It gets more and more frequent.

These days if I close the laptop, it reboots. Occasionally it crashes while I am using.

Even in safe mode, it crashes. The diagnostic checks said 'no issues'.

I made several phone calls with the Mac support team. I did everything they suggested (e.g. resetting RAMs, deleting caches files, test a different user, reinstallation). No use. The recent Sonoma update couldn't solve this issue.

The apple support team recommended reinstallation, claiming that this is not an OS issue as it does not happen to all the Sonoma users. However, I am hesitating, as I have already done once.

If this does not happen to all Sonoma users and this is not a hardware issue, what could be the cause?

I am losing my faith to Apple's product.

In addition, my Touch Bar is flickering sometimes. If there is anyone who knows how to fix this, please let me know. I'm not sure if it is related to the crash issue mentioned above.

The same thing is happening to my Macbook Pro 2020 M1, I was a bit late in the game and upgraded last month (Jan 2024) without knowing this was going to happen. It crashes every day now, twice a day. I don't know what to do next and wish I didn't upgrade.

What do you mean by .3 ?

asking because while I don't really have daily crashes, new install of Sonoma on new m1max, I do have weird problems with terrain in uneralengine on this machine, thinking of resorting to what was installed on this studio machine to begin with Monterey,or Ventura, don't recall,,anyway...I hope moving backwards would fix my engine. problems, but before I do , I'd rather have an idea of the chance, it will.

cheers

Hi jagato00 , thanks for the posting.

my experience is very similar..although, I have experienced 'crash-on-wake' with my lid closed as well (with two external monitors connected, as well as disconnected).

I did the hardware test in Apple store and they said it was fine. More importantly, this crash was not happening until the last but one release of Venture. I remember this started on the last release of Venture..and I have been upgrading to each new release thinking it will make this go away, but not.

Currently I am on 14.2.1..waited eagerly for 14.3 but too wary to upgrade. I have the daily "crash on wake" issue for sure. Additionally, I get occassional freezing of macbook during usage..in the middle of the day.