After upgrading to Sonoma I keep getting "Your system has run out of application memory" messages

Yes, that makes sense. The problem is that this behavior is the same for Photo a Safari apps with random usage scenarios (sometimes it crash on the same website, sometimes not). Mail app won't crash every time with the same usage scenario (if I do the same on Ventura there is nothing problem). Facetime app is crashing absolutely the same way.

Actually I see only Apple native apps makes this behavior, for example MS Office 2021 never run into this issues.

KR

Martin

Just saw this which is interesting. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7041357

Apparently IBM issues a warning about downloading Sonoma. I also saw a post from a university that announced that it isn't allowing the update to Sonoma as of right now because of issues.

Hi, I have the same problem. Since updating to Sonoma OS yesterday, my system constantly tells me to shut down programs, even though I'm just using Mail, Word, and Finder. My MacBook is from 2020. I've cleaned out all unnecessary junk from my computer, and there is actually enough RAM. Still, I can't work on Word longer than 20 minutes. I also noticed that my Dropbox got scrambled.

It would be great if you took the reports seriously and provided an update or help on this issue.

Thanks!

I just updated mine to Sonoma and didn't experience this issue prior.

Now, I can't even use MS Excel on my Mac. This pop-up message appears constantly.

My machine runs on 8GB of RAM, an air with M2 chip. This is really bothersome.

Dear chdsl from Apple Support,

Please take the reports of your customers seriously. I find it unbelievable of you to suggest a professional to use the mediocre native Numbers app from Apple instead of EXCEL.

Please fix your Sonoma software update such that we can use our hardware as usual.

BTW, I've updated to Somna 14.1 and still get the memory message. The issue might not be solved yet.

Wishing you best,

Lona

This is happened in chrome and activity monitor stated that addressbooksync was using 10gb of memory I quit this and it just came back. Many times. After restart. I even deleted all contacts, restored and deleted duplicates etc. Same.

I just started running into this issue yesterday (12/04/23), and I'm on macOS Sonoma 14.1.2

16 inch MBP

M1Pro

16GB Memory

Happened to me while running Firefox last night, streaming YouTube TV.

Happened to me today with Chrome, Safari, Mail, Podcasts, & Messages open while just web browsing. I regularly work in Premiere Pro + After Effects and I've run into this issue maybe twice in the past 3 years. There's no reason why this should be happening with basic apps open.

I'm using Safari 17.1.2

I have moved a lot off of my Photos app on to an external drive. I run out of space on my iCloud account, delete and back up what I don't want access to. But this has never happened in the past, so again, clearly an issue with the OS update and not the amount of photos or videos in the Photos app.

I upgraded to Sonoma this week and have found I cannot force quit from my dock (I like to be able to close chrome/safari and reopen with my tabs restored) and also apps like Illustrator, photoshop, even excel freeze up all the time!

Fix the bugs!!!

njthundrrd wrote:

I upgraded to Sonoma this week and have found I cannot force quit from my dock (I like to be able to close chrome/safari and reopen with my tabs restored) and also apps like Illustrator, photoshop, even excel freeze up all the time!

Fix the bugs!!!

What does force quit have to with keeping the tabs? Just quitting is enough - Command-Q.

Colnagofan wrote:

For me it was B. I couldn't figure out how I could have filled 32GB of RAM. Somehow I filled up a 1TB drive in a month on a new M3. Thanks!

Are you using Final Cut Pro or other video editing application, by any chance? Video files can take a lot of space.

The rule of thumb is you should leave at least 20% memory free and at least that amount of hard disk (SSD) free too.

The new OS is looking after your Mac better, so the notification.

I use the same sites in my work, there was nothing new after the update to Sonoma.

My ssd is 500 GB, and I have 300 GB free!

I sent feedback 4 times, no response from Apple