Steven Weinberg1 wrote:
My 2021 M1 16-inch MacBook Pro since installing Sonoma 14.3 is running irregularly slow. Suddenly it simply stops accepting input.
In the middle of composing an email, it will refuse to accept keystrokes in the "to" box.
In the middle of searching through the finder, it will freeze and cease following mouse or keyboard commands.
It just stops working - - - for a while. Maybe 3-5 minutes. And then recovers and is fine.
Feels like this may have begun after installing Sonoma 14.3.
Very frustrating.
Anyone else having this problem? Is there a workaround?
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
