I've been seeing Remote Desktop crash very often when switching between screens on a remote connection. Also, when viewing both of a clients screens together the windows do not refresh as the client computer's user moves the mouse, windows, etc. I use this every day for production work and to assist co-workers remotely. It's slowly becoming unusable. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Also, any affordable alternatives are also appreciated.
I have to reply to my own post. Turn out it works for 1 or 2 days then it comes back to not responding.
I also tried removing ARD files manually following this page:
Uninstall Remote Desktop administrator software – Apple Support (UK)
The effect is the same still. Works for 2 days then not responding.
I think it is connected with 14.4.1 system as i have my mbp m3 with 14.4.0 and ARD works ithout any issues.
Wonder if 14.5 is gonna make it better.
Apple is not here, this is a user-to-user forum and as such we are all users like yourself. If you want direct support from Apple itself then I suggest you click the Support link at the top of this page.
However, based on my experience of ARD over the years, I would try and eliminate as much as possible by doing the following:
Back up anything important you may have and start off with a format and clean install of macOS with nothing else added. No additional apps or software, utility programs, drivers or anything else 3rd party. Now install ARD and test it. If it works as it should then start adding everything else you normally install one by one. Test after each installation. Continue in this way until you have everything you normally use installed. Eventually you should catch the culprit causing the crash. If it doesn't crash after doing all of the above then it was probably some corrupted legacy kext, driver or preference file that may have caused the problem that only a "nuke and pave" would uncover and fix. In which case doing the suggested work has paid off. I wouldn't rule out potential hardware problem either so if you have access to another Mac, install ARD on that device and see if the same problem happens.
Good luck.
I have managed to fix it !
My ARD client was not responding after going from ventura to sonoma 14.4.1.
I tried all of options in System settings - no avail.
The fix is simple. Enable root user in directory utility as usual. Log out of your current user, log in as root, run ARD.
It oppened normally and worked, could control other macs on the network.
Then log out from root and log in as standard user.
Ard opens and works !
After upgrading Sonoma to 14.5 ARD has been working for the whole day without problems. I had 1 instance when I closed the app and it went to no responding but after closing it and starting again it was fine. So it seems to be fine.
I've included the crash report. Not sure if it helps but this issue persists and is really frustrating. Can an apple engineer please put down you vision pro for a few minutes and fix this.
In my case those are only problems with starting the client, once it is up everything works.
it does not crash during operation or connections. Just wanted to make it clear.
Remote Desktop 3.9.7 crashing on Sonoma
