Problems after Sonoma 14.6.1

Crowdstrike has fixed the issue.

Things should now start go going back to normal.

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CrowdStrike identified a performance issue with a cloud service that may cause degraded performance and boot times for some customer systems. This issue impacted customers in our EU-1 cloud. CrowdStrike Falcon customers are still protected. 

CrowdStrike has scaled the impacted cloud service. Sensor performance is stabilizing. CrowdStrike is continuing to monitor the situation.

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2024-08-22 13:35 UTC | Status update: This issue is now resolved.

Had similar Time Machine issues on MacBook Pro M1 14inch.

Slow progress on "assembling" backup and each attempt to backup stalled with the message: backup delayed, iCloud uploads ongoing etc.

No iCloud uploads were ongoing/active at each backup .

Read some solutions in the community messages and out of the offered solutions decided to reinstall Sonoma 14.6.1 from Recovery Start Up.

After finishing the recovery reinstall process Time machine back up is working again as before.

Startup in Safe Mode followed by a normal restart.

see > Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

Then check Software Update to see if there is a lingering Safari update.

I managed to restore the functionality of one MacBook.

Here are the steps I took:

• Booted into safe mode
• Disabled disk encryption
• Waited a few hours for the disk to decrypt
• Restarted, and it came back to life

Oh, Somona.

I have an iMac, intel processor, 3TB Fusion Drive, late 2019 (£4K). Upgraded to Somona at behest of Apple. Not great, very sticky especially when accessing portable drives, but just about working. Then update 14.6.1 loaded. Disaster. Locked me out of system. Then wouldn’t reboot. Went into Recovery mode. Disk utility said no hardware issues. Apple advised erase system and start again. So I did. Then it happened again. So I erased system again, tried to load Somona via but now all contact with internet now being blocked. Week on phone to Apple. Managed to get back online after another system wipe + NVRAM reset….then it happened again. So after 2 weeks into Apple Store. Health check. No hardware issues. No viruses etc. So iMac now requires a deep dive health check. Only now they said some damage has been caused to Fusion Drive overheating (!) It is suggested this has been caused by the new OS. So they offer to replace 3TB Fusion Drive, only it’s no longer made (Apple now insisting my computer is a ‘vintage model’, despite being bought in late 2019, and therefore no longer supported). But they sense they’ve caused this issue so do their best to resolve it. So I agree to the hard drive switch, as the alternative is an offer of a £250 buy back / exchange on a £4K iMac that was working just fine on Ventura, and then buying a new iMac. So now I’m 2TB down, and up and running again on Ventura, and nothing on Earth will get me near Somona again (I have seen posts that suggest Sonoma has major issues if you have an intel processor…no idea if that is true, but lived experience tells me Somona has been a very expensive disaster for me).

Apple have been very helpful throughout, but I realised what the OS team do is kept very distant from the team on the front line trying to fix these issues - which ultimately wrecked my Fusion Drive and nearly my iMac.

Do you have Crowdstrike Falcon installed?

If so, there's the problem.

Something has broken the system after the update. I haven't found any way of fixing the issue, just a workaround: I'm working in safe mode with some limitations (like not having the search tool working properly), but almost everything seems to be working (in safe mode, when doing a regular restart it gets back to the slow performance).

I had similar problems, hangs etc....finally with ableton i could not save work. In this stage i reinstalled 14.6 on a blank disk and restored the main apps manually. Then 14.6.1 worked without any problem. Now i downgraded the mac to 14.5.1 and restored all data not having problems, now i will wait for a 14.6.x update....

I got a new Macbook Pro M2 16gb (well refurbished). It's been 2-3 weeks. About a week ago it did one of those forced updates and now I'm on Sonoma 14.6.1. I don't know if I got a lemon or it's the OS or both, but definitely just using the laptop is slow at times and all I have open is Notes, outlook, 2 tabs in chrome and it'll stutter a bit with the loading cursor. It makes no sense.

Prior to this at a company I had the exact same spec Macbook Pro M2 16gb and I had so many apps open and it was never an issue.

Not only this but I'm having tons of issues with video editing on both Premiere Pro & Davinci Resolve. It's unusable. I have to reboot the software every 5-15 minutes, I can't work like this! Apple FIX THIS GODAMMIT, don't make an update worse. Those dang forced software updates ruined everything. Can't even roll back on software.

My video editing playback issues and frozen timeline, color scoping all happened after the update. I re-opened an entire project I edited on my new macbook prior to the update and just opened it up and it freezes after a few minutes due to all the issues. That wasn't there when I was editing.

I've already tried (no change)

• safe mode
• re-install OS
• erase entire computer & re-install OS (unfortunately was still 14.6.1) AND TIME MACHINE did NOT work. I even had the Apple person walk me though the formatting of my external HD for time machine. When I restarted it said migration assistant failed, I tried multiple times and eventually resigned and had to re-install all my apps manually and put all the files and folders back manually going through the Time Machine HD

and all of this having just gotten the computer like 3 weeks ago. Frustrating.

Apple support keeps saying ah it's software then. It's not. I also spent hours over a few days with Adobe staff. It's either my specific laptop or the OS, but seeing this thread, I'm leaning towards OS.

I have many projects I need to work on and most of my week was troubleshooting and rebooting my software so I can inch forward 1-2 minutes of editing only to reboot the software again.

macOS Sonoma 14.7 is an important security release if you do not want or cannot update to macOS Sequoia 15.0.

Same behaviour here, Macbook Pro 14 2023, Apple M2 Max w/ 32 GB. System at macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 with the update applied yesterday night.

OS takes ages to load and when it does, there is a gray background and everything is so slow, including the spinning wheel constantly and error windows every time. Opening a terminal just don't work (seems like loading the command line) and all others apps fail to open.

Tried to load in safe mode and everything seems to be working back (in safe mode), but when doing a regular restart, it fails again.

I don't usually post on technical issue forums as I'm not like, a power user or anything but a stereotypical consumer level research student. My Macbook Pro 13 2020 M1 w/ 8GB, just updated to Sonoma 14.6.1 and it's the worst.

My workflow tools are not working (Notion Calendar, Magnet) and my extremely reliable Brother HL1210W printer isn't connecting at all with USB or IP. It's literally ruined my week and this is the first time I've ever encountered unreliability from my Mac which is the reason I switched from PC in the first place.

I'm experiencing issues after updating to version 14.6.1. I use my 2021 M1 Max 16-inch MacBook for school, and since the update, Safari isn't functioning properly. For example, Safari normally behaves ok but isn't able to upload files to say google drive (just hangs). Multiple crashes also noted with safari if I have multiple windows.

Additionally, I use Tensorflow to train smaller deep learning models locally. Before the update, I was getting a speed over 6X when using GPU vs CPU but now it's dropped to less than 3x.

On a new 2023 Mac Studio M2 Max, Similar issues with video playback but in Premiere Pro. Video playback freezes (raw 4k mpg4) then recovers after 30 seconds, but happens over and over. After taking adobe back 3 updates the problem is diminished, and only happens once when a project is opened Similarly a strange issue in Cinema 4D viewport playback. In a dual monitor scenario, animation in viewport will stutter in realtime playback IF the main program window is less than an inch from the shared dual monitor border. Resize the main window to an inch (or width of desktop icon and text) and everything works fine. There is something wrong with 14.6.1.

Same here with my Macbook pro 2019

My battery life has gone from a day and a half to about 3 hours! The laptop runs very hot and neither Safari or Fire fox is loading properly.

It crashes at least 3 times a day.

Come on Apple, sort it out!