My MacBook Pro 16" says no internet after connecting to WiFI after Sequoia update

I am now connected! I had thrown ESET in the trash and disabled ESET filters. I didn't know how to delete the ESET filters, so I had Apple Support call. ESET was in trash, so she had me empty trash. From System-Network-Filters, she instructed me to highlight an ESET filter and use the minus key "-" to delete the filter and then do same for the second ESET filter. Yay! Thank you everyone!

even though i had removed all ESET apps and programs i had to manually remove the Filters under Settings\Network\Filters because they still contained to ESET entries (as i mentioned earlier). After removing them manually i got my internet access back!

Please look at your anti virus software installation. If it has ESET go to network settings and under filters delete the entries , only then, your machine will connect to internet. By disabling it will not.

I had similar issue and Apple Care set up appointment and luckily after seeing the entries in the forum i could resolve the matter successfully

All the best

Hi everyone,

I have MacBook Pro 14“ and I am experiencing this problem with the Internet connection (while being connected to WiFi) after having upgraded to macOS Sequoia on Tuesday (17.09.)!

I am so angry because I had the same problem with the internet connection regularly even before the upgrade, but at least I could use the HotSpot of my phone to connect to the internet; However, after the upgrade not even hotspot is of help!

This makes me so mad because I have had high expectations when I switched to Mac (from Windows) less than 2 years ago! I have thought until now that since my Mac is still pretty new, it cannot have such a major problem! Surely the problem lies with the internet service provider….hopelessly I was searching the internet for some clues and just so landed on this page. I am happy to read that I am not alone in this and that there is a potential solution.

I have NordVPN and ESET. After the upgrade I immediately received the message that ESET does not support this macOS so I have to install a newer version. I wanted to install the new version, but of course, not possible without the internet connection.

I just randomly switched off my NordVPN and suddenly got my access back to the internet (via both Hotspot and WLAN) when using Google Chrome (even though I didn’t have this problem with the VPN before!!!). HOWEVER, Safari is still not working!

So I am not sure whether I should uninstall ESET and NordVPN, or downgrade to the previous OS or to just wait for a new version/update of macOS which could fix all these issues!

I don’t wish to get rid of the VPN and ESET because I fill less safe knowing that Mac can also be sooo faulty :/ sigh…

Launch a browser and enter this easy to remember all-numeric IP address:

1.1.1.1 

in the address bar,  and press return.

If you get the CloudFlare** splash page, your internet is working, but DNS lookup may not be working.

**CloudFlare is NOT part of the solution, they just own the easiest to remember all-numeric IP Address.

First you have to delete ESET and please go to filters and delete the entries and once you get onto the internet, which most certainly you will get connected, you can decide further course of action with ESET anti virus or change it to malware bytes which lot more friendlier to MAC O/S es and i guess provides similar protection

I agree you should delete the ESET filters. That was the only way I was able to connect to internet on MAC, even though I was able to connect to internet on my virtual machine running Windows. If it works, you can then try re-installing ESET.

<< are there still network issues happening? >>

there were never Network issues happening.

Some users unwisely installed ESET anti-virus, and in addition to intolerable scanning of files for no benefit whatsoever, it also added "filters" that interfered with proper operation of macOS Networking.

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners, Bit Torrent, or a VPN that you installed yourself. 

if you have any of those Installed, they will increasing make you miserable. That is NOT a defect in MacOS, its an error in choosing who you Trust.

"Everything you need for proper, safe operation of MacOS was shipped in the box, except ONE item-- that is an external drive on which to store your backup copies. A Very good Utility to make that Backup, Time Machine, is already built in."

My problem was in LittleSnitch, firewall app, so yeah, thank you guys and have a good say

That worked for me, too! I had already deleted the eset app but disabling then deleting the eset entries in Settings/Network/Filters restored my network connection. Thanks!

Same here, asked chatgpt, all wrong suggestions. Then i saw this network filter thing.

Disabled Little snitch, done! Old versions doesn't work anyway on sequoia

I had the same issue, all apps stated no access to the internet and couldn't browse to anything in Safari. However I could run commands in terminal like ping and DNS lookup's which all worked fine.

Ended up just restoring my Mac to Sonoma and I'm back online.

Thanks! for all the inputs, finally i had to get into ESTS filters and delete the entries by disabling it didn't work for me. I was struggling for the last 24 hours and cursed myself for updating the OS. Apple customer support frankly were not aware of this issue ad we went in circles, including setting up an appointment with Genius Bar

what status shows in

settings/prefs > Network > Wi-Fi ??