Sequoia, background windows spontaneously close with a beep

Macbook pro 13" 2019, with sequoia. Randomly, all the unused windows kept in the background close, with a short beep. Only the active window I am working on remains open. This happen spontaneously, and I have not been able to identify a triggering action. Sometimes it happens twice or more in 5 min, sometimes nothing during several hours.

I have already exposed my problem, and one advice was to erase and rebuild the Mac. I have created a new system on a new partition (the DD is 1To wide, and I use only 300 Go) and copied only my data, and reinstalled the main apps (mainly MS Office and some other office application, nothing fancy...): Exactly the same problem on this brand new system. I have made a hardware check. Nothing abnormal detected.

Any idea?

MacBook Pro (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Apr 30, 2025 5:17 AM

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Posted on May 9, 2025 11:32 AM

I think I found the origin of my problem. It seems it comes from a bluetooth mouse I bought in China. This was the only one imiting the Apple magic mouse, with vertical and horizontal scrolling... Since I came back to a basic usb mouse, the problem disappeared...

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May 9, 2025 11:43 AM in response to Frenchy_René

Frenchy_René wrote:

I think I found the origin of my problem. It seems it comes from a bluetooth mouse I bought in China. This was the only one imiting the Apple magic mouse, with vertical and horizontal scrolling... Since I came back to a basic usb mouse, the problem disappeared...


Good computing Frenchy_René ! Appreciate the feedback for your resolve.

Apr 30, 2025 11:27 AM in response to Frenchy_René

Frenchy_René wrote:

Macbook pro 13" 2019, with sequoia. background close, with a short beep.

(the DD is 1To wide, and I use only 300 Go)

Exactly the same problem on this brand new system. I have made a hardware check. Nothing abnormal detected.
Any idea?


Never heard the issue before.



Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS




To trouble shoot further you can:


unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing


—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - 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 temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.


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Apr 30, 2025 1:45 PM in response to leroydouglas

Thank your for your answer.

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

On my new install I have none of these stuffs. And the problem started right away on the fresh install.


I started in safe mode, and I keep testing. So far it seems OK. But the problem is very weird as I could spend days long without any occurrence and just after twice or more in a raw.

At home I do have a bluetooth keyboard, but not in my office (I have a wired Apple keyboard). And the problem occurs in both locations. Anyway, I stopped the keyboard and the bluetooth mouse, and I will see.

If nothing happens during a couple of days, I will try (still in safe mode) to add some apps and peripherals once at a time, to see whether the problem re-appears.

I'll keep reporting the results of my tests.


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