Anyone else finding that Tahoe 26 freezes up every few minutes?

I installed Tahoe 26 last night on my 2024 MacBook Pro (M3). Are other people finding that it just freezes up every few minutes? I don't have any "interesting" apps installed (other than MS Word they are all Apple Apps). But every 10-15 minutes, everything just freezes up: I can move the mouse but not click on anything. It stays that way for 2-5 minutes, then resumes normal operation. It happens whether I am running software or just navigating in the finder. So right now, I'm trying to figure out if this is a "me problem" or an "I upgraded too soon" mistake.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 22, 2025 10:56 AM

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Amand1n3

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Posted on Oct 26, 2025 3:29 AM

This "System Settings — Spotlight — Search Privacy — add your hard drive. Come out of settings, close it, restart, back into settings and remove hard drive. This forces indexing to stop and restart." fixed it for me.

Thanks a lot!

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Dec 16, 2025 3:24 PM in response to dhp317

One thing I learned is that Dropbox needs to be updated, and you have to do that manually. I quit it when I'm not using it, rather than leaving it open all the time.

Anyone else finding that Tahoe 26 freezes up every few minutes?