Slow Keychain on 2016 Macbook Pro with Touch Bar

So - someone posted in here 3 days ago that they installed macOS High Sierra 10.13 Beta 2 (17A291j) - and that resolved the issue.

They since deleted their comment - for some weird reason???

I'm here to confirm that I've installed macOS 10.13 Beta (17A291m) - and after rebooting - now not only does it hang when you load a Safari window, IT FREEZES ALL OF SAFARI UP.

The only solution is a force quit of Safari.

The disgust I have for Apple right now knows no bounds. I'm making an AppleStore appointment now and will not leave the store until I get this piece of crap returned.

I got my comments deleted by Apple and got informed with this message: "We removed your post “Slow Keychain on 2016 Macbook Pro with Touch Bar" because it contained information about beta software."

Havn't tried the Keychain App but Safari works great for me now.

That's still something. I mean, I don't know about other people but I only ever open the keychain app every 2 months to recover the occasional password for use in an app or device that can't connect to it, it's in Safari that it is being used the most and where it is causing lag daily.

I'd advise you to restore it to a stable OS version before going to the Apple Store, otherwise they will rightfully tell you they don't offer support for beta versions. This problem is real and I have it myself too (apparently 12.6 fixes it in Safari at least), but Apple won't help you if you are on a beta OS (again, rightfully so).

just in case anyone is wondering: NO, the just released 10.12.6 release does not change anything regarding this problem.

And bug 28343236 ist still open on burgreport.apple.com. I'm going crazy. I'm not using Safari anymore, that solves part of the problem, however I can not do anything about the keychain app that I frequently use. It is dead slow. So slow that I run into timeout while typing because for each letter I type I get a 4sec beach ball...

pesatmichal, did you submit a bug report? This is the only way to tell Apple that there is a problem:

1) Got to https://bugreport.apple.com/

2) Open a new bug

3) Explain the problem. Make sure you mention that this happens on a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar when iCloud Keychain is enabled and that prior to migrating to the new MBP you did not have the problem.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Don't upgrade to the Public Beta 4 just released yesterday. I'm so ticked off at Apple right now I can't even. Public Beta 3 was FINALLY starting to work better with no lag in Safari. My computer auto-updated (just lovely) to the Public Beta 4 last night and we're STRAIGHT BACK IN ****. Worst performance ever...jamming up on every page.

Can't express how disgusted I am right now..... ******************

No acknowledgement...no reply.

At this point, I assume their (really crappy) strategy is to ignore the issue, release macOS High Sierra - then say "huh? what problem? No idea what you're talking about...did you upgrade to our latest OS yet? maybe that's the issue?"

So I have this same issue on my 15" MBP 2016 with Touch Bar (i7). I just bought a 13" (slower i5) with NO touch bar and I have no issues. Keychain is lightening fast (with the same set of entries from iCloud). It ***** Apple hasn't acknowledged this or come out with a fix. I hate the Touch Bar anyway. 😝

In Safari 11 it is better, but the root problem is not solved. It seems Safari just caches all passwords from the keychain. Security wise this is certainly not a good idea but user experience wise it probably solves the problem for most. The password manager in Chrome still seems to be much quicker though.

When you open Keychain directly you will see that it is still ridiculously slow. In addition, the bug in apples bug database is still open and not resolved.

Keychain is unusable to me and I used to use it a lot. I had many encrypted notes in there with information I wanted to store safely. As apple did not solve this with a year a had to move to another password manager.

Dear All,

but is this something that affects ALL Touchbars MacBook or only an unfortunate few? Because the solution i'm afraid is to return the thing and swap it with a new one, anyone tried this?

Thanks.

I have been experiencing this since getting the Mac. I updated to High Sierra which for some reason failed. I decided to completely wipe and have a clean install (via Internet Recovery) and all of these problems have gone away. Accessing keychain is now instant in Safari and in Keychain.

Might be a co-incidence but now mine is fully working.

Interesting. Just to confirm: you did restore the keychain from iCloud, it's not that your keychain is now a fresh one that is almost empty. In my experience the number of entries in the chain is directly correlated to the time it takes to look up something.

For me, update the High Sierra did not change anything in keychain. E.g. when I search for "apple" in the keychain it takes more than 6 seconds and the UI is blocked. In Safari things got better with Safari 11, but still a lot worse than how things are in Chrome.

Is my existing keychain, I have 269 Items on the iCloud Keychain and I don't have the energy to recreate. I setup going through the setup wizard as a new Mac (no transfer of data) and let it fully sync my iCloud account (everything enabled).

Im not sure if its the preinstalled Sierra thats causing the bug? I didn't do a clean install at all and was forced to when the High Sierra went wrong (told that it cannot be installed and needed to be recovered - so to avoid having further issues I wiped everything).