High Sierra freeze

It is crazy, given that macOS upgrades and updates are supposed to improve, not hinder performance. Just curious, what kind of Mac do you use exactly, desktop or laptop?

Laptop : MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Is Anyone with the problems trying the developer beta of Mojave?

I am hopping that my macbook is working again with the update...

Has anyone updated to 10.13.6 and found any improvement to the freezing/shutdown issue?

10.13.6 didn’t help on my early 2014 Mac mini. This is pathetic.

And I am currently sitting in Bootcamp Win10 right now in order to be productive - I admittedly had to do some updates (Checkpoint VPN issues with 1703 Win build) but the system hasn't frozen on me at all

I really wish I could get may Mac Pro back at this point. Whilst it's OK during the day which is better than many are experiencing here, I can't leave it alone for more than a few minutes without it freezing up.

Time for a fix.

Hi

This approach is bit hard to reproduce as the freezes are random, for me most likely after it went to sleep or in random moments. SafeBoot or guest account are not so easy to work for day to day use.

I think it's clear that it's bug in the Apple newest OS as the popularity of this thread is growing.

Petr

Same problem here. Macbook Pro Crashes 5-7 times a day after upgrading to High Sierra using photoshop on an external screen (4K)

Only the mouse works and music keeps on playing and the fan is making a lot of noise.

Just spent €250 on a cleaning and checkup and now after a clean install the problem is still there...
I'm a little fed up with it, 'cause nobody at apple is fixing this bug, that's been around for a few weeks now. Impossible!
If it's not fixed by the end of this week I'm buying a Dell after 20 years of mac... I'm really angry this happens

The only really working solution is to downgrade to Sierra. That is the only way to make the freezes go away 100%

Only if Apple did provide the installer for Sierra but ever since the release of High Sierra the installer is gone from appstore.

Hi Alex,

Did you get any update on this? This is exactly what is happening, graphics are freezing and everything else is working. Weird enough it is only happening on my MacBook Pro and not affecting the iMac. At least for now. It has been impossible to work with the freeze.

Thanks,
Thiago

dreamzonebe wrote:

Maybe because your new MBP (or what's inside) is more compatible with the new update than our old(er) MBP's.

not really

mine was crashing several times a day just like the rest of you. all the same triggers. I'm an audio/video professional so I went on a mission to get rid of the issue asap.

I fixed the High Sierra ARD bug yesterday as well. Some of these problems are just bad residual parameters that need to get purged

It started right after installing HS on my late 2013 I Mac. All seems well now after help from Apple support and a full reinstall. If you speak to AS you may need to ask for help from a supervisor as the foot soldiers dont seem to have the experience. I have been freeze free for a week now. Fingers crossed. The problems of the Mac Book users seems worse but it doeas all seem video driver related. Chrome started my problems. Good luck.

Ps Apple can and will help

After trying to resolve the problem with help of a local expert who is of the opinion that the answer lies in the logs and may be graphics related I asked Apple for help and with Filipa from Portugal (a supervisor) we checked out what was happening via activity monitor and finally settled on a full HS reinstall and a guided migration of files from my back up. This latter is critical to avoid reinfection. Ask them, it costs nothing. If they argue give them my case number which I can give you if necsarry

Lancero

Multiple people reformatted their Mac but didn't solve the problem...

Can you explain more about the performance of the 10.13.1 in connection with driving an external monitor? Any issues when connecting and disconnecting the monitor form the Mac?