macbook pro 13" 2018 random freeze

I have same issue too. I bought MBP2018 13" week ago and it been frozen 2 times.
Apps was opened: VSCode, Google Chrome, Slack, Skype, iTerm2, Finder, Sublime3.

Seems there are already a lot of people has same problem.
Apple support please keep eye on this issue, hope you'll find solution shortly.
Best Regards,
Pavel

This happened to me as well, the day after I had purchased the device. At the moment, I had Spotify, Slack, Google Chrome and iTunes open and I was browsing the web on Chrome.

MBP 13-in 2018 i7

16GB RAM

Same here! Got it a few weeks ago, did exactly the same 2 times. No peripherals attached, just like that, no error-code, nothing! Fix it! Does anyone know if it's legit to return it because of these things? I mean, the main reason for choosing mac was because not having to deal with sudden crashes like these...

Got a MBP 2018, 2.7 i7, 16GB ram for 4 weeks now and got exactly the same issue. In the past 2 weeks it froze at least once a day.

This is unacceptable for a machine that has cost me a lot of money. There is no heavy load at all and i just freezes out of nowhere.

I surely hope that this is a software issue and not hardware related. With al the current problems on this thread I expect that there will be a solution soon!

Doesn’t it seem strange to everyone here that with all of us reporting the same problems, we do not hear from anyone at a higher level at Apple.

i think they are totally ignoring us or are struggling to find a solution.... either choice is not good! BTW... I am also having a problem even signing into this list.... it is asking me for two party authentication even when I choose “trust this device”. According the Apple, on the same device, you should only be asked once.

Like most of us described, it’s a “random” occurrence so it’s going to be tough to replicate on demand. I’ve tried to close certain apps etc but it doesn’t seem to have any clear root cause.

Apple needs to hire some testers to find the problem. Failing to do so, they should at the very least replace all the affected MacBook Pro.

Having the same issue. Not sure if I should exchange the computer. So far the computer froze 3 times while doing minimal work (safari, one note, and preview running). I did not have any external devices plugged in.

do you mean they will come some time soon or that they are already published? because I cannot see them, I see only updates for Safari, which I don't use, so that will have no impact on the initial problem, I think

I agree that the more we write about whites happening may help the Apple techs that are working on the problem. but I am very disappointed that it is taking so long. i have spent hours on the phone with high level support and so far they have not helped and I still have problems. Now it seems to reboot every time I stop using for a f3ew hours.... doesn't matter whether I specifically put it to sleep or just leave it with cover open or closed. It happens during mail, safari surfing and lightroom. My Adobe CC is usually not running when it happens.

Today my friend sent me an article about MBP2018 freezing. I had hoped that this issue would never happen to me. But alas, it did. My machine is only 3 days old. All I did is sent a video from youtube to dashboard just to test it, because I found it interesting. And soon after that I got my first freeze. I really hope this is only a software issue. It would be really disappointing if it turned out that, my first MacBook that I bought, couldn't be fixed with a software update 😟. Godspeed Apple on your quest to find what causes this issue.

I purchased my MBP in August 2018 and experienced this for the first time yesterday. It would not respond to reset utilizing finger pad until after I had let it cool down for approx 30 mins. I did have it connected to an external monitor, but was only running Office 365 and Chrome.

I'm having the exact same problem on my 2018 13" Macbook Pro i5, 16Gb Ram, 512 Gb SSD. I will follow this topic, and I would like to ask Apple how to fix this problem. It's really awful for me since I have 4 times random freeze.

I have the same problem! Bought mine 3 weeks ago and it froze 4 times already. Not much load on my laptop. Only programs running are Spotify and Chrome. Sometimes just happens randomly while watching Netflix. Like just in the middle of an episode, 30 minutes in, didn't touch anything on my MacBook for 30 minutes.

New symptom: opened my lid while on battery, the screen flickers intermittently - i can move the mouse and click the reset button which fixes the issue. No error report this time.

So for me this makes it 3 types of errors:

- freezing completely; solved by hard shutdown

- opening lid to a grayish/blueish garbled screen where only the mouse can be moved, as a large square blob; solved by shutdown

- opening the lid to intermittent screen flickering; solved by reset.

This is getting better and better with my 3000 Euros machine 🙂

Funny thing is, my old 2013 MBA works better!

Same here. Received my MBP 2018 with TB, 256GB SSD, and 16 GB RAM a few days ago and today during a FaceTime audio conversation and sending an email at the same time the device crashed. Thats pretty disappointing for such an expensive piece of equipment.