Questions tagged [hang]
The problem when your computer/device as a whole OR an individual application becomes unresponsive, "hanging" as it were, in mid air.
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macos Big Sur Terminal hangs and no prompt appear
I have a strange issue on my MacBook Pro (Mid-2017 15" with touch bar; MacBookPro14,3; 11.0 Beta (20A4299v)).
I've just installed macOS Big Sur on an external drive and everything was alright for ...
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Can we expect most of the safari freezing issues resolved after the Big Sur update? [closed]
For the past couple of months, I have been dealing with a lot of issues with safari, most typically the constant freezing watching videos on youtube and on Netflix. For instance, when I consider ...
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Upgrading to Catalina from Mojave stuck at “Estimating time remaining” for days!
I was upgrading my 2015 Macbook Pro running Mojave to Catalina. It is stuck at a black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining" for several days now.
During that time, I ...
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iTunes 12.6.20 freezes and shows nothing constantly on Macbook
Hundred of people have the same issues and reported on the Apple forum, one example thread.
What I tried
Reinstall iTunes.
Set up Keychain Access
Create a new iTunes library
But none works.
Is ...
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iOS apps unresponsive after reboot
I have an iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 13.5.1, but this issue has happened since at least iOS 11 (with an iPhone X)
If I either turn off or reset the device, when it reboots, the first app or two that I ...
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Diagnosing macos locking up when external displayport monitor connected
Whenever I connect my MBP to an external monitor via a DisplayPort cable the OS pretty much locks up.
I have a new 2020 13" MBP running Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101). I'm trying to connect it to an ...
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Macbook Air on Catalina freezes upon waking when connected to VPN
My Macbook Air freezes for like 30 seconds up to a minute if I have my VPN active and try to wake it up while it is trying to connect to the vpn. Seems like as soon as the connection is established ...
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Computer freezes after update 2020-002 on High Sierra. How to revert / cancel update?
Since security update 2020-002, I'm having lots of trouble with a macbook pro early 2015 running high sierra
The computer freezes all the time
From what i read, this update causes problems when ...
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Finder hangs hard when accessing some files on NAS via SMB
I have a new Synology NAS that I'm accessing over SMB3 (AFP is completely disabled on the NAS). When accessing some files on the NAS, Finder, as well as any app that tries to show an Open/Save dialog ...
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Macbook Pro freezes after I enter my password
The mac starts up fine and goes to the login screen. After I enter my password the losing bar circles once then freezes, followed a few seconds later by the cursor changing from normal to the frozen-...
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Apps hanging constantly on Catalina
I have apps hanging constantly on catalina.
Right now TextEdit is hanged. I have tried to close a textfile that was being edited and boom, textedit is hanged.
Looking at Activity Monitor I see two ...
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How to fix latest text bomb on iPhone 8?
I sent the text bomb (Italian flag with a non-english characters on either side) to my girlfriend while she was on iOS 13.3. phone hung as expected. Was able to get control after a reboot and deleted ...
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Macbook pro wont update format or shut down and hangs everytime
I have mid-2015 MacBook Pro. My Mac first started to hang and a round mouse cursor with colours would appear. The only thing I could do is to force it to shut down and restart.
I tried to fix this ...
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MacOS UI Freezes and Hangs after 10.14.6 (18G4032) Security Update
I have updated my MacBook Air 2017 256GB model recently, the latest security patch 10.14.6 (18G4032).
I started to have random freezes. Sometimes, it goes back to normal after a few seconds. ...
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Persistent periodic hangs
I'm hoping someone can help with regular, persistent hangs that my 'cheese grater' 5,1 Mac Pro has suffered for several years, across major OS updates (10.12 > 10.13 > 10.14 etc.) and despite my ...
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smb mount cause Finder to freeze
I mounted a smb share of my NAS through Finder. After some time, I discovered that Finder is not showing new files. I then forced-quit Finder. Finder did not restart and instead hangs. Because this ...
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Application bounces and never launches and it is Catalina fault. How to make it launch?
Forgive me for this little rant.
Catalina is Apple's Windows Vista.
Said that, I have 10 to 20 little glitches, hangs and crashes with Catalina per day.
Beyond crashing every time I shutdown, one ...
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Macbook Pro semi-frozen
My mac is in a weird state without particular reason.
It is awake, but mouse clicks don't work, so I can't open any menus or apps.
If I shut the lid, it locks after a while, but not immediately. When ...
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System Preferences freezes when I go to “Security & Privacy”
I'm in the process of migrating from Mojave (on the internal HDD) to Catalina (on an external SSD).
Under Catalina, if I try to go to "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences, it hangs, and ...
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Keyboard freezes after pressing caps lock
After running for a day or two (not right after booting it), my laptop begins to display a strange behaviour: after pressing the caps lock my keyboard freezes which means that it does not respond to ...
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Security & Privacy preference always hangs when opening
Every time I try to open Security & Privacy preference it hangs indefinitely. Eventually I have to force it to quit. This is the top part of the latest crash report after forcing it to quit:
Date/...
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MacOS Catalina mouse/system hiccups when external monitor connected via Green Cell USB-C Hub
I saw past posts about this issue but it's still hitting me on the current MBP 2019.
I'm using external iiama black hawk external display monitor connected via Green-Cell USB hub
Whenever I connect ...
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(MBP 2010 13") EFI BOOT Frozen when Trying to Install Windows 10
Would like to get some assistance:
Device: Macbook Pro 2010 13"
Previously I was successfully install windows by manually create partition, format partition to hybrid GPT/MBR by following a guide. ...
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Weird anomaly on my MacBook Pro
Recently I've encountered a problem, and quite frankly, of course it had to be one of those cases where nothing absolutely helps.
It started around a couple weeks ago, the system was getting random ...
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My 2017 iMac has always been slow, why?
New iMac Specs:
Mid-2017 iMac
Retina 4K 21.5 inch
3.0GHz quad-core Intel i5 CPU
AMD Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB Memory
1TB Hard Drive
8GB RAM
macOS Catalina 10.15.2
It keeps hanging, lagging or ...
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Disk corruption found in Disk Utlity in Safe Mode, but no corruption found if booting into Recovery Mode. How do I fix it?
After installing a minor update to Mojave (did not try to update to Catalina yet), my iMac freezes during startup (progress bar stuck at about 90%). I can get to Safe Mode, where Disk Utility reports ...
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OSX Web Browsers Won't Load a Page
I have a 2013 27" iMac running 10.15.3 and for some recent over the past couple weeks if I leave my computer idle for several hours (usually 12+) when I get back to my desktop none of my web browsers ...
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Cannot kill process in Catalina 10.15.3 due to child dialog freezing
[MacOS Catalina 10.15.3]
How can I kill:
1. child windows of a process that seem to be preventing the parent process from terminating after using kill -9 ####? (At least this is what I think the ...
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Full screen video hangs on safari and chrome but not firefox
My Macbook pro retina Mid-2015 running Mojave 10.14.4 freezes in full screen mode for videos across any site I have tried. I have to go to Activity Monitor and End|Force either chrome or safari. ...
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What caused my system to hang overnight?
I returned to my computer in the morning, and the screen didn't turn on when I press any key. There was no response, but the computer was on (warm). The computer was locked but awake when I left it in ...
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Catalina login screen hangs after power related restart
When the battery runs out on my MBP, after plugging in and pressing the power button, I am greeted with the login screen. I type my password, then it hangs and the only thing I can do is hard switch ...
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Clipboard paste hangs application for 30s
I'm on MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 (Darwin 19.3.0). My Mac frequently gets into a state where every attempt to paste from the system clipboard freezes the application I'm pasting in to for about 30s, ...
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macOS hangs on logout when installing system updates
My 2018 13" MacBook Pro has been having problems installing system updates. I don't remember when it started, but it's definitely been happening since upgrading to Catalina, if not before. I'll get ...
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macOS Catalina beachball appears when I use TextEdit or Preview apps
I have a MacBook with macOS Catalina 10.15.3 installed.
I'm now noticing that whenever I open an image file with the Preview app, a beachball appears right about when I quit the app.
Also, a ...
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Wiped my keyboard with a damp cloth and now my macbook pro 2017 keyboard cannot type on the login screen
My macbook pro 2017 was working fine and I decided to wipe it with a damp cloth and now it wont work on the login screen. But I went to recovery mode terminal and all the keys work fine there. I must ...
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in macOS mojave apps freezes and beachball appears for some seconds when doing tasks like loading a conversation in Messages
macOS 10.14.6 on my MacBook Pro early 2015 13" with an i7 and 16GB Ram the active app freezes for some seconds when doing tasks in it, like loading conversation in Messages (happens not on every ...
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Calendar freezes when viewing event with videoconferencing
I use the Calendar app on iOS. My calendar is stored on Google, and I view it through the Calendar app. In Google, one can add videoconferencing to an event.
However, when I try to open an event ...
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MacBook Pro Mouse and Keyboard freeze after opening the Lid
So recently my MacBook Pro 2018 Touchbar (4 USB-C and Intel I5 Quadcore) has been having a really weird problem after waking up from Sleep. Every time I open the Lid and log in, the screen wakes up ...
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iPhone 6s nagged to update to 13.3, so I did but now I cannot use Whatsapp
Don't know where to start, did everything wrong.
My frustation the last 24 hours:
My iPhone 6s request me to update since a couple of months, so yesterday I thought let's do it. In summary:
did not ...
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Macbook freezes upon waking when connected to VPN
I have a 2019 15" MacBook Pro running OS X Mojave (10.14.6) (company laptop, so can't update yet) and I have a weird problem. When I am connected to the company VPN (via the built-in client, no third ...
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MacBook Pro 15" mid 2015 retina randomly freezing, trying to pinpoint the issue (not sleep related)
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Retina, Mid 2015, fresh install of latest Catalina) freezes randomly. It requires a hard shutdown (power button for > 5 secs) and then it takes a while to turn on. The MacBook ...
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Heavy issues with Finder make iMac unusable
My iMac 2017 (i7 4.2 Ghz, 40 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) ran very well for around two years. Unfortunately, not anymore: Lately, I have severe issues with the Finder and it ā honestly! ā drives me insane.
It ...
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Macbook pro freezing after clean install
My Macbook Pro (2015, Catalina) begun to freeze when I logged on to my main user account a couple of days ago. After the loading screen I approximately 2-5 seconds passed before everything froze, ...
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Catalina: Login Screen Freezes After Password Entry
iMac mid 2014 has been working fine for 5 years (well, sort of since I made the mistake of upgrading to Catalina).
As of today:
start the mac
select a user from login screen
enter password
A few ...
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VNC display of macOS Catalina frozen on login screen after reconnect
I have revived my Mac Mini 3,1 with Catalina thanks to dosdude1's patcher - and so far, it worked great! But, this is actually a Mac Mini Server (from 2009). So the obvious application is to deploy it ...
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Security & Privacy is not responding
I need to change enable camera for Google Chrome. So I go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy and it hangs.
Console log:
Dec 13 07:17:37 macabook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc....
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My Mac has recently been freezing several times a day and then eventually having to restart, unsure how to understand the error message or how to fix
My computer keeps restarting and I am unsure how to fix it, or if I will need to get a new Mac. I get this error report every time:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801fed1b92): initproc exited -- exit
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Unknown Binary in Application Samples
I recently started sampling applications that freeze on my machine. I have an iMac with 8 cores and 32GB of RAM running Catalina 10.15.1 fully patched. It's far from resource constrained yet certain ...
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Mail.app and accountsd are taking op all CPU Mac OS 10.15
I have suddenly (did not see when it is happening and when it is stopping) CPU peaks, which is coming from Mail.app and accountsd all together
i did a screenshot of the activity monitor as well as ...
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iPods crashing - Keynote freezing & glitching
The company I work for has started replacing approx 150+ old 4th gen iPods with brand new 6th Gen iPod touches.
All we use is Keynote + a HDMI adaptor (sometimes Apple TV) but every one of them ...
