Has anyone else experienced MacOS Big Sur being really unstable? My MacBook Pro often freezes when shutting down and I have to hold down the power button to get it to power off. Also most apps freeze when quitting them and I have to Force Quit them. It's just unstable and doesn't seem that great. I'm running a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) with 16GB or RAM.
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To verify it's not a 3rd party software issue Apple had me do the following:
1 - make sure I had a full and current backup of my hard drive, either Time Machine or a full clone.
2 - Boot into the Recovery volume, erase the drive and reinstall the system without migrating any files from my backup. Run and see if the crashing continues. If it does it's hardware or the system. If it doesn't then the user files are the culprit.
You might try the above to verify that it's no any of your files or 3rd party apps that the culprit.
That’s just it, you claim the OS was brought to a complete halt, but that was very likely not the case, instead various user applications stopped responding.
No, you asserted that this happened without knowing any details...
Applications are non functional. You can open apps, but you can't close them. Can't force quit them either. Have to hard boot the machine to get back to normal. MacOS was never this unstable before.
We shouldn't have to correct Apple's poor implementation with third party 'fixes' - which don't work anyway.
I still have yet to have a single failure with Big Sur - obviously that's of little comfort for those who have, but far more have had zero issues.
Not when you talk with users regularly; believe me they make their issues known, and the number with Big Sur issues not related to third party software is lower than I've seen with past OS releases.
So rather than try to diagnose it, you just live with it?
Then run it without full disk access. It won't give us the diagnostics of crashes and freezes that will be helpful but will give us the other info.
Go to the developer's site and contact the developer as he suggested in his post. I'm sure he can allay your fears. It's the best diagnostic tool I've encountered for helping others here.
That’s great.
Personally my Macs running Big Sur are more stable than they were on Mojave or Catalina, so do what works for you.
This is a 2020 M1 Macbook Air I'm talking about. Sorry, I'll hop off the discussion since I don't really have a question. Just super, super frustrated.
I certainly get that, but being a Mac user since 1988, I have to say your issue aside, Big Sur has been the most reliable version of macOS I've ever used.
and I have to say all previous macOS have been very reliable for me since 1995... but BigSur has instantly changed my ability to work efficiently.
Can we focus on the problems of those that have posted here? Distracting with endorsements adds nothing.
MacOS Big Sur Unstable
