screen saver and hot corners not working after Monterey upgrade

Question

Level 1

4 points

screen saver and hot corners not working after Monterey upgrade

I just upgraded to Monterey and found that the new Quick Note hot corner is not working. I tried:

setting it up in System Preferences/Mission Control and /Desktop & ScreenSaver. Neither worked.
clearing out the hot corner settings, restarting my Mac, and re-setting hot corners. That did not work.
shutting down and unplugging my Mac, then restarting and re-setting hot corners. That did not work.

Also, before the upgrade I used the classic screensaver for my Mac and it worked fine. After the upgrade I have it set to the same but I'm only getting a black screen with the clock running.

Anyone know what's going on with the Monterey upgrade?

My computer: iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020)

Posted on Dec 10, 2021 9:15 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

Luis Sequeira1

Level 9

67,582 points

Dec 10, 2021 9:34 AM in response to JmeLizzy

Try restarting in Safe Mode, then restart normally again. Also, try resetting NVRAM.

If the issue persists, more likely than not it will related to some of the third party extensions or daemons, one or more of which may not work well with the new OS.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

Reply

Answer 2

lllaass

Level 10

210,459 points

Dec 10, 2021 9:40 AM in response to JmeLizzy

There is know problems with some screen savers in Monterey.

Screen saver broken in Monterey - Apple Community

When you select a some screensavers (and some wallpaper too) there is a cloud icon with down arrow. You have to first click on the icon to download the item before installing it.

Reply