Anyone else finding that Tahoe 26 freezes up every few minutes?

Tahoe freezes while using FireFox, quit Firefox everything OK.

Whatever. Meanwhile the rest of us are enjoying the stability and new features of Tahoe.

Not every few minutes, but a few times intermittently almost every day with my M1 iMac.

I'm sure you're right. 😎

stwskinn wrote:

Otherwise it is just too unstable for everyday use

Just to be perfectly clear, I have run every version of Tahoe daily on my Macs since June and it is perfectly stable.

I had exactly the same problem, and it got progressively worse until the Mac unusable. There was a kernel task running in the background that would frequently spike the CPU causing the glitches. The Mac is less than 3 months old, has 32gb ram and a 10

core CPU, but just running finder and nothing else was causing CPU spikes! After 4 calls to AppleCare, they grudgingly agreed that rolling it back to sequoia would be the best option (which was a bit of an arduous process). It seems to have returned to its former self now but I lost pretty much a full day of work sorting it.

I feel like Apple is trying to seriously upset it's users. After update to version 26 my Air M2 became very slow, impossible to use, even after restarts, the ghrome is becomming impossible to use, eventually everything freezzes and i have to hard restart it few time per week. Are they serious with such software?!

I see many people complaining about it. Fix it Apple!

I turned off Apple Intelligence and Spotlight. That helped. I particularly disliked being served up a distillation of any webpage I called up! As to the Mail hangs, I think it may be a cache issue. Every couple of days - and I’m not shilling here - I run CleanMyMac. Everything then runs smoothly for a while. But Tahoe really is a dog.

I had the same issue with my Mac Mini M2 Pro freezing and just being totally unusable. I contacted Apple Support several times with no resolution other than my device is new enough that it is supported for Tahoe OS26. I called them back today and demanded that they help me roll back my OS to Sequoia. At first they tried to tell me that I couldn’t roll it back. Thet told me it would reinstall OS 26. This was not true! When when through the steps it offered me to install Sequoia and that’s what I did. The blazing fast performance has been restored to my Mini and it is functional again. I recommend trying Tahoe only in virtualized environment until they release the stable RC. Otherwise it is just too unstable for everyday use

I have a Mac Mini 2023 M2 Pro 32 GB. Installed 26.0.1 a couple weeks ago, and had several hard freezes since. Also freezes when asleep - used to go weeks if not months between reboots, but not with 26! Also, the UI is very jerky, window movement random, and I’ve lost connection to the touchpad a few times. This Mini has run buttery smooth and fast since the day I got it, until 26.0.1. Guess it’s time to call Apple and back out to Sequoia. Rather, I suppose it’s a reinstall of Sequoia.

Does anyone have a pointer or link to the backout process? Or do I have to call Apple? TIA.

P.S. I’ll try some of the hacks/workarounds mentioned (thanks!), but I don’t have high hopes.

I just purchased a Mac mini (M4, 32 GB), updated to the latest version of Tahoe 26.2. I don't run any third-party apps; I primarily use Safari, Mail, and Pages. Constant freezing and beachballing, especially noticeable when a video is embedded on a webpage. (Just froze typing this reply). I thought of replying because many are blaming third-party apps; I don't have any (just froze up again), and I am having the same frustrating experience.

DreamerLV wrote:

I just purchased a Mac mini (M4, 32 GB), updated to the latest version of Tahoe 26.2…

I can't say I've had any version of Tahoe freeze on my Macs, including 26.2.

You may want to reinstall.

yes , similar experience , system freeze after a few minutes. internet recovery unable to install sequoia nor tahoe older version. anyone knows and share a clean , older version of tahoe to download?

I ended up wiping my drive clean and doing a complete re-install from the ground up. Haven't had any issues since. Not sure if it was a bug or 3rd party app or just ghosts in the machine. Probably the latter.

Problems on brand new MacBook Pro M4 and iPad Pro M3 13 inch. Really anoying!