Printers Vanishing from System Settings after macOS Sequoia

I use a Mac Mini M2 at work and recently updated to Sequoia. I have 5 network connected printers. 2 HP LaserJets and 3 Epson Inkjet printers. All the printers have been disappearing from System Settings after a nights sleep of the Mac after Sequoia. I have reset the printing system, started in Safe Mode and even reinstalled the drivers for the Epson printers. The HP printers are using the generic postscript drivers supplied by Apple. I have no idea what to do to solve this issue. Anyone have a suggestion on next steps? All printers work as expected after they have been added back.

Adding the printers back each morning is starting to get pretty old.

Thanks,

Ben

Mac mini (M2, 2023)

Posted on Oct 1, 2025 6:54 PM

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HWTech

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Posted on Oct 1, 2025 7:49 PM

My organization has seen this after the macOS 14.8 & 14.8.1, and macOS 15.7 & 15.7.1. We've discovered that it occurs at midnight every day. Currently our next step is to tell people to completely shutdown their Macs each day until Apple resolves this issue. We have not tested this yet since we were hoping the 14.8.1 & 15.7.1 updates would have fixed it.

I highly recommend you contact Apple to make them aware of the issue. If people don't report issues to Apple then Apple doesn't know how widespread the problem is, nor will they have enough details from user's systems to understand the issue.

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GS-JCA

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Nov 12, 2025 8:54 AM in response to Steven M. Tiggemann

To what “setting” are you referring?

Printers Vanishing from System Settings after macOS Sequoia