possible to for someone to create one that's flush? effen ridiculous Apple made it so shallow
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14" and 16" M1 Pro SD Card Slot Problems
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Small update, got my new 64GB Sandisk Extreme PRO SDXC II card with 300MB/s speed, and that is working fine in the SD card slot. Pops right up, can open it and look at photos, navigating via Lightroom is very fast and photos copy over very quick, no issues. So in my case at least it seems the issues are with cards over 64GB in size.
There are some made for the retina macbooks and other laptops, such as
BASEQI Aluminum microSD Adapter for MacBook Pro Retina 13" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012F38H9A/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_4RPN1WEGBXT2Y645QB93
You might try something like that.
No issue here either with the same card, same results as you. As was written earlier, this is probably a bug in macOS, and not a physical hardware issue.
Whatever the reason, the HDMI has probably been the most disappointing aspect so far on my 14", which means that future compatibility with many new display technologies that are coming up will be out of the window, and that port essentially will become useless and an eyesore within a short time.
It may become useless to you, but there are and will remain for some years many devices using the port as it is.
I tried a Transcend 512 GB and it was fine. I put in a Lexar 1 GB and it said that it couldn't read it but it's probably formatted NTFS (not sure what's on it so I didn't reformat it). I think that there's one other SD card in the house and I will try to find it but I don't see any problems so far.
Hi! I am having the same issue! I literally just bought the MBP 16'' and its super inconsistent when reading the SD cards from the slot. Sometimes it goes smoothly, sometimes it takes ages and sometimes it just straight up crashes; with finder and other apps just not working at all. Sometimes it gives me the 100060 error when trying to copy files into my desktop too. However, when I try it with my SD card reader, everything works perfectly! I tried with both a 16 and 64 GB sands cards, and both had the same issues. Idk if I should try to get it fixed or replaced or just keep it. Ig it depends on if its a software or hardware issue, any tips?
Yes especially so when my company’s projector is suddenly upgraded to 4K @ 120Hz. ?
I’m having the same problem on my 14” MBP…128gb SD card in the slot shows up on the computer but it’s so slow, there’s no preview for the photos and it was basically impossible to transfer the photos. Finder also crashed. The card worked perfectly with a dongle. Are people that are having this issue going to replace the machine? Or does it seem to be a common problem that just needs software update rather than a whole replacement?
did you replace your computer? Does the SD card slot work now with the new machine?
BASEQI - I already reached out to them, they're getting ready!
Speed: Slow. I've tried two 1TB cards, Sandisk and Lexar. Lexar I tried formatted out of box and got about 30MB/s either way. Formatted as APFS I get a great initial start then it falls and went to 0.1 on the Sandisk but the Lexar started at 200+ (which is obviously cacheing) and fell to a steady 30-40MB/s read/write using Black Magic Speed test (from App Store). Both cards perform a fair bit better in external USB3 adapter at 60-70MB/s.
BASEQI suggest that cards perform better in their adapters, can that happen?
It's not the slow that bothers me, it's the up/down/hang of it all.
Speed: Slow. I've tried two 1TB cards, Sandisk and Lexar. Lexar I tried formatted out of box and got about 30MB/s either way. Formatted as APFS I get a great initial start then it falls and went to 0.1 on the Sandisk but the Lexar started at 200+ (which is obviously cacheing) and fell to a steady 30-40MB/s read/write using Black Magic Speed test (from App Store). Both cards perform a fair bit better in external USB3 adapter at 60-70MB/s.
BASEQI suggest that cards perform better in their adapters, can that happen?
It's not the slow that bothers me, it's the up/down/hang of it all.
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Tried the Raspberry Pi Imager to flash PiOS onto a uSD card. When using the internal SD slot, the verify phase fails every time with a read error, on three new 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro uSD cards (using the uSD to SD adapter that came with the cards). When using an external USB card reader, it succeeds every time, on each card.
Trying to read one of uSD cards in the internal slot (disk4) results in a timeout. Reading it using an external reader (disk5) succeeds. I can only hope this is a driver problem (Monterey 12.0.1) instead of a hardware issue (14" M1 Pro, 10 CPU, 16 GB).
Another "fun" fact: my HomePod mini is not recognised when plugged into any of the two ports Thunderbolt/USB ports on the left side. It doesn't turn on and doesn't show under System Report. It does turn on and shows when plugged into the port on the right side. The left ports do recognise my iPad Air 4 and iPhone 12.
Trying to read one of uSD cards in the internal slot (disk4) results in a timeout. Reading it using an external reader (disk5) succeeds. I can only hope this is a driver problem (Monterey 12.0.1) instead of a hardware issue (14" M1 Pro, 10 CPU, 16 GB).
Code:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 of=/dev/null bs=4096
dd: /dev/disk4: Operation timed out
528748+0 records in
528748+0 records out
2165751808 bytes transferred in 346.147647 secs (6256728 bytes/sec)
$ sudo dd if=/dev/disk5 of=/dev/null bs=4096
7791744+0 records in
7791744+0 records out
31914983424 bytes transferred in 1145.467265 secs (27861978 bytes/sec)Another "fun" fact: my HomePod mini is not recognised when plugged into any of the two ports Thunderbolt/USB ports on the left side. It doesn't turn on and doesn't show under System Report. It does turn on and shows when plugged into the port on the right side. The left ports do recognise my iPad Air 4 and iPhone 12.
Yes, I am having the same issue. Tried many cards of various sizes (32GB to 256GB), brands (Sony, Sandisk, Samsung) and types (UHS-I, UHS-II, Micro-SD), and most hang or are extremely slow, especially on read. A few cards work flawlessly. There does not appear to any pattern of card type, brand or size, and reformatting or rebooting makes no difference.
All the cards work fine via a dongle to a USB-C port.
14" MBP M1 Pro
All the cards work fine via a dongle to a USB-C port.
14" MBP M1 Pro
Hardball, I did the calculations, that model is exactly the same 16mm depth +/- 0.2mm so I've ordered one and we'll see!
Bought two brand new microSD cards (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0735NNFLQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details) just to see if those would work and both work, but are certainly a little slow to be recognized (around 10s). At least they're not straight up throwing an error. (I didn't test transfer speeds as that's less of a concern for me than just not having to dig out a card reader)
It recognized both straight out of the package and after being formatted by my camera. FWIW both the new cards that seem 'fine' are the same type as one I already own that's been pretty flakey.
Not exactly a scientific test but another data point.
As insane as it sounds, I also tried cleaning the contacts on my older cards with some rubbing alcohol, thinking that maybe the macbook's card reader is just really finicky. Shockingly, did not appear to make any difference.
Here's where I'm at with all my cards...
Brand New 64GB SDXC (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Brand New 64GB SDXC (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Old SDHC 8GB (Class 6) Netac Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Works every time
Old SDXC 64GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Old SDXC 64GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) > Flakey (recognized about half the time?)
Old SDHC 32GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Never works, throws error (only works in external card reader)
Old SDHC 32GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Doesn’t even throw an error. Eventually becomes visible in Disk Utility with limited info, but not in finder (only works in external card reader)
It recognized both straight out of the package and after being formatted by my camera. FWIW both the new cards that seem 'fine' are the same type as one I already own that's been pretty flakey.
Not exactly a scientific test but another data point.
As insane as it sounds, I also tried cleaning the contacts on my older cards with some rubbing alcohol, thinking that maybe the macbook's card reader is just really finicky. Shockingly, did not appear to make any difference.
Here's where I'm at with all my cards...
Brand New 64GB SDXC (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Brand New 64GB SDXC (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Old SDHC 8GB (Class 6) Netac Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Works every time
Old SDXC 64GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted ExFAT > Works every time
Old SDXC 64GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) > Flakey (recognized about half the time?)
Old SDHC 32GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Never works, throws error (only works in external card reader)
Old SDHC 32GB (Class 10) Sandisk Formatted MS-DOS (FAT32) > Doesn’t even throw an error. Eventually becomes visible in Disk Utility with limited info, but not in finder (only works in external card reader)
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I think you should be concerned. I have tried about 10 cards, and all of them are recognized.
However, some transfer at full speed, some transfer slow or hang for long periods (like 5 minutes!), and some just throw up an error after transferring a few photos. I cannot figure out any pattern between SDHC, SDXC ,UHS-II, size, brand, age, format (I even tried formatting HFS+).
I suggest run the blackmagic disk speed test on them (Set the target drive, and use 1GB option). Quick, easy, and impartial.
On my 16" M1 Max, I've noticed the cards take a bit longer to show up on the desktop compared to my 2017 iMac. Not a huge deal but obviously not what I expected either. The cards I'm using (Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB SDXC UHS-I 170MB/s Class U3) otherwise work fine.