Bugs and Problems on the 2021 MBP 14" M1 Pro processor?!

[GoztepeEge]

Hello everyone. I am using a 2021 base-model MBP 14" M1 Pro processored for the last 7 months. MacOS Monterey 12.4 (21F79).
Actually I am satisfied overall, however there are some major issues that have been annoying me so much.

Check these two things out:
1) When I connect my iPad via the Sidecar to my MBP, it starts acting extremely weird. In some arbitrary time, the SideCar connection goes away, sometimes even freezes.
- When I then try to disconnect the iPad by using the button on the MBP desktop at the right upper corner, worse thing happens.
- The computer starts freezing, I can not open or close apps, Wifi connection goes away, I even can not close the Wifi so it does not respond, I am not able to open the settings.
- It is like the device is operating, but nothing responds correct.
- When I try to restart the MacOS, even the shutdown or restart button does not work. Rotating wheel exists, and the device pushes hard to restart itself. This takes almost 3 minutes. Then it is even not restarting after the screen closes, I have to press and hold the power button to hard-shut-down, then press it again to start the computer again.


2) When I leave the MBP in sleep, especially at nights, I see it restarted after I open the screen.
- It normally asks my fingerprint after the wakeup, but when this issue happens, it always asks me for my password.
- After MacOS opens, it shows me an error window "The computer has been restarted because of a problem".


I have never experienced these problems with my old Intel processored MBP.
Does anyone have any idea why these Silicon processors that much buggy?
I have been waiting for a software update to resolve these issues, but nothing happens. What action do you advise me to take?

 

[Stefdar]

The M1 pro processor is not buggy. What is probably buggy is the software you have installed that causes the restarts... You need to identify what that software is and uninstall it.

 

[jav6454]

The M1 line has been stable thus far. Delete all programs that have been installed, and reinstall one at a time testing stability. Once stability is lost, you'll know your culprit.

 

[lcubed]

or you could check your crash log ...

 

[Arctic Moose]

I have never experienced these problems with my old Intel processored MBP.
Does anyone have any idea why these Silicon processors that much buggy?

My 14” has been rock-solid.

Whenever I’ve had issues like those you’ve described, on both PowerPC and Intel Macs, it has always been a hardware issue. Usually it’s a faulty logic board or faulty RAM.

 

[rmgbenschop]

So you ran into two minor issues and you are calling these M1 Pro MacBooks buggy??

Like Stefdar is replying, check your buggy software. Easiest option is a clean install of MacOS but I can imagine that is not what you want.

 

[Realityck]

Hello everyone. I am using a 2021 base-model MBP 14" M1 Pro processored for the last 7 months. MacOS Monterey 12.4 (21F79).
Actually I am satisfied overall, however there are some major issues that have been annoying me so much.

Check these two things out:
1) When I connect my iPad via the Sidecar to my MBP, it starts acting extremely weird. In some arbitrary time, the SideCar connection goes away, sometimes even freezes.
- When I then try to disconnect the iPad by using the button on the MBP desktop at the right upper corner, worse thing happens.
- The computer starts freezing, I can not open or close apps, Wifi connection goes away, I even can not close the Wifi so it does not respond, I am not able to open the settings.
- It is like the device is operating, but nothing responds correct.
- When I try to restart the MacOS, even the shutdown or restart button does not work. Rotating wheel exists, and the device pushes hard to restart itself. This takes almost 3 minutes. Then it is even not restarting after the screen closes, I have to press and hold the power button to hard-shut-down, then press it again to start the computer again.


2) When I leave the MBP in sleep, especially at nights, I see it restarted after I open the screen.
- It normally asks my fingerprint after the wakeup, but when this issue happens, it always asks me for my password.
- After MacOS opens, it shows me an error window "The computer has been restarted because of a problem".


I have never experienced these problems with my old Intel processored MBP.
Does anyone have any idea why these Silicon processors that much buggy?
I have been waiting for a software update to resolve these issues, but nothing happens. What action do you advise me to take?

For starters you don’t put your MBP to sleep at night, do a shut down, you have no idea if some 3rd party software running is using too memory as time goes on. A 14” MBP boot to logon is very fast comparatively. As people have commented, you need to baseline the laptop to determine what is the cause. You can start by boot into safe mode and see if the issues disappear. You certainly might want to back up the MBP to an external drive so that if you need the MBP factory reset by a store employee doing a DFU restore it can be done.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

To help determine whether an issue is caused by software that loads as your Mac starts up, you can start up your Mac in safe mode.

support.apple.com

 

[GoztepeEge]

I guess after I opened this thread, Apple heard me loud, and published a new MacOS version.
Now I am using the Monterey 12.5 which I upgraded a few days ago, and since that day, I am having no problem even I put my device in sleep.

I have not tested the Sidecar yet, but anyway, the crash-in-sleep issue was more harsh for me. It seems it has been resolved, at least I hope it to be.

By the way: I am not the only one who got into those problems. There are lots of threads regarding the kernel panic and restart during MBP sleeping, and the Sidecar issue is also being experienced by lots of users.
Maybe we need to consider these as real.