Does MacOS Sonoma runs fine on your Mac or is it buggy?

[MBAir2010]

How do I change my vote from "It runs fine on My Mac" into 'It's buggy"?

Don’t worry, No one reads votes anymore,
i forgot how i voted , prob pro sonoma.

but will go back to Monterey on the M1 mba, Sonoma is not fluid and has annoyances.
too many sluggish experiences with airplay, external drives not reading,
then ejecting, music stopping and i cant type on pages
if that auto word sentence completion goes into effect, i write!

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I experimented a few weeks with Sonoma on an external SSD but I decided to stay with Ventura for now. The more I used Sonoma, the more bugs I discovered. I am not ready yet for Sonoma.

 

[fisherking]

sonoma is running great on my M2 macs. the only issue i have so far is, one external drive mounts without requesting it's (needed) password. but all my apps work, and my OS experience is fine (including universal control between both macs). running the 14.1 beta currently...

 

[MBAir2010]

sonoma is running great on my M2 macs. the only issue i have so far is, one external drive mounts without requesting it's (needed) password. but all my apps work, and my OS experience is fine (including universal control between both macs). running the 14.1 beta currently...

I was wondering if Sonoma is designed and works better on an M2 chip than an m1.
is there a way to test this? or gather some stats or tests but I don't think so.

 

[fisherking]

I was wondering if Sonoma is designed and works better on an M2 chip than an m1.
is there a way to test this? or gather some stats or tests but I don't think so.

i don't think chip speed (M2 over M1) will be 'better'; maybe just faster. not a pronounced difference, as, say, between an intel mac and a silicon mac.

 

[MrScratchHook]

Sonoma fine for me, check my macs in the signature, but i found this nasty bug, when i use the calculator and add two numbers it reads "not a number" i cant work like this, im going back to mojave!!!!

 

[Steve Ballmer]

Sonoma fine for me, check my macs in the signature, but i found this nasty bug, when i use the calculator and add two numbers it reads "not a number" i cant work like this, im going back to mojave!!!!

So it’s not fine for you, then.

 

[fisherking]

Sonoma fine for me, check my macs in the signature, but i found this nasty bug, when i use the calculator and add two numbers it reads "not a number" i cant work like this, im going back to mojave!!!!

ha... what? calculator works fine here. call apple? you're going to go back in time to an older OS just because you have an issue? it's not a common problem. or start a thread here, and get it resolved....

 

[MrScratchHook]

i could care less about calculator..i downloaded a new one from the mac store..🤣 all is well..

 

[thebart]

Finder seems to be turning off the toolbar randomly and I have to turn on show toolbar again and again

Also Sonoma broke my python install

Neither a huge deal. I use my own wallpapers so there's no difference between Sonoma and Ventura as far as I'm concerned. Haven't seen any differences in performance or memory usage

 

[WebHead]

Sonoma now won't go to sleep. These are the sleep preventers - any clues? (Disregard Chrome as I'm downloading files)

 

[Steve Ballmer]

i could care less about calculator..i downloaded a new one from the mac store..🤣 all is well..

You were going to downgrade. Seems like you cared a lot.

 

[Lynxpoint]

So far I am having only one issue, which seems to crop up once per day. At first I thought it had to do with the machine going to sleep, but it seems to also do it when awake, but not in use. The windowserver crashes or becomes unresponsive twice (according to the crash report), and it is connected to watchdogd having some kind of issue. The machine shuts down becuase of this, so needs to be rebooted to return to where I was.

 

[fanboy-ish]

It runs fine on my 2020 i5 Air, there's a noticeable performance degradation, though.

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

I installed the Sonoma 14.1 RC on my external Acasis thunderbolt enclosure with Samsung 980 Pro and the slow boot issue is not solved. Al lot of spinning beachballs too when opening applications. No problem under Ventura or Monterey.

 

[mac_hack_attack]

M2 Max with 32G Ram so plenty of power. Worst Mac OS experience in a while.

Random Safari hangs and slow downs.
Change in Bluetooth target intermittently locks up Podcasts.
3-4 times the whole OS interface has locked up for 3-5 sec.

The iOSification of MacOS is not taking things in a good direction.

 

[fisherking]

M2 Max with 32G Ram so plenty of power. Worst Mac OS experience in a while.

Random Safari hangs and slow downs.
Change in Bluetooth target intermittently locks up Podcasts.
3-4 times the whole OS interface has locked up for 3-5 sec.

The iOSification of MacOS is not taking things in a good direction.

those things don't happen here, so perhaps worth getting help with these issues, as they don't reflect the OS in general.

 

[mac_hack_attack]

"those things don't happen here, so perhaps worth getting help with these issues, as they don't reflect the OS in general."

This translates to "I don't have these problems must be all you. Certainly couldn't have anything to do with Apple's software that we all know is just fine."

Never mind that the survey shows better than 1/3 of people think Sonoma is buggy.

 

[Ethosik]

Overall it's decent. The gaming mode is a nice improvement. I do notice its a little bit slower to start up than normal and I had the occasional lockups one of which I had to hard turn off my system as it would never complete the restart action.

 

[Monotremata]

"those things don't happen here, so perhaps worth getting help with these issues, as they don't reflect the OS in general."

This translates to "I don't have these problems must be all you. Certainly couldn't have anything to do with Apple's software that we all know is just fine."

Never mind that the survey shows better than 1/3 of people think Sonoma is buggy.

There is still a reason it IS happening to you and it's worth tracking it down. I use Safari all day long (on the weekends a 12 hour session is pretty normal for me), my mouse, keyboard, AirPods are all bluetooth, and not a single issue with BT or Safari here either. 5-6 hours yesterday working on a remix in Cubase 12 Pro of all things, couldn't be happier with Sonoma's performance so far.

(Disclaimer, I'm also updated to 14.1 since it fixed some graphics issues in Cubase's plugins)

 

[fisherking]

"those things don't happen here, so perhaps worth getting help with these issues, as they don't reflect the OS in general."

This translates to "I don't have these problems must be all you. Certainly couldn't have anything to do with Apple's software that we all know is just fine."

Never mind that the survey shows better than 1/3 of people think Sonoma is buggy.

no need to translate! am only reporting my own experiences, and pointing out (factually) that these things are not commonly reported.

that survey is a very-small group of macrumors forum people, not at all representative of the world at large. either way, 2/3rds of forum users are fine on sonoma, 2/3rds being (also fact) more that 1/3rd...

 

[ceribria]

My M1 Air seems to be fine, but my work 16" M1 Max has had a few intermittent problems:

- Waking from sleep after a couple of hours will crash the WindowServer and all my apps will restart. Performance is degraded until I reboot
- Random Safari hangs
- Bluetooth random disconnects
- Wallpaper panel in the System Preferences is completely blank

Sure some first releases have had a few bugs that are ironed out pretty quick. I've been using macOS since 10.4 and this is the first time that I've actually had these new release bugs block my work. I'm probably going to wipe the drive clean and start fresh.

 

[Bazza1]

Buggy.
Still occasionally has problems finding external drives upon a reboot (never an issue with, well, any previous OS using same drives and hub); a couple of occasions where the Mini has spontaneously crashed and stops sending signal to monitor. Requires a forced shutdown and restart. Again, not a problem with previous OS (well, once I discovered that the Mini's HDMI is 'problematic' to begin with, and monitor moved to USB-C).

 

[MrScratchHook]

You were going to downgrade. Seems like you cared a lot.

I was being a wise a## about it, trust me, im happy with sonoma even with 2 flaws currently.

 

[Jack Neill]

I found 14.x quite snappier overall from Ventura. I had a bug with the wallpaper crashing but 14.1 appears to have resolved it. I haven't tried it on anything Intel yet since all my intel are unsupported. I am thinking about OCLP for my 15" 2017 but it's running 12.8 perfectly and I'll probably leave it alone