M1 issues: post them all here!

[CMMChris]

Same like quitting explorer.exe in Windows

 

[darngooddesign]

Same like quitting explorer.exe in Windows

So what happens when you do that?

 

[CMMChris]

You are left with the wallpaper.

 

[rossifossi]

Lucky you! What tasks are you using your mini for and also, what apps? I've had nothing but problems and Adobe CS was a disaster full of bugs. I'm currently boxing it up now.

Same problem here.... I can live with it though

 

[rossifossi]

I've been another one of the unfortunate. Beachballs all day, cannot wake from sleep, weird pixelation on sign-in screen, 3-4 crashes a while using for a few hours Adobe CS bugs in Illustrator and InDesign. Took the chance, it didn't work, and back in the box it goes. Will either keep my 2020 iMac or purchase the Intel model with expanded RAM. I don't know. Good luck to those that have had success. I have high hopes for future gen.

 

[1240766]

Lucky you! What tasks are you using your mini for and also, what apps? I've had nothing but problems and Adobe CS was a disaster full of bugs. I'm currently boxing it up now.

I don't have a Mini, I have the MPB M1.

I run the following apps daily, throughout the day, without any issues whatsoever:

• Citrix
• Zoom
• VS Code
• Archi
• DBeaver
• NodeJS
• Git
• Brew
• Java
• Postman
• MS Office - Word, PPT, Excel
• Pandora
• GarageBand (not daily)
• a few other apps too...but these are the main ones

I run the following connected hardware, also without any issues:

• Dell U3818DW (also use the monitor to charge my Mac)
• Dell monitor speakers via bluetooth
• AirPods 2
• Magic Mouse 2

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[petterihiisila]

I had an external monitor. Put the MacBook Air M1 to sleep, after a while, disconnected external monitor for another window laptop use. The next day, lift the laptop lid to login: screen flickered, my Chrome screen size is completely off-sided (can see the right side of Chrome screen), missing Dock and therefore cannot start a new application.
Reported to Apple Support and were told if repeated, may have to reinstall a fresh OS.
Rebooted the MacBook Air M1, the problem went away.
Tried to repeat the same situation, the situation did not re-appear again. This is already my second Macbook Air M1. Return to store for a replacement after the initial unit had hardware issue; could not reboot at all.

Suggestions? Should I get the MacBook Pro version?

Macbook Pro would not make any difference. From the "core computer hardware" perspective they are the same. A thicker case, a fan, a Touch Bar, those won't get rid of software issues, and indeed what you describe sounds like a software issue. Or a good old bug, which 11.2 might fix.

Is it a simple or a complex setup? Have you got something old or esoteric installed? Something low level or radical, like kernel drivers or UI modifications? I suppose not, but software/drivers that haven't been updated for Big Sur could cause issues just like that.

If you want to get the bottom of it, take a Time Machine backup, then wipe the Mac, start with a vanilla setup and add the software you must have, anything that's known to be Big Sur compatible. Use it for a few days. Chances are, there are no issues. And if so, you can be all the more certain it's a software issue.

After that, add the rest of the setup one by one, while making backups to roll back to last known good setup. You can use your Time Machine backup to bring stuff back one by one.

I know that's not fun, but I also doubt you can hardware-switch your way around this. Once you know what's installed vs. what you really need, and how additional installations change the behavior, you'll know what to avoid.

I've got an M1 Air connected to 3 displays and more than a dozen peripherals. 11.1 has been pretty stable. Some bluetooth hiccups, that's pretty much it.

Activity Monitor, Console (with filtering), ps -xa, System Information > Extensions, places like those are good candidates to see what's happening and what might be going wrong.

All that said: what you describe could be serious buggy behavior or something really simple. You do know that CMD-Space starts Spotlight from which you can run apps to see if they're able to start; Option-Command-d shows/hides the Dock etc? You know how to use Terminal, find processes that may be stuck, kill them, manage preference files etc?

Because if not, what you describe could also be that the dock is hidden and you need to keep the mouse at the bottom of the screen to un-hide it. And the Chrome window is misaligned, because half of it is still in the phantom external monitor. Both of those aren't bugs, they can also be side effects of having multiple monitors and how the preference checkboxes are set up.

Answers to the above might help someone to narrow it down a bit. Switching to a vanilla setup would probably help you. Switching to a new Mac and then migrating everything would probably just replicate what you're seeing, bringing the bug with it.

 

[imdog]

Updated to the 11.2 Beta and no improvement. This thing is the worst Apple product I've ever used. Literally dropping bluetooth connections every 30 seconds, half the time there's a weird ripple in the screen where everything along the centre line is shifted, 75% of the time it goes to like 720p resolution on an LG 5k ultrafine display.The thing is next to impossible to wake from sleep. Random beeping noises. Cursor spazzes randomly or stops working entirely. Garbage.

 

[Diskutant]

What actually happens when you quit the finder?

Well, what happens when you quit an application? The Finder is what you use to browse the filesystem. It's what shows the files and folders on the desktop.
Nothing bad happens, try it, you can always just start it again from the Dock.

 

[darngooddesign]

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[thadoggfather]

I'm experiencing transcendent battery life on my MBA, still on 11.0.1. Anyone else? My issue is this has ruined and devalued all other laptops for me that can't hold a candle to this...

 

[djlythium]

Updated to the 11.2 Beta and no improvement. This thing is the worst Apple product I've ever used. Literally dropping bluetooth connections every 30 seconds, half the time there's a weird ripple in the screen where everything along the centre line is shifted, 75% of the time it goes to like 720p resolution on an LG 5k ultrafine display.The thing is next to impossible to wake from sleep. Random beeping noises. Cursor spazzes randomly or stops working entirely. Garbage.

That sounds like a major lemon. Return it for another one?

 

[djlythium]

Macbook Pro would not make any difference. From the "core computer hardware" perspective they are the same. A thicker case, a fan, a Touch Bar, those won't get rid of software issues, and indeed what you describe sounds like a software issue. Or a good old bug, which 11.2 might fix.

Is it a simple or a complex setup? Have you got something old or esoteric installed? Something low level or radical, like kernel drivers or UI modifications? I suppose not, but software/drivers that haven't been updated for Big Sur could cause issues just like that.

If you want to get the bottom of it, take a Time Machine backup, then wipe the Mac, start with a vanilla setup and add the software you must have, anything that's known to be Big Sur compatible. Use it for a few days. Chances are, there are no issues. And if so, you can be all the more certain it's a software issue.

After that, add the rest of the setup one by one, while making backups to roll back to last known good setup. You can use your Time Machine backup to bring stuff back one by one.

I know that's not fun, but I also doubt you can hardware-switch your way around this. Once you know what's installed vs. what you really need, and how additional installations change the behavior, you'll know what to avoid.

I've got an M1 Air connected to 3 displays and more than a dozen peripherals. 11.1 has been pretty stable. Some bluetooth hiccups, that's pretty much it.

Activity Monitor, Console (with filtering), ps -xa, System Information > Extensions, places like those are good candidates to see what's happening and what might be going wrong.

All that said: what you describe could be serious buggy behavior or something really simple. You do know that CMD-Space starts Spotlight from which you can run apps to see if they're able to start; Option-Command-d shows/hides the Dock etc? You know how to use Terminal, find processes that may be stuck, kill them, manage preference files etc?

Because if not, what you describe could also be that the dock is hidden and you need to keep the mouse at the bottom of the screen to un-hide it. And the Chrome window is misaligned, because half of it is still in the phantom external monitor. Both of those aren't bugs, they can also be side effects of having multiple monitors and how the preference checkboxes are set up.

Answers to the above might help someone to narrow it down a bit. Switching to a vanilla setup would probably help you. Switching to a new Mac and then migrating everything would probably just replicate what you're seeing, bringing the bug with it.

Word. Always start with a fresh OS.

...always.

 

[zitek]

Thanks for posting. This looks fairly similar to the vertical lines I had. Interesting to know it happens on a modern, presumably perfect-functioning display.

My M1 display glitch has been one of the trickier computer problems I’ve ever debugged!

I think this -might- have something to do with display image sharpening (or at least the signal processing in the display) clashing with the output from the Mac. I changed the setting of the sharpening on the monitor and it obviously had a certain effect, because alternating between two values - for instance 20% and 30% would produce the lines or not. However I didn't find a value that would completely get rid of this...

 

[aednichols]

I think this -might- have something to do with display image sharpening (or at least the signal processing in the display) clashing with the output from the Mac. I changed the setting of the sharpening on the monitor and it obviously had a certain effect, because alternating between two values - for instance 20% and 30% would produce the lines or not. However I didn't find a value that would completely get rid of this...

Fascinating.

I upgraded my '13 monitor to a '20 and I can't reproduce it no matter what I do.

 

[ivoneug]

do anyone's displays have ghosting on their MBP M1? I seem to have it, especially in dark mode when scrolling, or transitioning between apps View attachment 1698102

Yeah, have the same issue on my MBP. Actually, ghosting is pretty bad comparing to my old MPB early 15. Do you have any thoughts is it normal or not?

 

[phl92]

Since I almost never use Google hangout, the issue could be somewhere else:
today a client wanted to use Google Hangouts. I was already all day in Zoom, Skype meetings and my MBA M1 with AirPods Pro worked well!
I joined the Google Hangout invitation, and the client saw me, but couldn't hear. He said there was sometimes the feeling I was very far away, but most of the time I was silent. we tried it three times, I checked in Safari Preferences -> Website and allowed everything for Hangouts... also in Hangout settings I allowed the Mic and checked settings. No idea why my Mic seems muted in Google Hangouts.... someone else?

 

[gank41]

Looks like the Feedback Assistant still works at the following URL or Finder Location:

applefeedback://

/System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Feedback Assistant.App

I've been trying to file Feedback for all of my issues this morning. Filed one for my Widgets going missing after a reboot. Filed another for Finder. It seems to only hang for me when I've got drives with spinning platters in 'em. I've tested with a bunch of USB Thumb Drives (Flash) and a 2TB OWC Enclosure Drive from my old MBP (Flash).. They work totally fast/normal. This all thru a powered 10 Port Aukey USB 3.1 dock connected thru an Apple USB Type A to USB-C Adapter. Those are my main issues.. But it still seems like it's "not remembering" things like settings and stuff? Hard to explain. Finder and App Windows placement remains as it should, but I'm having to set my Audio output at login or after a reboot, and other oddities that will be very difficult to explain via the Feedback app. Still, though, any issues I'm having seem to be software related. I'm close to just erasing and reinstalling again. But, I'm worried about how stable that process is this early on. Gonna wait it out. Once I get everything set back up again, and as long as Finder works normally, this is the fastest/best computer I've ever used in my life.

 

[Jakwob]

How are people's battery lives when using an external display with USB-HDMI or USB-C to HDMI cable? Mine almost halves.

 

[gank41]

How are people's battery lives when using an external display with USB-HDMI or USB-C to HDMI cable? Mine almost halves.

So far so good. I’m connected thru a Belkin Dock to an external display via HDMI. Although the Dock should be charging the MBP, it’s been staying charged to just 88%, which is what it was at when I used it on the go last. The last time this happened I had to connect directly to power to get it back to 100%, but then it stays fully charged until next time.

 

[yuser]

My M1 MBP crashes since my new LG38WN95C-W display is here. I have a more than 10 years old Dell 27-inch screen which worked perfectly.
With the new LG display attached (directly or connected to a CalDigit TS3+) I have kernel panics and reboots (once the MBP tries to go to sleep I guess).

Bluetooth issues disappeared after re-connecting my Apple keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2.

I think I will return the M1 MBP because kernel panics all day long is nothing I have expected.
Perhaps I will try again with the new 14-inch oder 16-inch MBPs if the rumors are true (hoping also for more than two Thunderbolt ports as well... and support for more than one external display).

 

[themacuser789]

has anyone got a straight answer from apple about the Bluetooth audio glitching out with AirPods (Pro)? Every minute or 5 it’s drops the sound for a second or sound gets distorted for 2 seconds. Clicking on the Bluetooth icon in the menu and clicking on airplay icon in music causes glitch or left / right to go out of sync, or stop playing all together. Even clicking the wifi icon in menu will cause it too glitch. Can’t use it for meeting or streaming any movies. Too annoying ?

Have reset Bluetooth module, reset devices, removed all devices, reset factory settings, rebooted many times, reinstalled from scratch. At wits end.

Have 11.1 installed (got the RC2 early) and no better. Is it just Bit Sur? Or should I send it back?

edit. M1 Air base model.

I returned my M1 MacBook Pro for this issue, but the replacement has the same problem. I'm waiting for a software update that will hopefully fix this bluetooth fault.

 

[hashsi99]

I'm experiencing transcendent battery life on my MBA, still on 11.0.1. Anyone else? My issue is this has ruined and devalued all other laptops for me that can't hold a candle to this...

Same. I will stay on 11.0.1

im 100% Sure with each update (Mac or iPhone) Apple makes the product just a tiny bit worse.

example: looking at pictures I took with my iPhone X iOS 11 (what it shipped with) compared to pictures taken with same phone on iOS 14. The iOS 14 pictures look like crap. Apple definitely “nerfs” their products.

 

[themacuser789]

I found the cause and solution to the Bluetooth audio glitch -- Submitted both consumer feedback to apple, and formal developer bug report (FB8943911). I noticed the issue happened every time the "Location Services" icon appeared in the menu bar (which I've enabled in Privacy settings).

So I played around with turning off various Location services under System Services > "Details" button, and pinned it down to "Wi-Fi Networking" causing the problem! In fact, you can uncheck that, wait a few seconds and then reenable, and the dropout happens again instantly. "Wi-Fi Calling" also seems to trigger it (but I didn't have that checked initially.) None of the other options (Time Zone, Find my Mac, etc.) seemed to cause the issue. So I left Wi-Fi Networking unchecked and the sporadic audio glitches seems to have ceased.

I don't use Bluetooth for mouse or trackpad, but wonder if this may be the cause of those issues too. Give this a try and hope it helps you and others...

This seems to have fixed my bluetooth audio issues - thank you.

UPDATE: unfortunately the issue has returned

 

[trulsdd]

I've been having a hard time with FCP today... I wanted to slide five pictures out to the right using a transition, but there was no way. It crashed on me several times - to the point where whenever I restarted my MBA 512/8 it just instantly crashed again as it opened FCP.

Spent the hour trying to figure out a way to do it. Even did one transition at a time, and rendered in between, but nothing helped. Had to give it up. It also struggled with captions! For some reason captions in FCP made it choke at times.

Plays back 4k footage like butter, It's amazing to work with, but there is still a lot of bugs...

Now, the render time is amazing - and that's all and well - but I spend 20x more time actually editing than rendering and/or exporting, and I really hope Apple fixes this asap.