Macbook Pro 15" 2018 randomly freezing keyboard/trackpad on wake.

[iMacDragon]

Just seeing if this is happening to anyone else, I have reported it to apple, but seemingly randomly when waking laptop from sleep the keyboard/trackpad become completely unresponsive, requiring a reboot to return to working since beta1.

Rather an annoying issue when it happens, either have to just force power off/on or VNC in to reboot.

 

[iMacDragon]

Am I really the only person been having this issue with Catalina? Problem didn't occur until Catalina beta, and when tried to report it was marked unreproducable..

 

[iMacDragon]

I guess next time does it I should Vnc in and see what usb status is

 

[Jimbo Asprilla]

I’m having the same issue too, every time I try and wake my machine it’s totally unresponsive, I’ve reported the issue too, I've tweaked my power settings but it’s still doing it.

 

[0014]

I get it on my 2018 rMBA. But my 2019 15” MBP has been fine.

 

[vikingo]

Same problem here!

 

[Kaydin]

Having the same issue with my 2015 13" Retina MacBook Pro. Horrible! It's been here since DP4.

 

[Jimbo Asprilla]

Updated, still doing it.

 

[iMacDragon]

For me it's not every time, but maybe a 1/3 chance..

 

[kylewilkinson53]

I’m having this issue, since updating to Beta 5 it’s becoming more frequent.

 

[krusnof]

Same issue, currently only happens when plugging into power. Not on battery mode. Only experienced it in B5, not earlier.

 

[iMacDragon]

I've noticed my issues more often on battery, but not any consistent pattern.

 

[VHHess]

2015 12 inch MacBook, same problem.

In my case I have used my laptop for a long time so I think the battery is slightly degraded so I always have to keep it plugged into power to do time machine back up… Therefore it seems like I may not be able to do back ups until the next beta. I will see if I can attempt a time machine back up while I’m battery power but I did notice a couple issues where the laptop claimed it needed to charge when I tried to turn on the machine, and then upon hooking up the power cord it was at 61% battery… So my battery probably needs serviced on top of this being an affected 2015 model.

My trackpad freezes when I am trying to do a time machine back up, however I don’t think the battery would last long enough for the large back up I need to do. At first I thought it was because of an overheating issue because the bottom got really warm, about to hot to touch. But even having a cooling pad or even an air conditioning blowing against it, it still kept freezing. And when I came back, whether it was the display turned off or the screen was still on, the entire system was frozen including trackpad.

I will try a time machine back up with power nap disabled and without any power source connect into it. I will do it with 100% charged and see if the system freezes including trackpad. I will mention that the screen image remains the same even when the laptop lid is completely closed.

 

[RednBlue]

Same issue for lots of people with 2015 Macbook. I recently had a new battery installed in mine by Apple and the symptoms are identical to yours, except I can use battery only power to get round the problem. It's been reported by quite a few people but you should do the same - hopefully it will be resolved in the next update - it's been two weeks since the last one, so hopefully soon.

 

[patwithamac]

I'm seeing this happen on my 2018 15 inch MBP after upgrading to Catalina 10.15.0 (GM).

 

[iMacDragon]

Touch wood, I've not had it happen since 10.15.1 now.. but I'm not calling it solved for sure, as I had a period of several weeks back in september it didn't happen either.

 

[HerreDeurloo]

Anyone found a solution for this. For me happens the same and completely random.

 

[Glenny2lappies]

Are you using VMWare Fusion?

Pretty certain these symptoms are caused by that -- have a 16" MBP which suffers from that if a Fusion VM is running. Have other threads here and on VMWare's forums.

 

[Bl00dWolf]

Same om MBP 2018 15' =(
Any news about this problem?

 

[617arg]

I'm having this issue too. My machine usually says it "unexpectedly restarted because of a problem" upon wake from sleep, but when it doesn't do that I lose mouse click functionality upon wake from sleep. This is on a fresh install of Catalina 10.15.3, on a late 2014 iMac Retina. Actually performed two fresh installs in an attempt to fix this, but still happening......

 

[krusnof]

Stopped happening on a newer version of Catalina for me.

 

[617arg]

I don't know what to do. I have the latest version and this is so buggy....... constantly restarting because a mouse can't click.....seriously Apple?

 

[Ries]

I started having this since I updated to .4

 

[uncleiven]

Yeah my MBP 15" 2018 has been doing this every since I've been on 10.15. Another symptom for me is that when I wake the MBP, and once it finally responds and lets me sign in I have no internet access so I have to restart it.

 

[gryzl]

It happens to me on my MBP 16" Cataline 10.15.5

Unlocked the screen and keyboard and mouse are totally unresponsive. Been this way randomly for quite awhile. This time, I hit the Siri button which caused it to become responsive again. For what that's worth.