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Andrea1973

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Dec 2, 2023
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Still there in Sonoma 14.1.2.
I tried different macbook, including M3, in a mac store, all get the issue. I used the Terminal application to reproduce the bug. Chrome in severely affected in my case (macbook 16, 2019, Intel i9).
 
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Ben J.

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Aug 29, 2019
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This thread showed up when I searched the forum for "genie effect problem", as I have seen this chopped animation every now and then lately, when unhiding an app from the Dock. Perhaps once a day. Often that would be Mail.

This is on my new M2 Pro Mini. I've never seen it before, on my previous M1 and M2 mac minis, running Big Sur or Ventura (or the two weeks I tried out Sonoma, for that matter), with varying amounts of memory. Mostly using the same monitor configuration and the Dock on the right side, in auto-hide mode, and I haven't been using Stagemanager since trying it out for a few weeks when it was new.

I've chosen the zoom instead of "genie" option now, and I'll see if that helps.

(I do suspect that this is akin to the "SOCD watchdog expired" kernel panic that happened on my M1's, which I and others speculate would be something wrong deep in the SOC/unifiedmemory design of the M processors.)
 

Ben J.

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Aug 29, 2019
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I've chosen the zoom instead of "genie" option now, and I'll see if that helps.

No. Still happens.
Seems to happen when I'm in one space, like a full screen browser, and I click an app in the Dock that is locked to a different space, so both the zoom/genie effect and the changing of spaces happens at once.
 

r2.d2

macrumors newbie
Oct 10, 2023
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The only solution I know is to disable this setting and restore the applications by clicking the application thumbnail in the doc rather than the application icon.
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I started noticing this many-many years ago and this was only the case with the Music app, everything else worked well. Today I have this issue with many other apps as well, native and third-party.

It looks like a kind of race condition to me. Every time you click an application icon in the Dock, it first brings the window and then runs the Genie effect. Another option I can think of is Apple changed something in their APIs, probably some events or protocols. Some of the apps got an update, but others might still be using deprecated APIs.

Just wondering does Tim Cook have a Mac? I would like to see his face when he's enjoying this amazing Genie effect. Especially at some of Apple's public events.
 

Chirkoff

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Oct 4, 2024
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Sequoia has already been released, but the problem is still not fixed. Has anyone tried contacting Apple support?
 

kecinzer

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Yes, I already reported it, but no response. Thanks to this bug, I will try Stage Manager and stick with it. This issue not happening with Stage Manager.
 

Ben J.

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Aug 29, 2019
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Strange. I had completely forgotten about this. My last post in the thread was in january. I don't think I've seen it since. And I have changed very little since then. Same OS, same monitor configuration etc. I've kept my animation settings on 'minimize', though, not 'genie'.
 

Chirkoff

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Oct 4, 2024
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Yes, I already reported it, but no response. Thanks to this bug, I will try Stage Manager and stick with it. This issue not happening with Stage Manager.
Thank you for your reply. I thought after so long no one would write. Apple support didn't answer?
I can't get used to the stage manager yet. I had this problem on MacBook 14 and now on MacBook 16. I tried different resolutions, disable ProMotion, nothing helps.
 

Chirkoff

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Oct 4, 2024
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Strange. I had completely forgotten about this. My last post in the thread was in january. I don't think I've seen it since. And I have changed very little since then. Same OS, same monitor configuration etc. I've kept my animation settings on 'minimize', though, not 'genie'.
I tried to change the effect, it doesn't solve the problem for me. Options that work at the moment:
1. Enable stage manager
2. Disable the "Minimize windows into applications icon" option
 

Lynx24

macrumors newbie
Oct 11, 2024
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Your only option right now is to disable minimize into app icon and keep stage manager on at all times

I ran into this too on my new M3 Air and even after the update to Sequoia.. there is no patch yet.
Honestly almost forgot about this till today until i accidentally clicked on the app icon instead of the seperate window on dock.

It makes no sense given how it only triggers when clicking on the app icon and not the seperate window.

Is it affecting specific devices or equally across the product line?
 
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