Anyone else finding that Tahoe 26 freezes up every few minutes?

No issues here (M4 Pro MBP).

If you haven't, shut down the Mac (Apple menu, NOT just a restart) then start it back up.

If still happening, see if the problem is present when you boot in safe mode, which disables 3rd party extensions and performs some system cleanup.

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

If not, then it suggests an extension conflict. Check System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions for likely culprits, or try process or elimination.

I had exactly the same problem, and it got progressively worse until the Mac unusable. There was a kernel task running in the background that would frequently spike the CPU causing the glitches. The Mac is less than 3 months old, has 32gb ram and a 10

core CPU, but just running finder and nothing else was causing CPU spikes! After 4 calls to AppleCare, they grudgingly agreed that rolling it back to sequoia would be the best option (which was a bit of an arduous process). It seems to have returned to its former self now but I lost pretty much a full day of work sorting it.

I have a solution🎉!!

My M3 Pro MBP was freezing every two minutes, ish since Tahoe. Phone to Apple support for an hour didn't really solve anything, so I tinkered about. This is what I did — something worked because it doesn't happen any more — I did it all pretty fast so I'm unsure which step exactly worked, but this works...

System Settings — Spotlight — Search Privacy — add your hard drive. Come out of settings, close it, restart, back into settings and remove hard drive. This forces indexing to stop and restart.

Delete everything from user/library/cache and Mac/library/cache

disk utility - hard drive - data - delete all Time Machine snapshots

delete start up items and processes that aren't used

That's it.

I suspect the answer is step 1, so do that and restart, and see how you go. I think the best thing, is when there is a full system update, to erase the Mac and start from scratch. Updates never seem to work 100%.

Don't delete anything if it'll affect what you do. With me, it didn't, but it was a risk. Step 1 doesn't involve deleting anything.

dhp317 wrote:

Thanks for your appropriate suggestions. I should have mentioned that I have done that. If anything, the freezing up was more frequent in safe mode. I think I will roll back to Sequoia and hope something gets patched.

Safeboot is more trouble shooting and not meant to run smoothly— just to differentiate issue than what got you here, and remove system cache files. Its going to be choppy yes.

" system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily"

the etrecheck as suggested may reveal something or reinstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS to resolve major upgrade issue How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support Aoole makes this part easy

no issue like yours on a 2019 Intel MPB 16" macOS 26

My reason for problems in Tahoe was LittleSnitch, an update solved the freeze and losing Network connectivity.

Before you jump off that cliff, download etrecheck and post the report it generates here.

https://etrecheck.com/en/index.html

It may help us identify what's bogging your system down. There' may very well be extensions or software installed that are causing problems with Tahoe.

Probably easier to troubleshoot this than to nuke it and re-install.

I also have the same issue MacBook Pro M4 Max freezing up for a couple of seconds on every few minutes and this started after upgrading to 26.0 and 26.0.1 didn't fixed the issue either. I hope they will release the bug fix update soon.

I've had the same issue since installation too. I thought 26.0.1 would fix it but it is still freezing every few minutes. This is on both my M4 Mac mini and my M1 MacBook Pro. I thought it was just the keyboard of mouse playing up. I've changed both but still having the same issue.

MacBook Pro M3Pro, after update to MacOS26, each time I try to send files on Mail, using MailDrop, computer freezes. Must force quit Mail and any other app in order to work.

Also, every time I open Safari, the color wheel turns for a while before the program actually works.

Yes, 36GB M3 Pro MBP. Every 5-10 mins system freeze, beach ball, external trackpad freezes then after 30 seconds-ish rapid track pad clicks and back to normal. So annoying.

Similar issue. Every 2 minutes or so, macbook freezes, beachball appears (sometimes the trackpad stops working completely?) ... I have restarted my macbook several times, and it still freezes. Updated to 26.0.1, and it still freezes. Hard to work with.

I feel like Apple is trying to seriously upset it's users. After update to version 26 my Air M2 became very slow, impossible to use, even after restarts, the ghrome is becomming impossible to use, eventually everything freezzes and i have to hard restart it few time per week. Are they serious with such software?!

I see many people complaining about it. Fix it Apple!

26.0.1

same problem with TWS Interactive blockers!

others apps works with no problems!