“It is rare but your Mac can freeze and become unresponsive,” Serhat Kurt reports for macReports. “While the macOS Mojave update brings a lot of great features, users are reporting number of issues, such as the battery drain problem. One other problem that’s affecting many Mac users is the entire computer freezing when attempting to login.”
Covered, in order of what to execute:
• Force Quit Applications
• Start up your Mac in safe mode
• macOS recovery
• Reinstalling macOS
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re not seeing any issues with macOS Mojave freezing or becoming unresponsive, but if you’re having issues, hopefully you can avoid the fourth bullet point. Good luck!
I’ve had periodic freezes. Not a lot. Maybe 3 if I remember correctly. Each time It seemed to be related to Safari, and sites with too much advertising.
I’ve had my largest problems with remote installs of Mojave. The installs don’t complete properly sometimes which can cause me to have to drive 20 miles just to restart a computer and complete an install. This has happened 7 or 8 times. It’s highly unusual.
… “sites with too much advertising.”
Like this website? 😉
He can’t answer your question. His computer froze.
Another quality piece of software put out by Pipeline.
Oh stop it people! I’ve been using Mohave since the day released including on an OLD MacBook Pro Mid 2012. I use all current versions of software on this OLD MacBOOK Pro including Adobe CC 2018 with no issues. I have it maxed out with 16GB ram and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Stop your whining and get some work done… more fake news. The System Freezes are probably people having 10 Porn Sites open at once. Get your hands out of pants and your Mac will work better!
Similar situation; running Mojave on a Mid 2012 MacBook Pro with an SSD and maxed-out RAM and it’s been great; no freezes or forced reboots and it seems as fast or faster than High Sierra. I use Safari as my main browser and that’s been working fine as well with no delays despite having 9-10 tabs open (not porn), though there’s a really annoying issue of Safari opening links in the same tab as well as a new tab when I try to open them in a new tab.
I have a similar MacBook Pro Mid 2012, since I maxed RAM and equipped it with a MX500 SSD, it flyes. I remember it froze only one time since it was maxed out. Mojave, according to my experience, is a rock solid OS. Only glitch is it does not support widescreen monitors (I have one, solved it using SwitchResX)
Far queue, karnt.
I’ve also seen it related to Safari. The whole machine becomes unresponsive for 30-90 seconds and eventually works again. I’ve also see it go haywire when plugging in an HDMI projector. Screen goes blank for 60 seconds, then comes back up, then goes away. I’ve also seen it not recognize the internal MacBook Pro display with a secondary monitor plugged in. Upgraded to the latest version this morning and hoping it resolved them.
Oh stop it people! I’ve been using Mohave since the day released including on an OLD MacBook Pro Mid 2012. I use all current versions of software on this OLD MacBOOK Pro including Adobe CC 2018 with no issues. I have it maxed out with 16GB ram and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Stop your whining and get some work done… more fake news. The System Freezes are probably people having 10 Porn Sites open at once. Get your hands out of pants and your Mac will work better!
Not sure if this is related, but in our office of nine iMacs — ranging in vintage from late 2012 through mid 2017 — TWO of our computers simply refused to boot up today. We could see the backlight in the screen go on, but no start-up chime, no Apple logo, nothing. Both machines running the current Mojave installation (10.14.1). One machine was about five years old, one was only a few weeks old.
Since we never got to boot up, the usual tricks — Boot in Safe Mode, Boot in Recovery Mode — were useless. We had to resort to pulling out the RAM chips and trying to start up to “shock” the system back to consciousness. It worked, too. Both times. So weird.
And no, I don’t blame Tim Cook.
Were the two bought simultaneously? Close serial numbers? Sometimes when you buy computers in batches the same hardware problems surface across the batch around the same time. I hope the two people working on those two Macs didn’t both get the same e-mail from Evil Santa.
“We could see the backlight in the screen go on, but no start-up chime, no Apple logo, nothing.”
Same here. I then have to unplug it, plug it back in, and then push the start up switch in the back which successfully boots up the iMac. The switch works all day but not in the morning. In the morning, I have to unplug, replug, and push the switch.
Saw this problem on a 2014 Mac mini connected to displays through both HDMI and Display Port. Have not had the problem with the i7 2018 Mac mini.
It’s called karma, Dangles.
Since I installed Mohave and the Pages updates, Pages on iCloud has several times quit, causing minor loss of edits in documents. Anyone else had this experience? Pages has always been ultra reliable for me. I am a writer and editor and use it all day on Macs.
My Pages can’t make text black. The darkest is dark blue.
It’s yet more karma, ding dong dangler
mojave on my less than one year old mac has continual spinning beachballs and hangups … even aspinning beachball for every text message sent … been using apple and mac for over 20 years … not happy with mojave …
Not likely Mojave per say, but something that was already on the computer. I would back it up and do a clean install.
Or it is MOJAVE. Do you have a magic diagnosis ball or something?
Dave… is that you, Dingler? It’s not fsrking Mojave, it’s third party software.
I saw this problem with various builds of betas of the software on my MacBook Pro, but have not seen it after the release. My desktops have not had them problem on beta or release OS.
I’ve had this issue for months. Recently I changed an Energy Saver setting, and turned ON (checked the box) for “Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.” I have also unchecked “Enable Power Nap” for good measure.
Forgot to say that since checking “Prevent computer from sleeping” my Mac has not hung overnight once.