{"id":31610,"date":"2021-02-09T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31610"},"modified":"2021-06-07T11:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:35:23","slug":"remaining-issues-new-in-catalina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/remaining-issues-new-in-catalina\/","title":{"rendered":"Remaining Issues New in Catalina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After staying on Mojave for an extra year due to the large number of issues with Catalina, I <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/updating-to-catalina-finally\/\">started using<\/a> it on my main Mac with macOS 10.15.7. This post lists some of the problems I&rsquo;ve run into that were not present in Mojave. These are user-facing bugs, not including the API bugs that I filed around the time Catalina was released. These are very unlikely to be fixed at this point, and it&rsquo;s extra work to develop on Catalina and test on Big Sur, so I plan to upgrade to Big Sur soon. Xcode 12.5 <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/xcode-12-5-beta\/\">will<\/a> require it, but I&rsquo;m hoping that a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/old-superduper-for-big-sur\/\">SuperDuper<\/a> will be released first.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><p>In general, it seems less reliable, with frequent UI freezes, and I have to restart every few days (instead of every few weeks) in order to prevent slowdowns or random breakages (network, printing, emptying the trash, etc.).<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>I saw more kernel panics in a couple months of using Catalina than in probably the entire previous decade.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/394466\/anyone-able-to-get-ups-on-a-macbook-pro-to-work-correctly\">no longer works<\/a> with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001126QE0\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">Tripp Lite UPS<\/a>.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Syncing my iPhone over Wi-Fi never completes and can&rsquo;t be canceled. The chasing arrows continue spinning even if I power off my iPhone.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Finder doesn&rsquo;t remember which iPhones have been hidden from its sidebar.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Sometimes I can&rsquo;t restart because Finder says &ldquo;an operation is still in progress on an iOS device.&rdquo; No such operation is visible, Wi-Fi syncing is disabled, and no iPhone is plugged in. Force quitting doesn&rsquo;t help.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>There are intermittent problems connecting to other Macs via file sharing. Other, non-Catalina, Macs can connect to those same Macs with no trouble.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Working with network drives in Finder is much slower. Even if I turn off the preview column, it beachballs for a while after selecting a large number of files.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Finder stops responding for 30&#x2013;60 seconds at seemingly random times. There are also random UI freezes in other apps.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The Music app showed only generic album art (for songs not purchased from the iTunes Store) and propagated that to my iPhone, so I lost the art there, too. I was able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/dougscripts.com\/itunes\/scripts\/ss.php?sp=mxapplyembeddedartwork\">this script<\/a> to get it to use the embedded images again.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Sometimes the TV app&rsquo;s window doesn&rsquo;t show any content, only the Apple logo.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Image Capture is sometimes unable to delete photos from my iPhone after importing them. It says that it deleted them, but then they come back.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>My default mail app was changed from Mail to Airmail without my doing anything (not even launching Airmail).<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail is slow to display messages that have already been downloaded, sometimes taking 30 seconds after clicking on a message and sometimes not displaying the content at all until I navigate to another message and back.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail rules fail to move messages to local mailboxes.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail rules copy messages instead of moving them when the target mailbox is in a different account.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail messages disappear (and are <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15\/\">deleted<\/a>) when dragged and dropped between mailboxes.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail&rsquo;s rule editor takes much longer to open, e.g. 1 minute and 52 seconds for one of my rules with lots of criteria.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Mail search results are missing some messages that should have matched.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Submailboxes (and even the disclosure triangle) in Mail sometimes disappear until I quit and restart the app.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Sometimes tooltips appear on the far side of the wrong display instead of near the cursor.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>NetNewsWire <a href=\"https:\/\/inessential.com\/2020\/12\/23\/com_apple_network_boringssl_metrics_queu\">hangs<\/a> because of a macOS networking bug.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Apps distributed in ZIP archives stay in <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/gatekeeper-path-randomization\/\">App Translocation<\/a> when installed in <tt>~\/Applications<\/tt> rather than <tt>\/Applications<\/tt>.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>iMessage no longer reliably syncs the read status with my iPhone.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>FaceTime crashes when I try to initiate a call on my phone by clicking a link on the Mac.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>File transfers using the Screen Sharing app are 10-50x slower.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Various apps have window layering and drawing glitches. For example, the window chrome disappears, parts of other windows are drawn on top, or the behavior and appearance of the key window don&rsquo;t match.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Various apps can&rsquo;t open open\/save panels due to XPC errors. Other times, the panels do open but take 30 seconds to do so.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/check-free-space-before-updating-to-big-sur\/\">Check Free Space Before Updating to Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/xcode-12-5-beta\/\">Xcode 12.5 Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/macos-11-2\/\">macOS 11.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/old-superduper-for-big-sur\/\">Old SuperDuper for Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/30\/2020-six-colors-apple-report-card\/\">2020 Six Colors Apple Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/13\/waiting-to-update-to-big-sur\/\">Waiting to Update to Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/09\/updating-to-catalina-finally\/\">Updating to Catalina, Finally<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/24\/macos-10-15-7\/\">macOS 10.15.7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/awaiting-superduper-for-big-sur\/\">Awaiting SuperDuper for Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/apps-lost-with-catalina\/\">Apps Lost With Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/mail-data-loss-in-macos-10-15\/\">Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"remaining-issues-new-in-catalina-update-2021-02-19\">Update (2021-02-19): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MacOS\/comments\/lgl9xo\/why_im_choosing_to_stay_on_mojave_for_as_long_as\/\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After staying on Mojave for an extra year due to the large number of issues with Catalina, I started using it on my main Mac with macOS 10.15.7. This post lists some of the problems I&rsquo;ve run into that were not present in Mojave. 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