The previous couple of weeks have been plagued with bugs and oddities for customers who up to date their Mac units to macOS Sonoma 14.4, together with a very thorny difficulty that functionally broke numerous customers’ USB hubs. A brand new replace, macOS 14.4.1, has simply been launched to handle essentially the most infamous points – so that you’ll need to replace your system as quickly as potential.
Based on TweakTown, the replace was launched yesterday to the general public and can resolve a problem that affected USB hubs related to the displays folks had been utilizing with their Macs. Discussions on Reddit threads and Apple’s assist boards indicated that whereas the issue won’t have been extremely widespread, it was nonetheless affecting an honest variety of folks.
Whereas Apple hasn’t launched any formal statements in regards to the points, it’s good to see Apple swoop in and supply a fast, no-frills resolution for the problem. The brand new replace doesn’t supply any new options in addition to the bug fixes, so in the event you’re anxious about presumably catching one other macOS bug from it you possibly can assume there’s probably nothing else to go flawed with such a focused repair.
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Sonoma 14.4 hasn’t simply been plaguing customers’ USB hubs, it’s been taking down printers as effectively. Whereas the printer difficulty hasn’t been reported as extensively because the USB breakdown, it’s nonetheless one other unwelcome bug that arrived courtesy of the replace.
The replace has additionally been reported to be deleting beforehand saved variations of information in customers’ iCloud Drives, successfully deleting folks’s backups in the event that they moved information out of iCloud. Usually, if you save your information in iCloud Drive all of the edited variations of your file are saved for future reference, however because of yet one more bug in Sonoma 14.4 these earlier variations may very well be erased – which could imply all of your work is gone.
Hopefully, one other upcoming replace will tackle these points alongside the USB hub bug, however we’ll have to attend and see if that’s the case. There’s no indication to this point that the brand new replace offers with all of the at present reported points – however you’re higher off updating your system simply in case.
