Only a week in the past, Apple launched its newest macOS replace, macOS Sequoia 15, together with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. In response to TechCrunch’s newest report, macOS Sequoia is inflicting points with a number of safety instruments, together with fashionable ones like CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft.
For the time being, it isn’t clear whether or not the issue is brought on by macOS Sequoia or by the safety instruments that haven’t been up to date. Nonetheless, many Mac customers are experiencing difficulties utilizing their machines, significantly with net searching (on Firefox) and different network-related points.
In response to the report, a CrowdStrike gross sales engineer in a Slack room mentioned, “I’m very sorry to report that we’ll not be supporting Sequoia on day one, regardless of our intention (and former observe file) to assist the newest OS inside hours of (Common Availability),” and in addition despatched out a tech alert to the purchasers concerning the identical.
In response to a number of Reddit posts, Mac customers (with CrowdStrike safety) who replace to the newest macOS Sequoia are dealing with points whereas loading web sites, and the one strategy to repair this subject is to disable the Falcon community filter.
As of now, Apple has not responded to TechCrunch’s request on the identical. Along with CrowdStrike clients on Mac, clients with different safety options, resembling SentinelOne, ESET, and Microsoft Defender, are additionally dealing with comparable points.
This occurs months after a big outage of Microsoft PCs utilizing CrowdStrike endpoint safety. Should you’re a Mac consumer with an endpoint safety resolution, it may be finest to attend a number of extra weeks earlier than updating to the newest macOS Sequoia, particularly in your work machine.
