Especially around Zoom usage, right click, and screenshot Dozens of users are reporting 'beachball' and system hanging. It happened to me while I was on a Teams call and oddly while everything was frozen, Teams audio continued like a voice from the dead, and I could not hang up. Teams is installed on all devices, however, we think this is more likely MS Defender-style behaviour, as it has its fingesr deep into the system, but who knows. CPU use is low, if you can get Activity monitor to work while it's frozen. Starts with an Office app beachballing, then the whole machine freezes, but comes back mysteriously after 5minutes or so. Hi there we are seeing Mac freezes too across multiple devices. Like the whole machine freezes for minutes and then returns to normal to catch up on everything you tried to to while it was freezing. Users are also not able to launch other applications while this is happening. He points out that the problem in (only visible with login) was described by users as follows:ĭid the problematic versions of Teams cause the entire machine to freeze? What we are seeing here is that when the problem occurs you can't even type in non-Office applications or they take very long to register your input. macOS BigSur 11, Monterey 12 and Ventura 13. Sometimes the problem resolves itself after 2-5 minutes of waiting, but most users restart by then anyway.Īccording to Constatin, the problem occurs with the above-mentioned Defender versions in all supported macOS versions, i.e. Microsoft released version 101.86.81 of Microsoft Defender for macOS at the end of October, and since the beginning of this week there have been increased problems with this version.Īfter a certain amount of time, users experience hang-ups and the so-called beachball (see screenshot of the icon) is displayed. This version was released at the end of October 2022.

emailed me to point out the problem (thanks for that), which involved Microsoft Defender for macOS version 101.86.81.

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