Tuesday saw Apple drop the first public release of macOS Catalina, a move which has caught out a number of developers, including some offering security solutions, as well as organizations and ordinary macOS users. While SentinelOne is already Catalina-compatible (more details below), Apple’s unannounced release date has left some scrambling to catch up as macOS 10.15 introduces some major changes under the hood, undoubtedly the biggest we’ve seen in some time. Anyone considering a Catalina upgrade should be aware of how these changes could affect current enterprise workflows, whether further updates for dependency code are required and are available, and whether the new version of macOS is going to necessitate a shift to new software or working practices. In this post, we cover the major changes and challenges that Catalina brings to enterprise macOS fleets.
And even though Catalina works on older Mac systems, Sidecar, as a feature, requires more modern hardware. This means you will need a late 2015 iMac 27-inch or newer, 2016 MacBook Pro or newer.
First things first: Yes, it does. SentinelOne macOS Agent version 3.2.1.2800 was rolled out on the same day that Apple released macOS 10.15 Catalina. This Agent is supported with Management Consoles Grand Canyon & Houston. Ideally, you should update your SentinelOne Agent version before updating to Catalina to ensure the smoothest upgrade flow.
Contrary to popular (mis)belief, kexts or kernel extensions are still alive and well in Catalina, and the move to a new “kextless” future with Apple’s SystemExtensions framework remains optional at least for the time being. However, that doesn’t mean your current array of kernel extensions from other developers are necessarily going to be unproblematic during an upgrade.
New rules for kexts mean developers at a minimum have to notarize them, and users will have to restart the Mac after approving them. On top of that, developers – particularly those distributing security software – will need to update their kexts and solutions to be compatible with Catalina’s new TCC and user privacy rules, changes in partition architecture and discontinued support for 32-bit apps (see below), among other things.
Upgrading a Mac to 10.15 with incompatible kexts already installed could lead to one or more kernel panics.
The safest bet is to contact vendors to check on their Catalina support before you pull the trigger on the Catalina upgrade. If for some reason that’s not possible or you have legacy kexts installed which are out of support, the best advice is to remove those before you upgrade a test machine, then immediately test for compatibility as part of your post-install routine.
Apple called time on 32-bit applicationsseveral releases ago, offering increasingly urgent warnings of their impending doom through High Sierra and Mojave. However, in macOS Mojave these would still run after users dismissed the one-time warning alert, but Catalina finally drops the axe on 32-bit applications.
Before upgrading, check what legacy applications you have installed. From the command line, you can output a report with:
system_profiler SPLegacySoftwareDataType
For GUI users, you can take a trip to Apple > About This Mac and click the System Report… button.
Scroll down the sidebar to “Legacy Apps” and click on it. Here you’ll see a list of all the apps that won’t run on Catalina. macOS 10.15 itself will also list any legacy apps during the upgrade process, but it’s wise to be prepared before you get that far.
Open source 3d drawing software. Catalina continues to allow various enterprise upgrade paths through its Mobile Device Management (MDM) framework, Device Enrollment Program (DEP) and Apple Configurator. For organizations enrolled in Apple’s Volume Purchase Program or with Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager licensing, Catalina is supported right out of the door, saving you the bother of having to manually download, package and then install multiple instances of 10.15.
New in Catalina are Managed Apple IDs for Business, which attempt to separate the user’s work identity from their personal identity, allowing them to use separate accounts for things like iCloud Notes, iCloud Drive, Mail, Contacts and other services.
There is a plus here for user privacy, but for admins used to having total control over managed endpoints, be aware that a device with an enrollment profile and managed Apple ID means the business loses power over things like remote wipe and access to certain user data. Effectively, the device is separated in to “personal” and “managed” (i.e., business use), with a separate APFS volume for the managed accounts, apps and data.
That’s not the only thing to be aware of with regards user data. The biggest change that end users are going to notice as they get to work on a newly upgraded macOS 10.15 Catalina install is Apple’s extended privacy control policies, which will manifest themselves in a number of ways.
In the earlier, macOS 10.14 Mojave, there are 12 items listed in the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy pane in System Preferences. Catalina adds five more, with Speech Recognition, Input Monitoring, Files and Folders, Screen Recording, and Developer Tools added in the new version of macOS.
Here’s what the first three control:
Importantly, the three items above can only be allowed at the specific time when applications try to touch any of these services. Although applications can be pre-denied by MDM provisioning and configuration profiles, they cannot be pre-allowed. That has important implications for your workflows since any software in the enterprise that requires these permissions must obtain user approval in the UI in order to function correctly, or indeed at all. Be aware that Catalina’s implementation of Transparency, Consent and Control is not particularly forthcoming with feedback. Applications may simply silently fail when permission is denied.
The most obvious, but certainly not only, place where privacy controls are going to cause issue is with video meeting/conferencing software like Zoom, Skype and similar. Prompts from the OS that suggest applications must be restarted after permission has been granted for certain services like Screen Recording have raised fears that clicking ‘Allow’ during a meeting might kick users out of the conference while the app re-launches. Conversely, users who inadvertently click ‘Don’t Allow’ may wonder why later attempts to use the software continue to fail.
What all this means is that with macOS Catalina, there is a greater onus on sysadmins to engage in user education to preempt these kinds of issues before they arise. Thoroughly test how the apps you rely on are going to behave and what workflow users need to follow to ensure minimal interruption to their daily activities.
The remaining two additional items are:
These last two can both be pre-approved. The first grants access to user files in places like Desktop, Downloads, and Documents folders. The second allows developers to run their own software that isn’t yet notarized, signed or ready to be distributed (and thus subject to macOS’s full system policy).
Here’s a good example of what all this might mean in practice. Let’s take as destination a user’s machine on which File Sharing, Remote Management (which allows Screen Sharing) and Remote Login (for SSH) have been enabled.
Suppose, as admin, I choose to both Screen Share and File Share from my source machine into this user’s computer. These two different services only require the same credentials – user name and password for a registered user on the destination device – to be entered a single time per session to simultaneously enable both services, but they have confusingly different restrictions.
Trying to navigate to the destination’s Desktop folder via File Sharing in the Finder from the source indicates that the user’s Desktop folder is empty rather than inaccessible.
If I persist in trying to access any of these protected folders, the misleading Finder display is eventually replaced with a permission denied alert.
While Screen Sharing in the same session, however, I can see the Desktop folder’s contents without a problem; in fact, in this case it contains 17 items. Indeed, via Screen Sharing, I can move these items from the Desktop folder to any other folder that is accessible through File Sharing, such as the ~/Public folder. That, in a roundabout and inconvenient way, means I can get past the permission denial thrown above. Further, because I can enable other services in the Privacy pane from my Screen Sharing session, such as Full Disk Access, I can also use those to grant myself SSH access, with which I am similarly also able to work around the File Share permission denied problem.
This kind of inconsistency and complexity is unfortunate. Aside from making legitimate users jump through these hoops for no security pay-off, it raises this question: what does a legitimate user need to do to make File Sharing work properly? It seems we should go to the Files and Folders pane in System preferences and add the required process. But what process needs to be added? There’s simply no help here for those trying to figure out how to manage Apple’s user privacy controls. As it turns out, there also appears to be a bug in the UI that prevents anything at all being added to Files and Folders, so at the moment we can’t answer that question for you either.
This expansion of user privacy controls has one very significant and obvious consequence for everyone using macOS 10.15 Catalina, graphically portrayed in this tweet by Tyler Hall.
The spectacle of numerous alerts has made some liken Apple’s investment in user privacy through consent to Microsoft’s much-maligned Windows Vista release, which had a similarly poor reputation for irritating users with an array of constant popups and dialogs, many of which seemed quite unnecessary.
Yes, your macOS users are going to be hit by a plethora of authorization requests, alerts and notifications. While Tyler Hall’s image was undoubtedly designed to illustrate the effect in dramatic fashion, there’s no doubt that Catalina’s insistence on popping alerts is going to cause a certain amount of irritation among many users after they upgrade, and who then try getting down to some work only to be interrupted multiple times. However, if the trade-off for a bit of disruption to workflows is improved security, then that’s surely not such a bad thing?
The question is whether security is improved in this way or not. Experience has taught malware authors that users are easily manipulated, a well-recognized phenomenon that led to the coining of the phrase “social engineering” and the prevalence of phishing and spearphishing attacks as the key to business compromise.
On the one hand, some will feel that these kinds of alerts and notifications help educate users about what applications are doing – or attempting to do – behind the scenes, and user education is always a net positive in terms of security.
On the other hand, the reality is that most users are simply trying to use a device to get work done. Outside of admins, IT and security folk, the overwhelming majority of users have no interest in how devices work or what applications are doing, as much as we ‘tech people’ would like it to be otherwise. What users want is to be productive, and they expect technology and policy to ensure that they are productive in a safe environment rather than harangued by lots of operating system noise.
The alert shown above illustrates the point. How informative would that really be to most users, who are unlikely to have even heard of System Events.app or understand the consequences adumbrated in the message text?
Critically, consent dialogs rely on the user making an immediate decision about security for which they are not sufficiently informed, at a time when it’s not convenient, and by an “actor” – the application that’s driving the alert and whose developer writes the alert message text – whose interests lie in the user choosing to allow.
As the user has opened the application with the intent to do something productive, their own interests lie in responding quickly and taking the path that will cause least further interruption. In that context, it seems that users are overwhelmingly likely to choose to allow the request regardless of whether that’s the most secure thing to do or not.
The urgency of time, the paucity of information and the combined interests of the user and the developer to get the app up and running conspire to make these kinds of controls a poor choice for a security mechanism. We talk a lot about “defense in depth”, but when a certain layer of that security posture relies on annoying users with numerous alerts, it could be argued that technology is failing the user. Security needs to be handled in a better way that leaves users to get on with their work and lets automated security solutions take care of the slog of deciding what’s malicious and what’s not.
If you are an enterprise invested in a Mac fleet, then upgrading to Catalina is a question of “when” rather than “if”. Given the massive changes presented by Catalina – from dropping support for 32-bit apps and compatibility issues with existing kernel extensions to new restrictions on critical business software like meeting apps and user consent alerts – there’s no doubt that that’s a decision not to be rushed into. Test your workflows, look at your current dependencies and roll out your upgrades with caution.
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Hello, thrill seekers. Looks like you’ve installed macOS Catalina knowing it’s not perfect and despite all warnings ended up here. You are not alone. We’ve rummaged through the internet and collected all macOS Catalina issues known to date. And boy, there’s a lot of wrongs to fix.
https://bestbfile523.weebly.com/blog/zumanity-las-vegas-review. You’ve unpacked the installer and now macOS Catalina install stuck on the initial reboot. All you can see is a black screen and even a hard reboot doesn’t help it. Though it’s perfectly normal for an installation to take some time (sometimes up to 10 hours), you can try a few workarounds.
Tip: Press Command + L in the middle of the macOS installation. You will see if it’s still active and the remaining time before completion.
It’s one of those last-ditch solutions that restore deep system settings including kernel information. It isn’t something you should be doing regularly but in our case, it’s worth trying.
How to reset PRAM
1.Shut down your computer
2. Press the Power key
3. Immediately press Command + Option + P + R keys
4. Hold down the keys until your Mac reboots
5. Let go of the keys
To reset SMC
1. Turn off your Mac
2. Hold down Control + Shift + Option and press power
3. Hold the buttons for 10-15 sec
4. Release the keys and restart your Mac
After you’re done, repeat macOS Catalina installation from scratch.
macOS Catalina takes up about 30 GB on your drive. That’s unprecedented in macOS history. When you see the 'macOS Catalina cannot be installed on Macintosh HD' message, this sometimes means that there is not enough disk space for the new macOS. Therefore, you need to free up some space on your Mac.
How to free up space? Move your largest files onto an external drive — will take you about 20 minutes. Or if it looks like too much fuss, free up your storage with CleanMyMac X. It’s a tool that is actually notarized by Apple (shouldn’t be confused with MacKeeper).
You’ll easily remove 7-10 GBs of system garbage. Then you can install macOS Catalina on a drive that’s clean and refreshed.
Here I’ve found a link to a free version of this app — enjoy.
So your installation has started but seems to be stuck on the initial screen. What can you do? If your patience has finally run out, it’s time for a mission abort.
This error usually appears when the download has finished. Apparently, it has something to do with cached content associated with your user account.
The first attempt to download Catalina would often return the same error. But don’t give up just yet! Try downloading Catalina once again — this time it will download it from the cached copy on your Mac which will take about 10-15 seconds. Now it should be ok.
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The situation looks like this: macOS Catalina has completed the install, and after you restart your Mac it is stuck on login screen. You see the progress bar but it isn’t going anywhere. What to do?
As one user pointed out, the problem may be caused by 3d party kernel extensions or kexts. They act as drivers — if you like a Windows analogy — and give access to your Mac’s hardware.
As a band-aid solution, you can relocate your /Library/Extensions kexts to a backup folder. As confirmed by many users, this fixes macOS Catalina stuck on reboot problem.
To perform this, you will need Terminal app:
Click Launchpad > Terminal
Now paste in the following command:
mkdir ~/Extensions-Backup && sudo mv /Library/Extensions/* ~/Extensions-Backup/
This command relocates your Library Extensions to the username/Extensions Backup folder. Later you can put the Extensions back where they belong at: /Library/Extensions.
One more solution to macOS Catalina freezing
Generally, Macs freeze when some process is hogging the memory. Some background plugin could be eating up all the available RAM. Here is the method I use to identify my background memory-hoggers.
To get a clear idea what it is, I use CleanMyMac X’s Speed utility.
You need to install CleanMyMac X — it’s available as a free version too.
Open the app, click “Optimization.”
This will give you an idea what Launch Agents are working in the background so you can isolate and disable them.
PS. Heavy consumers — this tab reveals processes that are critically memory-demanding.
This is one of the macOS Catalina problems that trails back to macOS Mojave. As you’ve probably heard, app architecture knows 2 types: 32-bit and 64-bit. The 32-bit apps will not be supported on macOS Catalina, period. Sadly, they are not just some lo-fi indie apps, we are talking Photoshop!
Did you know:Apple states that 64-bit apps use memory more effectively and so will work faster on your Mac.
There’s a quick way to count your potentially problematic applications.
To have a deeper look into your apps, where they come from, and how much space they are taking, run the Uninstaller tool in CleanMyMac X. Download this program here — it’s free to download.
Launch the app and click the Uninstaller tab 4k music youtube.
Here you can see your 32-bit apps and sort apps by “Last used.”
For example, I found a 32-bit video editor, which I didn’t realize was there, stealing away 600 MB of my space.
If a particular app stopped working on macOS Catalina, you can reset it with CleanMyMac. This operation doesn’t delete any user data and only restores it to the default state. In 9 out of 10 cases this helps solve syncing issues and sudden app freeze-ups.
Choose an app from the list in the Uninstaller (see screenshot above)
Now click on the drop-down menu under “Uninstall” button
Click on the Reset button that appears
In anticipation of various macOS Catalina issues, some developers have already optimized their programs for the new OS. Go to the developer’s site and download the latest available version.
Yes, I’ve already told you about CleanMyMac, but it appears to have just the right tool to handle macOS updates. It automatically updates every single app on your Mac. Though it may take some time, it’s a smart way to debug your macOS Catalina apps.
Once you get CleanMyMac X, click the Updater tab in the sidebar.
Click Select All above the app list.
Now, click Update.
Quite expectedly, some of the most reported issues on macOS Catalina are speed-related. Some background processes are hogging the CPU, most notably, the fileproviderd process. Thing is, macOS 10.15 Catalina heavily exchanges data with web-related processes, like cloud storages. There are countless rough edges to this process.
Here you’ll need to figure out what process is eating up the most resources. Watch out for the processes named mds and fileproviderd. If they take up 80-100% of CPU, try closing them using the [X] button above.
Browser extensions may be the culprit of many macOS Catalina issues. Leave the bare minimum of browser extensions and see how your Mac reacts.
This happens when Catalina is prompting you to update your Apple ID details. You’ve entered your password but the pop-up keeps coming back after some time.
Go to System Preferences > Internet Accounts > iCloud
Log in into your account and check the list of services that use iCloud.
Tick Keychain and enter your credentials.
Sidecar is a feature that doubles your workspace as you can use an iPad as a second monitor. The common issue here is inability to connect your iPad to the computer. First off, make sure you have iPadOS installed on your iPad. Then, find your Mac in the list of Sidecar-supported models:
If your Mac is pre-2015, there’s still a workaround to enable Sidecar.
Open Terminal and paste in the following command:
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Did it make the trick? Unfortunately, this combination is not guaranteed to work.
iCloud integration is one of those weak spots that produce tons of bugs. Fixes for such macOS Catalina problems are already on the way.
If you cannot download folders from iCloud, download each file individually. Unfortunately, this is the only available workaround at this point.
Did you know: Some part of your iCloud data is stored on both Google and Amazon data centers.
As of October 2019, this problem has too been widely reported. No matter how many times you’ve accepted the conditions, the legal disclaimer keeps coming up. It appears, that the problem occurs because you have more than just one device connected to iCloud.
You should see the Terms & Conditions pop-ups that is now in a pending state. Press Accept.
Repeat the procedure for all iCloud accounts and your devices you’ll see in the list.
The iTunes had been the centerpiece of music on macOS. With its removal things quickly went sideways. Since the arrival of the iTunes successor, Music app, many folks noticed their album artworks missing, Music Library freezing etc.
The typical case is your Mac says its “updating the Music Library”, spinning endlessly, without any progress. The issue is likely caused by obsolete Mojave caches and the remains your previous iTunes ecosystem.
And all music-related Library caches.
Don’t forget to put your music albums back where they had been before.
Wi-Fi not working after macOS Catalina update is pretty common. While your macOS is brand new, your Wi-Fi is still relying on some old protocols.
First, try to turn the Wi-Fi off and on again. If that doesn’t help you go to System Preferences > Network
Click on the dropdown menu that shows your Network.
Now, try choosing a different network — just to reset and shaken up the old settings
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Check all the networks in the list and click Remove.
This will make your Mac forget your old Wi-Fi stations and you’ll be able to reconnect again.
If your Bluetooth is not working on macOS Catalina, there’s one easy trick you can do. You should try deleting your Bluetooth.plist files. Don’t worry, it will auto-create a new copy of itself.
Now, look for a file com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
3. Delete it and restart your Mac.
There is a certain kind of Safari extensions, namely, .safariextz files that have been excluded from support in macOS Catalina. They no longer can be installed on Extensions page and are now considered “Legacy.”
RES, Ublock, and Bitwarden are some of the notable extensions that Safari users will miss on Catalina. What’s happening is Apple gradually moving away from the accepted web extensions format (WebExtensions) to the iOS-compatible extensions.
If you are missing your favorite ad blockers or other extensions, the easiest is to switch to a different browser. Microsoft office for mac 2016. There is also a possibility that the developers will overhaul their extensions to support Safari 13 but we all will have to wait until that happens.
So you’ve upgraded to macOS Catalina only to discover that a big chunk of free space is missing. Some identified folder is eating up your storage but how can you find it? The issue could be related to Time Machine backups and clones of APFS snapshots stored in different locations.
You can perform this operation safely in CleanMyMac X.
Download the app (a link to free edition) and launch it.
In CleanMyMac X:
Click the Maintenance tab
Choose “Time Machine snapshots thinning
As a manual solution, paste in the following commands in Terminal:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots / tmutil listlocalsnapshots /System/Volumes/Data
This lists the local snapshots created by your Time Machine. If you’re ready to delete those, type in this:
deletelocalsnapshots <snapshot_date> </snapshot_date> With iTunes being history now, its remnants keep chasing users from beyond the grave. Apparently, some DJ apps have been relying on a specific XML library file that’s now dead and gone with iTunes. The new Music app was supposed to provide a manual workaround, alas it didn’t. This seriously disrupts the DJ business on planet Earth — until Apple releases a fix in the next macOS Catalina update. The notable DJ apps affected by this are Traktor and Rekordbox. The issue has made the world news and was even covered by Forbes so the fix is hopefully, already in the works. The last-ditch option that’s left is to you is to downgrade to macOS Mojave so you can enjoy iTunes in its full glory again.Spectacle Mac Catalina Beach
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