Several users who updated to macOS Monterey have said that Mail search is not working or the search results don’t appear as expected. You can search your emails to find a specific message in your inbox. On your Mac, you can do mail searchers in Mail or from the Spotlight app. In this article, I … Read more
I had an issue where the Messages app kept crashing when I opened it. Stacey and I wrote several articles on how you can fix various Monterey-related problems. From the users’ emails we get, it appears that many other users, who recently upgraded to macOS Monterey, are also experiencing this Messages issue. This is an … Read more
Some users are experiencing problems with their Magic Keyboard’s Touch ID after upgrading to macOS Monterey. It seems that for some users, their Touch ID doesn’t work when signing in to their Mac, and for others, their keyboards don’t work at all sometimes. Here is a description of the problem(s): On M1 iMacs and Mac … Read more
Several users have said that they see an error message saying “the package “%@” is missing or invalid. An error occurred while installing the selected updates” while attempting to upgrade to macOS Monterey. You can see the screenshot of the message below: This error message appears after the update is downloaded while your Mac is … Read more
Some Mac users have had trouble installing macOS Monterey. They receive the message “You Must Provide Authorization for this Volume by Setting it as your Startup Disk.” Some users have tried to then follow the instructions for setting up their startup disk, however, this hasn’t worked for everyone. In this article, we will tell you … Read more
Some users are experiencing iMovie issues after upgrading their computer to macOS Monterey. Some problems include: Unable to open iMovie. Unable to open or play projects. iMovie keeps showing “spinning beach ball loading” messages. Unable to save or export files. iMovie lags, freezes and runs very slowly. It seems that these problems started to occur … Read more
Several users have said that their Mac won’t turn on after installing macOS Monterey. Users have further said that, when they push the power button, nothing happens like no fans are running, no lights are blinking, the screen is black and the Mac seems dead. It appears that the Monterey update may brick some older … Read more
macOS Monterey is here and a lot of users want to install the newest Mac operating system. However, several users have reported that they are unable to install or update to macOS Monterey. The purpose of this article is to help you with fixing common Monterey install or update problems. You can run into various … Read more
Some users are finding that the contents of their emails are not displaying in Mail after upgrading to macOS Monterey. Users affected by this problem can see their email previews in the side bar and can see the email headers, but the body of the email is empty. Users are still able to see their … Read more
Many users will want to upgrade to the latest version of macOS, Monterey. Monterey is not as big of an upgrade as Big Sur, however. For most, the upgrade should go smoothly. In this article, we will go through which Macs will be able to upgrade, and how to proceed with the upgrade. What you … Read more