Not content with playing havoc with USB hubs in some situations, it seems the newest replace for macOS Sonoma can be a troublemaker for printers, too.
Certainly, in response to numerous reviews on-line as flagged up by Apple Insider, the macOS Sonoma 14.4 replace is breaking printers in some instances. In different instances, there seems to be a extra restricted influence, in that the printer nonetheless works, however choosing web page sizes doesn’t.
It appears Sonoma 14.4 is both stripping out, or messing up, printer drivers in Apple’s operating system, rendering the gadgets non-functional, at the very least in the interim in lots of of those reported instances.
There are customers complaining about printer performance going very wonky on Reddit and Apple’s support forums – nevertheless, there does seem like an answer.
Specifically, as acknowledged within the above Apple publish, you have to head to System Settings, and ‘Privateness & Safety’ after which ‘Full Disk Entry’ to grant full disk entry to ‘com.microsoft.dlp’ – and which may kind the difficulty.
This isn’t assured, thoughts, however there are a variety of customers giving the thumbs-up and saying this transfer did get their printer (or printers) working in macOS once more.
Evaluation: A cocktail of doable causes?
Seemingly the difficulty pertains to Microsoft Defender (which is what the above disk entry change pertains to), and/or JAMF cellular gadget administration software program, and probably another components. It’s tough to know precisely what, however essentially the most distinguished commonality appears to be Defender.
The excellent news is that this doesn’t appear to be affecting too many macOS Sonoma 14.4 customers, as whereas there are a variety of reviews, they aren’t too widespread. And so they seem to narrate to explicit configurations, too, primarily in workplace situations.
On condition that, hopefully your common consumer at residence isn’t seeing this drawback – or solely in uncommon instances. Briefly, you’re in all probability fairly unfortunate for those who hit this snag outdoors of a enterprise community setting – however it appears that evidently there are remoted incidents of this occuring with particular person Macs.
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