Reports are circulating that macOS Monterey is causing problems with a small quantity of upgraders and new MacBook Pro owners — but the issue appears to be less prevalent than in previous years, and there is a user-executable fix for most recent machines.
Apple’s macOS updates, especially new releases, contain one or more firmware updates to assorted chips in the Mac including GPU, storage, the T1 or T2 chips, and more. If interrupted, or if impacted by other factors, a firmware update can fail, and leave a machine in an unusable condition.
This has been happening off-and-on for years, and is most common with new macOS versions that launch in the fall.
Based on AppleInsider collated service data, the problem with Monterey to date is less prevalent than in previous years versus an equivalent time after release. It isn’t clear if macOS Monterey’s adoption rate is any different than other years, which could impact the estimate — but it would require half the rate of Monterey adoption versus Big Sur to make a swing to upgraders in 2021 being impacted at a higher rate than any OS of the last five years.
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