Since MacOS Catalina slow startup

[Michael_the_second]

Since Catalina and BigSur and now on Monterey the same old story, very slow startup on Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer an Affinity Publisher. Serif can you do better? Since almost 2 years the startup of this 3 apps is annoying. Other company as ON1 do better. So whats wrong Serif?

Best regards

Michael

[DEF13]

It's the same for me (MBP i9 2.4Ghz - RAM 64Go  / Radeon Pro 5500M 8Go). But it's only for the first startup of my work day, if I've to do a second startup during the same day, it's a little bit quickerIt's the same for me (MBP i9 2.4Ghz - RAM 64Go  / Radeon Pro 5500M 8Go). But it's only for the first startup of my work day, if I've to do a second startup during the same day, it's a little bit quicker …

[Dan C]

Our devs have previously confirmed this was due to an Apple security update, which seems to have unfortunately been 'carried through' to the latest macOS versions.

Apple changed the way their YARA malware scanning works and this causes issues with the Affinity app - we logged these issues directly with Apple support once the macOS security update was released, however unfortunately we're yet to receive any further word regarding this bug report.

We hope that Apple can provide a fix, or suggestions for how our devs can avoid this issue going forward.

My apologies for any inconveniences caused in the meantime!