Apples21 Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Anyone else having problems with photo on M1 Mac after upgrading to Monterey? I keep getting the spinning ball while saving my progress or applying adjustments. It appears to happen quite randomly. I'm on 1.10.4, and have 16gb ram on the M1 iMac. All the native apps work perfectly well. Having just moved from a 2011 iMac to this one, I've been really happy with how it's been performing, but this is a bit of a concern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted November 2, 2021 Staff Share Posted November 2, 2021 Hi @Apples21and Welcome to the Forums, No saving issues here on my 2019 iMac or M1 MacBook Air, both running Monterey. Do you have the Channels Panel in view when you get the beachball appear? If so, switch to another panel, like Transform and then try using the app again and see if you get the beachball. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apples21 Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 On 11/2/2021 at 12:37 PM, stokerg said: Hi @Apples21and Welcome to the Forums, No saving issues here on my 2019 iMac or M1 MacBook Air, both running Monterey. Do you have the Channels Panel in view when you get the beachball appear? If so, switch to another panel, like Transform and then try using the app again and see if you get the beachball. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did have the channels panel in view. I've switched to Navigator and will see how it goes. I've recently started using channels much more often, so if there's some sort of bug, I hope it can be addressed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apples21 Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Apples21 said: Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did have the channels panel in view. I've switched to Navigator and will see how it goes. I've recently started using channels much more often, so if there's some sort of bug, I hope it can be addressed! Unfortunately, after working on a photo this morning, I've found that even turning a layer on and off can result in the spinning ball. Affinity is running from the internal drive, although all my photos are saved externally on drives attached to a CalDigit hub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WN1X Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 You are not alone...my 2018 Mac Mini is showing similar issues. AP is taking significantly longer to start up. As a test, I started AP and once it was running, quit out of it and immediately restarted AP. What use to take 2-3 seconds now takes over 15 to complete. I see beachballs when trying to open existing documents--these are delays in viewing the file selector dialog box. - Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 You might try the recently released 1.10.5 Mac Beta of Photo. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WN1X Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 The beta version definitely fixes the document open slowness. And I think it has reduce the startup time slightly. It is still not pre-Monterey. - Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Buckle Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 I think I need the beta version then as the current version of Affinity Photo on Monterey M1 is basically unusable. Keep getting the spinning wheel, channel panel not displayed (even if no panels displayed), it has just become a super slow in most things. Wish I hadn't upgraded to Monterey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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