Apple is set to release macOS Monterey 12.1 to the general public in the near future, fixing several bugs Mac users have been experiencing for the past few weeks.
Apple's release notes suggest that it fixes a bug that causes the trackpad to become unresponsive to user presses or clicks. The Tap to Click error messages came after dozens of complaints online.
In addition, the new MacBook Pro 2021 models will experience an issue on YouTube that causes HDR content to crash, and a fix for this issue has appeared in macOS Monterey 12.1.
macOS Monterey 12.1 will fix these problems!
Additionally, users of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros also experienced an issue where charging would stop when the device lid was closed, which Apple appears to have fixed in an update.
macOS Monterey 12.1 also introduced a number of other bug fixes for an issue where the desktop and screensaver could be blank after selecting a photo of the user's choice from the library. Another issue was that external displays would not charge when connected to Thunderbolt or USB-C.
In other MacBook news, users are reporting slow transfer speeds and inaccessible files when using the SD card slot on the new MacBook Pro, which is not what you want after paying a decent amount for Apple's latest model .
As MacRumors points out, multiple reports online seem to point to a serious issue with the SD card reader on the new 14 16-inch and 2021-inch MacBook Pro models. There seems to be a lot of issues with different SD cards.
One user of a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip running the latest version of macOS describes it as a "super choppy" experience, with the machine taking about 1 minute to recognize the SD card and the device occasionally throwing a message about mistakes Another user says that the Finder crashes when the Mac tries to read the SD card.
A third user notes that formatting the SD card through the MacBook Pro in most cases does not solve the problem. Some users also confirm that the same SD card works when using a USB-C adapter.
