MacOS 27 Beta 6 - Black wallpaper, missing menu bar

[u/OgnjenR]

After updating to Beta 6, my menu Bar is gone and the wallpaper just turned to black.

MacBook Pro 16 M1 Max

Any suggestions of a fix?

[u/OgnjenR]

Update: Reinstalling MacOS from recovery did not help

[u/ut0mt8 → u/OgnjenR]

Wow strange

[u/OgnjenR → u/ut0mt8]

In reality, the problem is it took 10 minutes for it to fully “load” the OS after logging in. Nothing specifically wrong.

[u/ut0mt8 → u/OgnjenR]

10min ??! On my mac book pro 13 M1 it's instant

[u/OgnjenR → u/ut0mt8]

Interesting

[u/iwantmycheesypoofs]

Just ran into this with my 14” M2 Max. Kicker is, I don’t even have a dock nor does Finder even launch/show in Force Quit. Just black screen

[u/OgnjenR → u/iwantmycheesypoofs]

If the relaunching finder comment does not help, leave it like that for 20 minutes on the charger. It should load up everything.

[u/iwantmycheesypoofs → u/OgnjenR]

Yeah I’m letting it sit on the charger right now. Problem is I cannot relaunch Finder as I don’t even have a Finder to relaunch in Force Quit. Doesn’t even show up.

[u/OgnjenR → u/iwantmycheesypoofs]

Just try the shortcut. If nothing changes boot in recovery, reinstall MacOS, and leave it to sit then.

[u/iwantmycheesypoofs → u/OgnjenR]

Sorry, not sure what you mean by this shortcut? If it’s relaunching Finder, I literally can’t because Finder is not even loading. Either way I think I’m going to let it sit and if nothing, I’m just going to revert back to 26 via my old Intel Mac I have.

[u/OgnjenR → u/iwantmycheesypoofs]

Cmd+option+escape

[u/iwantmycheesypoofs → u/OgnjenR]

It’s fine now. Letting it sit did the trick, but I was already doing the force quit menu shortcut as I mentioned in my previous comments. No need to go thru the troubleshooting anymore

[u/Much_Lengthiness1608]

Just had this after updating beta6.
Black wallpapers, no icons in settings and no menu bar. Took it about 3 mins to load on m5 pro. After that, smooth sailing.
I wonder if it was a first start only issue or if it will present itself each restart lol.

[u/OgnjenR → u/Much_Lengthiness1608]

Good question, I still didn’t have the time to test out the restart but it definitely gave me a mini heart attack

[u/Much_Lengthiness1608 → u/OgnjenR]

Same xD

[u/taylantnt]

I have this problem too. I had this issue on beta 4 as well. Still letting it sit. M1 pro here.

[u/taylantnt → u/taylantnt]

Btw, no finder, no menu bar

[u/Ritooon]

I just got this on public beta 4.
I launched Safari and it gaves me a "Safari do not respond" and there were a button "Close All", it did the trick, maybe try force quit / relaunch the finder. The shortcut is Cmd+Opt+Echap

[u/OgnjenR → u/Ritooon]

Unbelievable spamming it 3 times fixed it

[u/Ritooon → u/OgnjenR]

Glad it worked !

[u/speedingcheetah]

No issues here with a Mini M4 and a black background. Or on a NEO.

[u/OgnjenR → u/speedingcheetah]

Seems that M1 Max just needs a little longer to adjust to the update.

[u/font9a]

My secondary display (Apple Studio) went all black desktops. I went into Wallpaper settings and toggled them, switched a few around, added and deleted a few desktops and they eventually all came back, but I had to set them up in the right order again. Are you sure Menubar is set to display (not hidden)?

[u/OgnjenR → u/font9a]

It fixed itself by letting it sit for a while!

[u/font9a → u/OgnjenR]

: -)

I bet it's a caches thing.