General Concerns with Sonoma (macOS 14)

• Clicking on the desktop now makes the windows fly out of the way to reveal the desktop.

  • If you don’t like the new behavior, change it via System Settings → Desktop and Dock → Click wallpaper to show desktop items.

  • This feature is set to “always” upon installation/upgrade to Sonoma.

• If your background image was one of the previous OS default images, the background image may be changed to the new Aerial screensaver/background effect after upgrading.

• Video effects will be added to Zoom, WebEx, and FaceTime if you perform certain physical gestures like give a thumbs-up or make a peace sign. The effect may be unwarranted in certain video sessions, and you may want to disable them. To find out more and how to disable this feature, please reference: Use Reactions, Presenter Overlay, and other effects when videoconferencing on Mac - Apple Support

  • The “Presenter Overlay” does not work in Zoom at this time, pending an update from Zoom

• There have been some reports of the clock being offset after upgrading to Sonoma (possibly only on intel macs). This is due to be fixed in 14.2, but the workaround for now is to run this terminal command and then reboot:

  • sudo rm /var/db/timed/com.apple.timed.plist

Applications

As of November 2023

Atlas.ti 9.1.3

• Crashes on launch

• Atlas.ti 23 works, but is not licensed by ITAM at this time

Respondus Lockdown Browser 2.1.1 build 7347

• Crashes on launch

  • Vendor is aware and will have an update soon

Specify 6.8.0

• Crashes on launch

Final Cut Plug-Ins

• Certain audio plugins are incompatible, including Exponential Audio (Nimbus and R4), iZotope (Neutron 3 and Neutron 3 Gate), Reverb Foundry (M7 Link), Sennheiser (AMBEO Orbit), Soundfield Limited (SurroundZone2)

  • This was also the case on Ventura; we will no longer report on this defect going forward.