New MacBook Pro owners are complaining about SD card issues. Apple promises to fix everything, but it's not clear how

By: Elena Shcherban | 07.12.2021, 19:01

This year, along with the release of new MacBook Pro Apple returned the card reader to laptops. However, there are more and more messages on the forums that users are having problems with the reader. SD card...

What's the matter?

According to complaints on the MacRumors forum, some laptops are too slow to transfer files, some SD Cards can randomly disappear from the system, for some Finder crashes when the gadget tries to read the map.

“This is very unpleasant. I was hoping import from SD Cardsincluding preview images will be fast on my new 14-inch MBP. I have a pretty new one SD card at 64GB which worked fine. But previewing a photo takes minutes and sometimes crashes halfway. Sometimes Finder crashes too, ”says one user.

At the same time, the problem does not arise for everyone and is not related to some certain cards, as users have already tried different memory cards in different formats. In some cases, the solution to the problem is to use an adapter with USB-C for SD card...

Customers who have contacted Apple have been told that the company is aware of the issue and will fix it in a future update, but it is unclear if this is a hardware or software issue. Some people simply replaced their MacBook Pro with a new one and did not face this problem again.

A source: MacRumors