When trying to open the Minecraft Launcher on macOS Tahoe 26 (Apple M1), the icon bounces in the dock, then the app becomes “Not Responding” and never fully opens.
I verified app files and code signature with codesign.
Ran the launcher from Terminal with output redirected; no error messages appeared.
Checked linked libraries with otool -L; no missing dependencies found.
Removed quarantine attributes using xattr.
Issue persists after fresh macOS and Minecraft reinstall.
Launcher shows 0% CPU and does not crash, just hangs silently.
Manually going into the files and launching Minecraft Updater results in the update line stuck for hours and “Field”.
This is a continuation of MCL-25845 — issue was marked as resolved when the launcher briefly worked for a day, but the bug has returned with identical symptoms. Logs and behavior attached.
Issue has been going on since macOS 26.0, and macOS 26.0.1 has not fixed anything as I tried for multiple days but it didn’t work. Yesterday, it suddenly worked and it finally installed itself, then it worked perfectly fine until just about a few hours ago, where it went into NOT RESPONDING again after bouncing for a while, then completely broke just like before, same symptoms.
First and most recent launcher logs and native updater logs have also been attached below.
Environment
Device: MacBook Pro with Apple M1 chip
OS: macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 (latest build as of report: 25A362)
Minecraft Launcher: Latest official version downloaded 2025
No additional third-party software installed
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Tried starting it a while ago. It did start downloading, first it said “downloading update files”, then got stuck 4/5th of the way and then it said downloading bootstrap files or something, same thing, stuck 4/5th of the way, then went into “cannot download update files”. Now it’s completely broken again and just says “field”. These are the logs.
Try opening it via Terminal to see error logs (this functionality is one of the reasons macOS is great).
Press the command key and click the Minecraft app in dock to show the .app “file“ in its directory.
Open Terminal
In Terminal, type “open ”(without quotes and with a space after the word) and then drag the Minecraft app into the Terminal.
Hit enter to run the Minecraft Launcher.
Use command+s to save the output and post it here so we know what the error is.
BTW, a .app “file” is actually a directory!
Sorry, disreagard part of my prior comment.
Step 2 and 3 are wrong.
Instead, right click (or control-click) the Minecraft.app “file“ and click “Show Package Contents“, then open the “Contents” and “MacOS” folders and double-click “launcher“.
A Terminal window should pop up and Minecraft should open.
After opening the launcher from the terminal in the MacOS folder, these are the results.
I ran the launcher, from the folder. It launched, and started updating and gave the logs shown above. Then as soon as it’s almost at the end, it says “Unable to update the bootstrap.” After this, the launcher got deleted by itself from the MacOS folder.
I then proceeded to download a completely new installer, and the same stuff shown above happened with that installer as well.
NEW UPDATE: THE LAUNCHER WORKS
Tried Re-installing for a second time. This time I copied an extra backup of the launcher file to a folder on my desktop incase it breaks again. Then I tried launching it from the MacOS folder.
This time, however, it slowly updated as usual, closed, then the Minecraft Launcher opened.
Thanks you so much, Langdon. Great work Langdon.
(ISSUE IS FIXED)
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