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.
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