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Apple M4 Mac: Recurrent login issues, screen goes black after password

I have had recurrent problems of not being to log in from my login screen (there are several accounts on my computer). After entering the password, the screen goes black and then pops back to the login screen. The support robot suggested it might have something to do with the login items. The only one that had active was Google Drive. Has anyone else had issues with Google Drive, or with login problems?


I am running Tahoe 26.7 on an Apple M4 Mac.

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Mikelis Bickis wrote:
I have had recurrent problems of not being to log in from my login screen (there are several accounts on my computer). After entering the password, the screen goes black and then pops back to the login screen. The support robot suggested it might have something to do with the login items. The only one that had active was Google Drive. Has anyone else had issues with Google Drive, or with login problems?
I am running Tahoe 26.7 on an Apple M4 Mac.


Simple enough to remove GoogleDrive from your login items and compare your results...(?)


A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.



The current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.7.1

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