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Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the heads-up dept.

rh2600 writes: Four days ago, Apple's latest macOS 10.13.4 update broke DisplayLink protocol support (perhaps permanently), turning what may be hundreds of thousands of external monitors connected to MacBook Pros via DisplayLink into paperweights. Some days in, DisplayLink has yet to announce any solution, and most worryingly there are indications that this is a permanent change to macOS moving forward. Mac Rumors is reporting that "users of the popular Mac desktop extension app Duet Display are being advised not to update to macOS 10.13.4, due to 'critical bugs' that prevent the software from communicating with connected iOS devices used as extra displays." Users of other desktop extensions apps like Air Display and iDisplay are also reporting incompatibility with the latest version of macOS.

7 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Rename the app? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    JustWontDuet
     
    Thanks, I'll be here all week!

  2. Buy Apple.. by Daemonik · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..It Just Works! So simple a grandmother can use it!

  3. Re: Why Apple gets away with this bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple should make their own voltage standard. It would be far superior to the crap we have now.

  4. Courage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only Apple has the courage to break shit for no reason, and their users love it.

  5. Re:This is why I run linux on my 2013 MacPro Deskt by Known+Nutter · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can you create paragraphs on your Linux MacPro desktop? Sure doesn't seem like it.

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  6. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just indicates that Apple is about to announce a new tethered monitor that Just Works... No need for that DisplayLink thing anymore - heck, it doesn't even work!

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  7. Re:Dead or just temporarily unusable? by Jahoda · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a "bit" overblown; it's pure hyperbole/clickbait. ... the issue is that the monitors will no longer work when they are connected through a third party peripheral with drivers that do some encapsulation....

    So, in other words, literally every single dock available for Macbook laptops (because apple do not make their own), and using the _universally_ supported DisplayLink protocol, which is the standard on every single USB 3.0, 3.1, and C dock used in the Windows world, as well. I gotcha. This is all just overblown and no big deal.