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users logging into black screens with Jamf Connect

  • August 18, 2025
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cgeorge
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We have a few iMacs running Sequoia 15.5 and Jamf Connect that are going to black screens after you log in. Both local user accounts and IdP accounts are affected, but I can see the user folder is being created when we log in against our IdP, I get the account creation message but it just hangs on the black screen. Local admin account is having the same problem. I’ve tried uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling Jamf Connect, but the problem persists. Uninstalling and logging in as a local admin user causes a beach ball to spin, but it sits there and doesn’t not progress. I’ve checked the config profiles and license and they’re all valid, and this isn’t happening fleet wide, just randomly.

if I create a new user through Jamf, the user will create, but I can’t log into that account, it immediately dumps me back to the JC login window without any feedback. I can see the new user’s account by running dscl . -list /Users UniqueID but it still hangs. Resetting authchanger doesn’t help either.

I’ve seen a similar problem where it’ll hang on a black screen when a user has an account in the system, but their /Users/ folder is empty. This isn’t the case now, as the local admins have a populated folder, and the IdP users don’t have a folder at all when I attempt to log them in the first time.

Any ideas? I’m in the process of reprovisioning one of them as test to see if it’s a computer issue.

 

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  • November 3, 2025

We are having this same issue on a few systems. Were you able to get this resolved?


cgeorge
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  • November 3, 2025

I did open a ticket with Jamf, and their advice was to wipe and reprovision. So, now we just wipe and reprovision when we encounter it.


usernameman26
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  • December 9, 2025

I did open a ticket with Jamf, and their advice was to wipe and reprovision. So, now we just wipe and reprovision when we encounter it.

Hi, Im having same issue, did you fully wipe and DFU restore/releasing and re-assign from ABM to “reprovision”? Not sure how you're bypassing it this way


cgeorge
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  • December 9, 2025

Wiping and installing to 26.1 has fixed it for us. On some machines, just upgrading the OS didn’t work, so we decided to wipe and install 26.1. 


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  • January 26, 2026

I am still having this issue with 26.2. Has anyone found a better solution than wiping and re-enrolling?


cgeorge
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  • January 26, 2026

yeah, the problem came back for us, we’re on 26.1 and 26.2 now. some labs have it happen frequently, while others don’t have a problem at all. They’re all configured identical too, just different M* iMac models in some labs.


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  • May 21, 2026

I have several Apple Studio computers in a university setting where users login using Jamf Connect and after they login there is a black screen with a curser that never resolves.  Sometimes I can restart the computer and login as another user - but sometimes all users get the black screen with curser.  Is there a way to check the logs with terminal on a computer that won’t login?  I need to see what is causing this so students can use these resources.  Thanks Doug

OS 26.4  Jamf Connect version 3.7.0


cgeorge
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  • May 21, 2026

I have several Apple Studio computers in a university setting where users login using Jamf Connect and after they login there is a black screen with a curser that never resolves.  Sometimes I can restart the computer and login as another user - but sometimes all users get the black screen with curser.  Is there a way to check the logs with terminal on a computer that won’t login?  I need to see what is causing this so students can use these resources.  Thanks Doug

OS 26.4  Jamf Connect version 3.7.0

 

We never got the problem identified, let alone fixed. Eventually we gave up on Jamf Connect and went back to AD binding as a bandaid, and we’ll be moving to Apple PSSO this summer.


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  • June 8, 2026

We have several hundred computers that are/were bound to AD for student logins in classrooms.  As soon as Sequoia dropped we started seeing random beachballs right after the user hit the enter button after entering their credentials.  Machines once in this state would need to be rebuilt.  I kept a bunch of labs on Sonoma.  Never occurred once on Sonoma machines.  We got a couple a week with the login beachball in Sequoia and Tahoe labs.  This spring I started doing testing in a couple labs with PSSO with Entra for the idp.   Initially it looked good but then after a couple weeks we staring getting similar lockups at the login window.  Sometimes a reboot would fix it sometimes the machines would need to be rebuilt.  I decided to fallback to JAMF Connect at the login window.  It also looked really promising at first.  Now we are seeing this login to black screen with cursor issue on a couple machines.  I think Apple broke something staring with Sequoia.


cgeorge
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  • June 8, 2026

We have several hundred computers that are/were bound to AD for student logins in classrooms.  As soon as Sequoia dropped we started seeing random beachballs right after the user hit the enter button after entering their credentials.  Machines once in this state would need to be rebuilt.  I kept a bunch of labs on Sonoma.  Never occurred once on Sonoma machines.  We got a couple a week with the login beachball in Sequoia and Tahoe labs.  This spring I started doing testing in a couple labs with PSSO with Entra for the idp.   Initially it looked good but then after a couple weeks we staring getting similar lockups at the login window.  Sometimes a reboot would fix it sometimes the machines would need to be rebuilt.  I decided to fallback to JAMF Connect at the login window.  It also looked really promising at first.  Now we are seeing this login to black screen with cursor issue on a couple machines.  I think Apple broke something staring with Sequoia.

I don’t want to hear that PSSO is having the same problems, we’re in the middle of moving to it right now.