Android Studio 4.1.1 MacOS Big Sur Freezing Problem in Full Screen

 

Is your Android Studio 4.1.1 MacOS Big Sur freezing the android studio whenever the user opens the preferences tab or any other..

Are you facing this issue?

In this tutorial, we are going to solve a problem one of our members from the technical team had to encounter while working on this software

So the issue in android studio can occur either when you try to open preferences or trying to install a new plugin,  the window appears and freezes.

Installing Plugin on Android Studio

Now we will discuss what causes this

The error is caused in macOS Big Sur 11.2 where the Prefer tabs is set to the following option “always”  that causes all dialog windows to be opened as a windows tab which does not accept input.

The error not only exists with the android studio but also with all the other IDEs in which dialogs are displayed as tabs and the IDE becomes unresponsive.

To work around and prevent this issue, Follow the steps given below:

Here’s the fix

1- Go to System Preferences -> General

systempreference general

2-  Open the prefer tabs drop down & select “Never

Select Never in Prefer Tab

3-  Restart the android studio & try opening the tab again – it should open like this

windows open

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