I just upgraded my MacOS to the 26.2 beta and Ofocus 4.8.5 crashes every time I open it. I submitted an a crash report to Omnifocus dev team.
I’m posting here in case any beta testers are experiencing the same.
PS. I’m also on Outliner and Graffle betas and there are able to launch fine with no issues.
UPDATE: I was able to get Omnifocus running after a clean removal and install. However it crashes more regularly than prior betas (ie. expanding note field)
NOTE: I am experiencing these issues on iOS and iPadOS 26.2 betas with Omnifocus Beta installed.
We’re not currently running an active TestFlight of OmniFocus, so the release build of 4.8.5 available through the App Store is newer than the test builds available in TestFlight. Can you check whether you’re still seeing issues in that final 4.8.5 release?
Thanks Ken. I just downloaded version 4.8.6 from the Omnigroup downloads website.
I am still experiencing frequent crashes. In this instance I was in Forecast view and clicked the note icon to expand it.
As I noted earlier this started occurring when I upgraded MacOS to 26.2 beta so I understand this my risk and issue. I’m raising here and in crash report to make you and other users aware.
Thanks for double-checking! We’ll dig into it and see if we can figure out what changed and why it would be crashing the app.
Thanks @kcase
Same here! Crashes almost instantly after launch. Have sent one report (seems unneccessary to send them all) via the built in crash detector email.
Please fix when you have the time. :)
I have the same problem. Now trying to re-install! And this time not the TestFlight version.
Re-installed from AppStore and it worked well! Sigh! (I’ve got my whole life organized in there)! Now a question: Should I stop using TestFlight versions while running OS public betas?
Now it crashes when I try to use the (i) inspector on the right side of the app.
I’m pretty certain it’s 26.2 beta doing this, rather than it being OmniFocus’ fault. Have sent a crash report in.
(This is not on my Production machine, which remains at 26.1.)
OmniFocus Web to the rescue!!!
I’ve never used it before today but it seems do just fine. Yes, I have OmniFocus on my iPhone and iPad but find it to hard to do anything major because of my big fingers… LOL
Hopefully the next beta from Apple will fix this problem…
Note to self: get off the beta rollercoaster… stick with the releases as you are NOT a developer testing out code.
Mark
We’ve tracked this down to a bug in the system frameworks in macOS 26.2 beta 1, and we’ve reported the bug to Apple. We also have a 4.8.7 test build available which works around the system bug. You can download it from:
Ken, thank you and the team for staying up all weekend and getting this out so quick!
Works great and fixes the Apple bug.
I did just signed up to the yearly OmniFocus Web subscription to support the Omni team.
Cheers,
Mark
Appreciating people probably worked the weekend to diagnose and circumvent this.
@kcase I just installed the 8.4.7 and I am now back up and running on my Mac.
I really am impressed you took the time and effort to address this so quickly. I did consider this an issue with Apple and my own preference to work with betas (and assume the risk).
Thank you!
I was also having the crashes on macOS 26.2 beta, and confirm that the test build seems to be working.
THANK YOU!
Apple appears to have fixed this crash with today’s release of macOS 26.2 beta 2, so it’s no longer necessary to use a test build of OmniFocus to solve this issue.
Some of us are nosy enough to want to know what the bug was.
Partly as software developers but also because it probably affected other apps.
The bug in beta 1 was that any asset catalog colors defined as controlAccentColor (for the macOS variant) were failing when the user had their Theme color in System Settings set to the default Multicolor option. Our workaround for the bug was to stop using an asset catalog to look up that color (as the color for links in notes).
