Anki broke w/ 2.1.54 update on Mac

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After being prompted to do so, I just updated to Anki Desktop 2.1.54 on Mac. (intel qt-6) I have no add-ons.

Now, I cannot click on anything within the Anki Desktop main window. (for example, I can’t click browse, search, the deck name, … or anything) The app simply doesn’t recognize clicks.

The app is now completely useless.

Is there a link to a downgrade available?

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Update: i found the downgrade link and am back functioning… But the update is unusable for me

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You could try changing your video driver, or try the -qt5 version.

https://docs.ankiweb.net/platform/windows/display-issues.html#qt6

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Thanks for the link, but those instructions don’t seem applicable to Mac, sadly. I publish a shared deck, so I want to stay on a version (non-tech) people can actually use.

At the moment, my recommendation to mac users would be not to upgrade.

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They are targeted to a Windows audience, but can be applied to Mac too. Here is the mac version.

Most people don’t have this kind of issues, and generally you should publish decks for the latest available version of Anki (which most users should have, even though most users don’t update Anki often enough to always have the latest version). Besides, decks are not that much version specific. If you downgrade to, say, 2.1.49, your decks should be usable by everybody, no matter their version.

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Thanks for the mac link I may try it out - but it’s working on the previous version.

If you downgrade to, say, 2.1.49, your decks should be usable by everybody, no matter their version.

Yes, and that’s what I’ve had to do. But the users of my deck will certainly message me for tech support when the new mac version doesn’t work for them. I’m not going to try and support that - my advice to them will be don’t upgrade until the downloadable version works.