Crashing on Mac OS 15.6.1 when attempting to access various notes in sidebar

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Frequent crashing on Mac OS 15.6.1 when clicking on random notes in the sidebar. There does not seem to be a pattern as to which notes will cause the crash, but when it affects a particular note it continues to crash when trying to access it after restarting Bear. Thus, there are several notes that are currently not accessible.

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This was happening to me as well. I was running into a consistent bug on macOS (Mac Studio M1) since pre-OS26 updates. After updating to OS26, I’m no longer seeing crashes. I do have plenty of Apple crash reports saved though and have sent a few from Apple’s popup.

Previous Setup

  • macOS 15.6.1 (24G90)
    • Mac Studio M1
    • MacBook Pro M3
  • Bear macOS Version 2.6 (13715)
  • Bear iPadOS Version 2.6
    • iPad Pro M4

Previous Steps

  • Restarted devices. Updated apps. Nothing is on OS26 yet.
  • I started searching for older files. After clicking on them, macOS crashes. It happens every time. It was older notes containing PDF or images. Not all. Only some notes.
  • I can access the same files on the iPad without any issues. I tried pinning and updating the note on the iPad and then editing the updates on the Mac, still crashes on the Mac.
    • This happens on my Mac Studio M1. Not my MacBook Pro M3.

2025-09-18 - New Updates

  • I updated everything to OS26. Nothing is crashing anymore. Everything is working normal.
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Hello,

Please write to our customer support, attaching the latest Bear crashlog you can find in Console.app > Crash Reports. Right-click on the log and select Reveal in Finder to access the .ips or .crash file.

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Both of my Macs crash on any note that has a table with more than two columns beginning with Bear v. 2.5.2 and continuing on 2.6. I am still on Sequoia. I’m in contact with support, but you might try creating a new note, adding a table, and then adding a third column to see if that causes a crash, and/or accessing the notes in question on iOS or the web to see if find a similar pattern.

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Thanks, everyone! Appreciate the support.