Property inspector can not be used any more on mac

I cannot use the property inspector in figure any more after the macos update.

[Walter Roberson]

Is that on Catalina ?

[John D'Errico]

And what MATLAB release? R2019a or 2019b?

[Walter Roberson]

We can read off R2019b from the title bar.

[dongfei chen]

yes, it is on the macos Catalina version 10.15.

[Matteo Corno]

I can confirm I have the same problem. Catalina 10.15 and both matlab R2019a and R2019b.

[Juan Jurado]

I also have the same problem on R2019a, macOS Catalina 10.15.

[Jian-Jia Weng]

The same problem happens on R2019b, Catalina 10.15

[Jill Stewart]

I have the same problem - and hopeing for a fix soon!

[Brian Scannell]

I have the same problem - iMac with macOS Catalina 10.15.2 and Matlab R2019b Update 3. Very frustrating!

Answer 1

[Sourav Ghai]

You can try the following commands:

>> s = settings
>> s.matlab.web.LightweightBrowserDefaultType.PersonalValue = 'cef';

This is a workaround which can solve your problem.

[Matteo Corno]

Thanks, unfortunately the suggested workaround does not seem to work.

Please see the attached plot.

Is there any other possibility? I have a few paper submission deadline coming up...

Best regards

[Juan Jurado]

This workaround did not work for me either. Thanks for the help, but still no luck.

[Jian-Jia Weng]

did not work either

[Ding Cloud]

you have solved my problem, thank u!

[Gary Bikini]

This works for me. Thanks!

Catalina 10.15.2 & Matlab 2019b update 3.

[Steven Crawford]

Worked!!!

[Luca Pancioni]

Great! Solved. Matlab R2019b - Ubuntu 19.10

[Ruonan]

It worked.Thanks!

Answer 2

[Yi Peng]

I also have this problem, and my MacOS is Catalina 10.15.

Answer 3

[RUI WANG]

Who has any better idea because I found the same probem (Mac OS 10.15+ Matlab 2019a/b)?

Answer 4

[Petr Stepanov]

Hey guys,

Same problem here. MacOs Catalina, updated from 2019a to 2019b and still no property inspector....

Any solutions so far?

Thanks!

[Petr Stepanov]

Hey all,

I got it to work last night... basically, I saw a thread where people claim there might be a problem between MatLab and NVidia graphics cards. This made me think to try to switch between energy saving modes (like using both intel and NVidia GPU graphics power) to just power mode (just NVidia). You can find this in MacOs settings under “energy preferences” (little lamp bulb icon)...

Long story short, it somehow worked. I still have no idea how, since I switched to NVidia graphics card only and back...

Hopefully this helps you as well. Also, looks like it is only 15” MBP problem. I didn’t see others to complain about the same (correct me if I’m wrong)

Thanks all!

[Shane DiDona]

This changes nothing for me. I turned off graphics card switching, tried to close and reopen matlab, tried to reboot the laptop... No difference at all, the property inspector remains an empty window.

[Zachary Siegel]

This did not work for me. There is no "Energy Saving Modes" option on MacOS Catalina...

[Walter Roberson]

http://osxdaily.com/2017/01/08/disable-gpu-switching-macbook-pro/

Answer 5

[X.Z. Tan]

Known issue and that torture me too.

Recently, R2019b update 4 may fix this issue. Try to update.

Answer 6

[abdelbaset ait ben ahmed]

>> s = settings
>> s.matlab.web.LightweightBrowserDefaultType.PersonalValue = 'cef';

Try this commands, then, try to close and reopen Matlab. it's work perfectly for me:

macOS Big Sur, v 11.0.1

Matlab 2019b