What's new in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.16
Sep 7, 2023
- MacBook Air 15" and Mac Studio 2013 support #688
- Added CPU Core Average temperature sensor on MacBook Pro M2 #687
- Fixed memory leaks on Apple Silicon macs #214
- Fixed temperature display readings freeze on some older MacBookAir laptops #682
- Fixed missing Performance Core 3 on Macmini M2 #672
- Multiple small improvements and fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.14 (Dec 2, 2022)
- Macbook Pro and MacBook Air M2 #621
- More secure helper tool to avoid possible abuse of SMC interface by malware apps #601
- Display 'Mainboard' sensor for MacBookPro6,1 and MacBookPro6,2 #647
- Improved Windows 10/11 dark mode support #639
- Arabic, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish translations update
- Fixed update checker when the app was not in /Applications #616
- Fixed working with the app when it's used by multiple users #619
- Fixed update check on macOS 10.8/10.9/10.10/10.11 #623
- Automatic update: fixed lost custom presets #543
- Fixed loosing of custom presets after reboot under certain conditions #389
- Latest SMC initialize error after Boot Camp drivers update #585
- Fixed row height in fans/sensors table on Retina displays in Windows #640
- Fixed window text being unreadable when using external display under certain conditions #577
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.13 (Jun 20, 2022)
- Enable optional dock icon (can be turned on/off in preferences) #520
- Remove 'always on top' behaviour #343
- Simplify sharing technical info & screenshot from the app #604
- Portuguese, Czech, Japanese and Korean translations update
- Fixed regression bug with fan spinning in sleep mode on some iMac models #594
- Fixed crash on macOS 10.13 when clicking the menu bar icon #603
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.12 (Apr 4, 2022)
- Mac Studio 2022 support
- (m1 pro) Computer won't enter sleep with fan on #568
- Improved macOS Monterey compatibility
- Dutch, French, Chinese (Simplified) translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.11 (Nov 16, 2021)
- Added full support for latest 14” and 16” M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro (2021) #550
- Compatibility with Windows 11 #530
- Faster startup speed on Windows (specially with T2 chips) #549
- Fixed menubar icon not saving its position in macOS Big Sur/Monterey #555
- Fixed app being blocked on Windows by some 3rd party gaming anti-cheat programs (Vanguard and Faceit Anti-Cheat) #325 #350
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.10 (Oct 8, 2021)
- Improved:
- Uninstall the app completely including the fan helper tool via the More -> Uninstall command #492
- The app now used more efficient XZ format for performing future updates which is about 33% smaller #539
- Added a warning message for macOS 10.7 to notify user that update is possible only manually #239
- Improved Windows setup experience
- Fixed:
- Fixed app stopped responding after macOS Big Sur upgrade (Apple Silicon) #500
- Fixed text being cut off in macOS Big Sur menubar #502
- Fixed app unable to quit from the full screen mode #506
- Fixed eGPU temperature sensor display even when turned eGPU option was off in Preferences #508
- Fixed temperature readings freeze on MacBookPro12,1 when working on battery #433
- Fixed not showing of SMC temperature sensors on Hackintosh #448
- Fixed preventing of ejectction of connected USB drives on Windows #473
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.9 (Apr 15, 2021)
- Added full support for Apple Silicon Macs (MacBook Air/Pro and new Mac mini) #435
- Main download is now for macOS 10.13 and higher including Big Sur and Apple Silicon support. Macs Fan Control for macOS 10.12 (and below) is now a separate download. More info
- German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Thai, Ukrainian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Turkish, Catalan, translations update
- Fixed restoring of menubar icon position once it's changed by a user #430
- Fixed menubar display under macOS Big Sur #408
- Fixed a memory leak which could cause app memory usage steadily increase over time #214
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.8.1 (Oct 5, 2020)
- Fixed reading of GPU temperatures #400
- Fixed missing GPU Proximity / Heatsink sensors on some Mac models
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.8 (Sep 25, 2020)
- Display temperature of discrete GPU (eGPU) #209
- New app icon to match new macOS Big Sur style #397
- New virtual temperature sensor CPU Core (average) #235
- Improved switching between presets from menubar #281
- Inverted menu bar icon for macOS night mode #365
- Improved preferences window
- Support of iMac 2020 27" 5k #382
- Improve warning message on computers without fans #309
- Fixed issue when the app didn't always restore automatic fan control upon computer restart #387
- Fixed UI glitch allowing setting of max temperature below min value when setting up sensor-based control #320
- Fixed crash on some Hackintosh machines #324
- Fixed displaying of temperatures of multiple drives with the same model on classic MacPro5,1 #246
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.7 (May 29, 2020)
- Improved Tip on explaining how to create a new custom fan preset the first time #311
- Improved Windows: dark mode support #299
- Improved Swedish, Turkish translations update
- Fixed Fixed number of reported fans on XServe hardware #314
- Fixed Fixed custom presets disappearing on Windows after reboot #321
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.6 (Mar 27, 2020)
- New: Windows: the app now works in Windows 10 on iMac Pro (2017) and Mac Pro (2019) #262
- Improved: Added Mac Pro 2019 fan names
- Fixed: Fixed unresponsive modal dialog(s) in certain scenarios after opening other dialogs from the menubar #297
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.5 (Mar 16, 2020)
- Improved Windows: option to ignore wrong hardware and silently close #283
- Fixed Fixed crash on some machines under macOS Catalina #249
- Fixed Fixed menubar icon display after automatic switch from/to dark theme under macOS Catalina #271
- Fixed Windows: fixed crash while updating the app in certain scenarios
- Fixed Windows: fixed innecessary warning of potential BSOD #268
- Fixed Windows: fixed setup when user name contains spaces #265
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.4 (Jan 13, 2020)
- New:
- The app now works in Windows 10 also on modern computers that have the T2 security chip.
- Fixed:
- Fixed setting same manual fan RPM twice in a row after going back to Auto #211
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.3 (Dec 4, 2019)
- Improved: Spanish, French, Ukrainian translations update
- Fixed: Fixed crash when disconnecting external monitors #238
- Fixed: Fixed menubar appearance in macOS Catalina with automatic light/dark mode switch preference
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.2 (Nov 26, 2019)
- Fixed: The main download is now again compatible with macOS 10.12 and later #211
- Fixed: Fixed menubar display in macOS 10.7 Lion #236
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5.1 (Nov 9, 2019)
- Improved: Better support of MacBookAir 2019 and MacBookPro 2019
- Better readability of the menubar icon text
- CPU usage improvements
- Notarized for macOS 10.15 Catalina.
- Detection and solving of situation when the helper tool couldn't be installed #226
- Fixed: Fixed menubar not getting grayed out when switching between monitors
- Fixed menubar display after automatic switch of dark/light theme in macOS Catalina
- Minor improvements, fixed couple of memory leaks
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.5 (Sep 23, 2019)
- New New helper tool that must improve CPU usage and stability.
- New Fan presets (only in Pro version, #176)
- New Dark mode support in macOS Mojave #117
- New New improved Preferences dialog
- New Display connected NVMe drives temperatures
- New New option in preferences to enable/disable reading of connected SMART and/or NVMe drives temperatures.
- Improved Support of Little Snitch Internet Access Policy
- Improved Better support of Macmini and MacBookAir 2018
- Fixed Fixed detection and displaying of CPU cores on different machines
- Fixed Fixed random crashes #122
- Fixed Fixed autostart setting re-enabling itself every time on Windows. #169
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.12 (Sep 20, 2018)
- Better support of the latest MacBook Pro 2018 models
- Improved Added displaying of SSD temperature on MacBook Pro 2017-2018
- Improved Turn on/off default app behavior to check for updates on startup (in the Preferences dialog)
- Fixed Fixed moving the app itself to the Applications folder on the first start
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.11 (Sep 2, 2018)
- IMPROVED:
- Translations update
- FIXED:
- Improved compatibility with MacBook Pro 2018
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.10 (Mar 5, 2018)
- New:
- iMac Pro support (only on macOS, not Boot Camp)
- Improved:
- Optimized CPU usage
- Better hiDPI support on Windows
- Translations update
- Fixed:
- Fixed MacBookPro13,3 fixed CPU Core numeration
- Fixed centering of menubar icon
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.9 (Dec 19, 2017)
- Improved:
- Optimized CPU usage and startup time
- Qt framework is updated to 5.6.3 version
- Checking for updates using HTTPS
- Minor small improvements
- Translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.8.1 (Jun 7, 2017)
- Improved:
- Ukranian translation
- Fixed:
- Fixed compatibility with macOS 10.13 beta (High Sierra)
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.8 (May 30, 2017)
- Improved:
- Correct behavior when no fans are detected
- Fixed:
- Fixed multiple issues in the updater dialog
- Minor small fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.7 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Fixed:
- Fixed maxing out fans on iMacs when switching between users or shutdown/restart
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.6 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Fixed:
- Fixed multiple issues with the previous update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.5 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Restore automatic fan control after the app quits
- The app binary is now 64-bit on macOS
- =Added 'Expansion Slots' sensor on MacPro1,1, MacPro2,1, MacPro3,1
- Fixed:
- Fixed CPU sensors naming on MacBookPro11,5
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.4 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Improved compatibility with macOS Sierra
- Fixed:
- Fixed incorrect display of fans RPMs and disappearing of temperature sensors
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.3 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Polish, French, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazilian) translations update
- Fixed:
- fixed compatibility with Windows XP
- fixed 'unsuported hardware detected' error
- fixed crash on startup on certain hardware
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.2 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- French translation update
- Fixed:
- IMPORTANT: if you get 'Error extracting update' please update the app manually. Apologies
- Fixed problem with broken menubar icon preferences
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.1 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Fan & sensor table width now can be changed with a splitter between them
- Removed warning when running under VMware (no warning) on Windows
- Qt framework is updated to 5.6.0 version
- Fixed:
- Fixed detecting of apple hardware under Windows
- Fixed digital signature for the setup file under Windows 10
- Small improvements and fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.4.0 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Major improvements on sensors support on most mac models (including iMac5k and Mac Pro 2013)
- Temperature and fan speed are now displayed using single line in the menu bar (old two lines mode can be turned on in Preferences)
- Improved menu bar popup menu (tray menu on Windows)
- The app can now move itself to the /Applications when it's first run from the other directory
- Lots of small fixes and improvements to improve usability and stability of the app
- Added ability to rate the app at Macupdate to help us improve MFC
- Fixed:
- Fixed automatic update of the app on Mac
- Fixed bug with detection of old hardware after transfering system to another hardware
- Fixed problem with missing menu bar icon under El Capitan with auto-hide menu bar option on
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.3.3 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Improved:
- Better OS X El Capitan compatibility
- Lithuanian and Thai translations, other translations update
- Qt framework is updated to 5.5.1 version
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.3.2 (Mar 1, 2017)
- Fixed compatibility with OS X 10.11 El Capitan
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.3.1 (Aug 31, 2015)
- IMPROVED Windows 10 support
- FIXED Windows: fixed 'unsupported hardware detected' error
- IMPROVED Qt framework is updated to 5.5.0 version
- IMPROVED Polish and Vietnamese translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.3.0 (May 22, 2015)
- IMPROVED: Optimized reading of temperature of internal Apple SSD (retina MacBooks, MacPro6,1, iMacs)
- IMPROVED: HDD Proximity sensor for some iMac models
- IMPROVED: Support of 2 GPU cards on MacPro6,1 (late 2013)
- IMPROVED: Grayed out temperatures after restoring from menu bar until the are updated
- IMPROVED: Detect when running in Paralells virtual machine (displays warning)
- IMPROVED: New refactored menu bar icon code (tray icon on Windows)
- IMPROVED: Qt framework updated to 5.4.1 version
- IMPROVED: Slovak and Chinese translations update
- FIXED: Fixed reading of Ambient temperature on iMac13,2 and iMac14,1
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.2.1 (Feb 16, 2015)
- IMPROVED: Hi-dpi screen mode support on Windows (125%, 150%, etc)
- FIXED: Fixed wrong CPU temperature readings on MacPro1,1
- IMPROVED: Portuguese and Czech translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.2.0 (Feb 12, 2015)
- NEW: New preferences dialog
- IMPROVED: Improved user interface of fans list
- IMPROVED: Optimized CPU usage
- FIXED: Exclude displaying of external USB drives on Mac
- FIXED: Fixed calculating of temperature on Mac Pros for CPU A(B) core sensors
- FIXED: Fixed fine-tuning of sensor-based mode in Fahrenheit
- IMPROVED: Added CPU A(B) Temperature Diode sensor for Mac Pro
- IMPROVED: Icon for GPU related sensors
- IMPROVED: More technical information that can copied for diagnostics (see Preferences)
- FIXED: Fixed display value of Ambient sensor on iMac14,2
- FIXED: Fixed error message (initializing SMC) under Windows automatic startup
- IMPROVED: Bulgarian and Hungarian translations
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.12.3 (Dec 2, 2014)
- FIXED: Fixed updater
- IMPROVED: Moved to Visual C++ 2013 and Qt 5.3.2 on Windows
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.12.2 (Sep 8, 2014)
- IMPROVED: Small improvements in user interface
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.12.1 (Jul 23, 2014)
- FIXED Regression fix: rare crash on startup
- IMPROVED Added PECI GPU sensor for macs with integrated graphics
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.12 (Jul 22, 2014)
- IMPROVED Improved sensor-based mode by handling sleep/wake-up notifications
- IMPROVED Mac: significant increase of startup speed
- IMPROVED Mac: improved accessibility for users using VoiceOver
- FIXED Windows: fixed rare crash when restoring the app from system tray
- FIXED Windows: fixed autostart when MacBook Pro is running on battery
- FIXED Windows: fixed issue preventing MFC running on some macs under Windows (MacBookPro5,1)
- IMPROVED Vietnamise, Korean, Portuguese and Persian translations update
- IMPROVED /log parameter to activate logging
- IMPROVED Qt framework updated to 5.3.1 version
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.11 (May 5, 2014)
- FIXED:
- Fixed incorrect calculation and display of min/max fan speed (was not enough accurate, e.g. 1793 instead of 1800)
- IMPROVED:
- Croatian, German and Slovak translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.10 (Apr 4, 2014)
- IMPROVED:
- PSU (Power Supply Unit) sensor icon, minor optimizations and improvements
- Czech, Chinese and Korean translations update
- FIXED:
- Windows: fixed auto-start on Windows 7 when UAC is enabled
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.9 (Mar 22, 2014)
- IMPROVED:
- Qt framework updated to 5.2.1 version
- NEW:
- Norwegian translation, other translations update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.8.1 (Jan 30, 2014)
- FIXED:
- Fixed crash on some Mac systems with accessibility options (problem in Qt 5.2.0)
- IMPROVED:
- French translation update
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.8 (Jan 30, 2014)
- NEW:
- Check for new versions with automatic (Sparkle-like framework) update. Beta!
- Slovenian translation
- FIXED:
- Sensor-based control: fixed issue with restoring control after waking from sleep
- Fixed a rare hang when switching fan mode from menubar (tray icon on Windows) popup menu
- IMPROVED:
- The app finally switched from Qt 4.8.5 to Qt 5.2.0 framework (latest version)
- Optimized threads responsiveness and the way the app quits
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.7 (Nov 23, 2013)
- NEW Finnish and Turkish translations
- IMPROVED Improved support of temperature sensors on MacPro, MacMini and some iMac models
- IMPROVED Improved and optimized sensor-based control algorithm
- IMPROVED Optimized CPU usage
- IMPROVED Small UI improvements
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.6 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Improved the way user can change fan speed to a constant value (in the fan control window)
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.5 (Oct 2, 2013)
- IMPROVED:
- UI look and feel improvements e.g. fans list looks much prettier now
- Improvements in sensor-based control algorithms when temperature changes quicker than expected (Discussion)
- Further CPU usage optimizations, specially when fan control is set to a constant value
- Thread-safe stability improvements
- FIXED:
- Removed displaying of unsupported temperature sensors (e.g. iMac10,1)
- Windows: fixed crash when updating Macs Fan Control while the program is running
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.1 (Sep 7, 2013)
- FIXED:
- Fixed sensor-based control issue when waking mac from sleep (Discussion)
- IMPROVED:
- Improved stability and sensors support on some systems (iMac13,1)
- NEW:
- Korean and Danish translations
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.1.0 (Aug 21, 2013)
- NEW:
- Precise temperature display option (display decimals, e.g. 45.4)
- Fan control from tray (menu bar icon) popup menu
- Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Greek and Swedish translations
- IMPROVED:
- Improved display of temperature sensors, separator for disk drives
- Windows: minimize on close
- Numerous improvements and fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.7 (Jul 22, 2013)
- FIXED:
- Fixed some issues that could cause potential crash or instability
- Windows: fixed problem when Macs Fan Control displayed zeros for all values (Discussion)
- IMPROVED:
- Windows: faster reading of temperature values, CPU usage optimization
- NEW:
- Romanian and Slovak translations
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.6 (Jul 10, 2013)
- FIXED: Fixed crashing on quit under some conditions
- IMPROVED: Improved support of temperature sensor of some HDD/SSDs (e.g. Samsung SSD Pro 840)
- IMPROVED: Mac: digital signature to make Gatekeeper happy
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.5 (Jul 6, 2013)
- FIXED: Windows: fixed tray icon with increased DPI scaling
- IMPROVED: Qt framework update (4.8.5)
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.4 (Jul 2, 2013)
- IMPROVED:
- Significant CPU usage optimization when Macs Fan Control is working in background
- FIXED:
- Mac: fixed exclusive access to HDD S.M.A.R.T. data, prevented other apps from reading S.M.A.R.T. or eject a drive
- NEW:
- Persian translation
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.3 (Jun 20, 2013)
- NEW: Italian translation
- FIXED: Fixed automatic startup option on Windows 8
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.2 (Jun 20, 2013)
- NEW: Chinese and Japanese translations
- FIXED: Fixed displaying of invalid temperature value (128 C) on some hardware
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0.1 (May 29, 2013)
- NEW:
- French, German and Polish translations
- IMPROVED:
- Mac: improved appearance on MacBook Pro with Retina display
- FIXED:
- Mac: fixed warning message of non-supported file system
- Mac: fixed an important memory leak in sensor-based controlling mode
- Minor stability fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0 Beta 5 (May 13, 2013)
- NEW: Localization support, help to translate
- FIXED: Removed unsupported sensors from sensors list
- FIXED: Windows: fixed problem with not displaying of HDDs
- FIXED: Windows: fixed detecting of some Macs
- IMPROVED: Support of more temperature sensors (on MacPro as well)
- IMPROVED: Many small improvements and fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0 Beta 4 (May 13, 2013)
- Fixed sensor-based control problem when fan value exceeded maximum allowed value
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0 Beta 3 (Apr 12, 2013)
- New preferences dialog
- NEW Fahrenheit temperature scale option
- NEW Mac: display of fan RPM and/or temperature sensor value in menu bar
- IMPROVED Improved user interface
- FIXED Small fixes
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0 Beta 2 (Apr 12, 2013)
- Fixed compatibility with Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
New in Mac & Boot Camp Fan Control 1.0 Beta (Mar 22, 2013)
- Initial release for Windows and Mac with support of controlling of any fan speed, temperature sensors pane, tray(menu bar) icon and autostart with system option