
I'm not convinced that the vendor ICC profiles are in fact working as we expect after upgrading from Big Sur to Monterey So what is actually preventing the visibility of certain profiles in macOS Big Sur 11.6.2 is still unclear to me. I wonder if that explains why some non-Adobe print workflows are able to get at the missing profiles even though the applications themselves can’t see the same profiles. I am under the impression that Apple, some printer manufacturers, and Adobe have worked on coordinating automatic profile selection in the Print dialog box based on printer driver settings. The profiles are available in non-Adobe applications only in the Print dialog box, if ColorSync is selected in the macOS Print dialog box Color Matching options.The profiles are available in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator for both printing and assigning/converting.The profiles are missing in ColorSync Utility, Lightroom Classic, and other non-Adobe applications for assign/convert to profile.Other observations on my Mac running macOS Big Sur 11.6.2: So the real cause and fix for missing profiles in Big Sur specifically is still a mystery to me. But I noticed that the Monterey update release notes include the same fix, yet the same profiles are all perfectly visible and accessible in Monterey (at least for me). (The same profiles are still perfectly visible and accessible in macOS 12 Monterey.)Īnother post here speculates that an Apple fix for a security vulnerability in ICC profiles in macOS 11.6.2 might be why the path to those profiles is broken. The workaround in my article does not fix it in macOS 11.6.2, so I added a note to the article. My old Mac is still on Big Sur, and I am seeing that problem too, and am unable to explain it. There seem to be more and more posts reporting ICC profiles not showing up in Big Sur specifically.
