MATLab crashes on launch OS X Yosemite

**UPDATE: (OFFICIAL FIX) **

Mathworks has released a patch for Matlab 2012a ~ 2014a. Use this link to download the appropriate patch for your version

There is another issue with Yosemite Beta 2. It prevents Matlab from running at the very first point with this error message:

You can’t use this version of the application “MATLAB_R2012b” with this version of OS X.

The solution is:

  1. find Matlab application file under Applications folder
  2. Right (Control) click and select Show Package Contents
  3. Navigate to : Contents/Mac OS
  4. Right (control) click on startMatlab
  5. Make an Alias
  6. Copy the Alias to another folder e.g. your desktop.
  7. Run the alias.

You will still need to have those temporary fixes that were used in Beta 1 for running Matlab.

Here is the tutorial video for fixing the problem (on Beta 2)

and as a reminder here is the video for fixing crash on Beta 1


Definitive solution. It runs fine without system hacks or desktop aliases.

Download the patch here: http://files.mc128k.info/data/public/92d26d.php


A fix that allows you to launch and run both MatLab and the Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite standard apps all at once is to set the ProductVersion to 10.90 instead of 10.9 or 10.10.