Reply To: Diagnostic query: Unexpected kernel panic on macOS Sequoia 15.1 after waking (1794667931)

The panic stack frequently shows AppleThunderboltNHI::handleInterrupt firing concurrently with bluetoothd HCI command timeouts caused by 2.4GHz interference from the dock’s USB-C PHY, which stalls the IOPlatformPluginFamily thermal sensor polling loop. Disable “Optimize Mac Storage” for iCloud Photos (defaults write com.apple.photoanalysisd DisableCloudOptimization -bool true) to halt background photoanalysisd I/O storms on the boot volume during wake, and force the Bluetooth controller into a clean reset via sudo pkill bluetoothd && sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always. If the dock supports it, toggle Thunderbolt/USB4 mode to “USB Only” in the dock’s firmware utility to isolate the NHI driver from the display path.