I have the same exact issue on my M1 MacBook Air. You can find plenty of others online with the same issue if you search 'cursor lag' - however I haven't found a working solution. If you figure it out please let me know!

I’m finding results now. How did I not find these earlier?! Thank you.

I had an issue that drove me mad where if the battery went to 0% (and macOS went into hibernate), I would then plug it back in and the mouse cursor would be quite... jittery. Almost to the point of unusable at the worst of it.

macOS 13.1? appears to have solved this problem. Better late than never.

Oh!! I just finally updated to 13.1. I should test it out. Thanks for the reminder.

Oh I had the same jittery pointer but couldn't figure out the cause. Seems gone now so maybe it was fixed in the update.

Same here

I had an infuriating variant of this across two M1 machines where they'd kernel panic while trying to hibernate at 0% battery.

And even plugging in a charger before it actually died wouldn't save it: It'd try to turn stay on but the pending hibernation would kick in and it'd die.

The "fix" for me was to turn off deep sleep. Technically now they'll drain more during sleep, but that's preferrable than being broken during sleep.

The whole experience was disappointingly Linux though. Having to read through the Console to figure out it was a kernel panic and not a power issue, having to read through Darwin sources to track down where exactly in the hibernation it was failing, not the kind of stuff I expect to deal with from Apple hardware.

Holy crap, same! I had the issue on my M1 MBP and now am having the same issue with my M2 MBA. Please anyone help if they know how to fix it.

What fixed this for me was disabling siri

If this really is the fix, I really need to know why.

She's using all resources to cleanup after the party she had while you were gone.

I have this issue when my MacBook Pro wakes up after its battery went empty, even once charged it doesn't go away and you have to restart it

My M1 often wakes from sleep only to beachball and 20hz-screen-refresh for 120-150 seconds. I think it's a thing with the memory-management. I have to restart the machine to fix it or it will happen every time I close the lid.

Oh, and the machine forgets its audio settings when this happens, too. Always tries to revert to built-in speakers while it's closed despite having a CalTech hub with speakers I've selected dozens of times.

I don't understand why laptops continue to have such weird power-management problems. I thought we fixed this stuff ages ago.