Slow and Beachballing 2015 MBP after updating to Big Sur 11.4 I have an early 2015 13" MBP with 16gb Ram running Big Sur 11.4 and since the update, it constantly runs slow and beach balls a lot of the time. This will reveal if this is an issue that affects the whole system, or just your user profile, and in the end, save you some troubleshooting time. Likewise, old kernel Extensions/Kexts may need to be removed, working in safe mode maybe a good indicator of this.Īlso, in case it’s just a conflict with your user profile, sometimes testing in a new admin user is a good idea. Resetting the SMC is sometimes also a good step to take, which only takes a minute to do: You can test in safe mode, but sometimes just booting to safe mode/restarting may resolve an issue like this. Likewise Safe Mode is a good way to rule out unruly third party, non-Apple software and/or file system corruption and is sometimes an effective solution on its own: These files, when enabled try to launch every time you login to your Mac, so this won’t delete them, just prevent from opening automatically. But likewise permissions issues, a connected external drive or monitor, a formatting issue with the internal drive.Ĭan you remove everything in System Preferences > Users and Groups > Login Items, by pressing the “-“ after highlighting them. I can think of a number of causes, mostly outdated/incompatible software that won’t work with Big Sur. I'm thinking of moving back to previous OS, but as it hadn't been updated since unboxing I dont think this is possible? I'd actually have to do essentially a factory reset and start from Yosemite?Ĭan you confirm that is mostly with Chrome? Or all apps? I've downloaded / paid for CleanMyMacX and utilitsed essentially all of its tools to free up as much as possible but no luck.Īnyway, any advice / guidance on this much appreciated. I read the warnings to have free space when updating, and think 45GB is more than adequate for the OS to not be at the end of its tether. I can't see how this update would cause such a drastic difference. Now, I don't even try having x2 chrome windows opened simultaneously, and if i go past 2-3 youtube tabs, or have multiple open, I get significant lag when trying to do things such as open a new page, open a new tab, minimising the window even the 'right click' option menu lags or freezes sometimes. It slowed at times, but always managed great. Prior to update it used to be able to handle having x2 chrome windows open, one running up to 5+ youtube tabs (not all playing simeltaneously) with another window with 10-15+ tabs for general browsing, while playing music or potentially with photoshop / quickmovie etc in the background. I used to have El Capitan or Yosemite (have not completed OS update for awhile, or ever since unboxing) Since updating to Big Sur, I've experienced reduced performance out of the Mac. I have a Macbook Air 11" 128GB currently with 45GB free space, and 15GB space taken by "system" category.
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