No matter how much care we tend to take while working on our Mac, it gets slow with time. And it tends to get slower day by day. This leads to clean up and optimize our mac for speed and better performance. One thing that I can tell you is that you are not alone. Almost everyone is experiencing this problem with Mac. All the owners experience this problem later or sooner as they purchase a new Mac. Well, do not get worried, I have various solutions for you to clean up and optimize your branded new Mac. First of all, let’s understand why does Mac get slow with time and why do we need to optimize our Mac?
Sometimes, running heavy-battery and storage-consuming applications makes our Mac sluggish. Newly introduced Macs like the 16-inch MacBook Pro which comes with 64GB RAM are loaded with flawless performance even when multitasking. However, shockingly, I observed that it also got slowed down after some time. Here are some more reasons behind the sluggish performance of your Mac:
- Your system makes your Mac down (be it software or hardware).
- Your hard drive storage is full or taking up so much space.
- You have too many files and folders in your Preference pane.
- You have too many applications running in the background.
- Your Mac’s hardware is probably too old to work on the current version.
Don’t worry, with a few steps and clean-ups we can get our Mac to its initial speed. With the help of this blog, you will be able to find ways by which you can optimize and clean up your Mac to get the actual speed and to improve the performance instantly. Here are some tips and tricks to clean up and optimize your sluggish Mac.
8 Simple and Effective Ways to Clean Up and Optimize your Mac
1. By Updating your Software
By updating all your applications and software you will be able to get your actual speed of Mac instantly. Updates will help to fix bugs and will improve the programming of the system.
2. By Updating your OS
By updating your OS, you will be to get the latest version. Also, it will fix all the bugs and problems in your Mac. While updating your OS, keep in mind that it takes time therefore, select a proper time to update and leave your Mac for some time to do its job.
3. By Running Maintenance Scripts
Do you know maintenance scripts can be helpful for cleaning up your Mac itself? It is kind of an under-the-hood optimization technique. This process covers certain system logs and libraries. Moreover, it also replaces an old file which helps in refreshing the system.
To run maintenance script instantly on your Mac, follow the below steps:
- Download and launch the free version of CleanMyMac X.
- Now, click on the Maintenance tab
- And, run Maintenance scripts
4. By turning off visual effects
Slowing down of your Mac can also be caused by the desktop feature which changes the desktop background automatically. In order to disable this feature, follow:
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver> Turn off “Change Picture”
5. By restarting your Mac
Although Macs’ performances are energy-efficient and stable, you might feel like this way is cliché. But the good handling practices show that rebooting your Mac might help to boost the speed of your Mac. By restarting your Mac, you will be able to shut down all the unnecessary apps working in the background. It actually clears a lot of caches which will improve the working and speed of your Mac.
6. By using clean up tools
CleanMyMac X is so far the best and professional tool we have ever tried to fix our Mac. CleanMyMac X basically scans your Mac and finds all the hidden junk from your system. It’s the only tool that provides one-click removal of all the junk. Not only this, but it also frees up storage from your Mac. The best part about this tool is that it’s free and comes with a smart scan feature. You can easily download the free version of CleanMyMac X from here.
7. By removing startup items
With the help of CleanMyMac X, you can permanently remove applications from the list of startup items. After removing startup items, you are definitely going to see a fast and responsive Mac than before.
Below are the manual steps to remove startup items from your Mac:
- Go to System Preferences and then click on Users & Groups
- Choose your name
- Select Login Items
- Select Startup Items that you do not wish to load while working on your Mac.
- Make sure to click the “-” icon for removing them from the startup list.
- Lastly, reboot your Mac.
Follow the below steps to remove start-up items with the help of CleanMyMac X:
- Download and launch CleanMyMac X.
- Now, click on Optimization and go to Login Items
- Now, disable the items you do not wish to load while working on your Mac
- Voila! It’s done
I hope this blog helps you with cleaning up and optimizing your Mac.
Thanks for reading!
