For users who are new to Mac, the new system may be a little uncomfortable. Now, we will introduce you to some Mac tips that can make the device smoother. 1. Upgrade your Mac
It is possible that you have not updated your Mac system for a while. Each operating system update brings a range of useful underlying improvements, some of which may improve device performance. To experience the new improvements, you'll need to upgrade your system on your Mac. Open the Mac App Store, click Update and Install.
2. Activity Monitor
Take a look at the Activity Monitor (the fastest way to open it? Command+space, enter Activity Monitor). Activity Monitor takes a look at your Mac's health, looking at CPU and memory to see if you can spot an app that's taking up a lot of resources. If so, simply quit the app and free up some space on your Mac.
3. Login items
Is there an application in your Mac that runs on startup? Go to System Preferences - Users & Groups, view the current users, and see how many logins there are items are present in the list, select the apps you don't want to start automatically and click the minus "-" button to remove them from the list of login items.
4. Limit visual effects
Mac comes with many visual effects. Again, if you want to get more performance from your computer, you may want to turn off some visual effects.
In System Preferences - Dock, uncheck the following sections:
Magnification
Bouncing open applications
Automatically show and hide Dock
Minimize the window to the application icon
You may also want to reduce the transparency effect and go to System Preferences - Accessibility - Displays.
5. About Mac
macOS has some very useful built-in tools to help you get rid of items you no longer need. to improve Mac performance.
Open "About This Mac" in the menu bar, then click Storage to access the section. Wait a moment and you should see a visualizationThe bar is used to display the space occupied by the system.
Then click on the "Management" tool.
Here you will see different items (Mail, iTunes, iCloud Drive, etc.). Click these to get more information and find app-specific recommendations. You will also see a recommended item. Click here to help you delete space-wasting things on your Mac, which may include:
Store in iCloud
Optimize storage space
Automatically clean up waste Wastebasket
Avoid clutter
6. iTunes collection
iTunes likes to collect apps installed on iOS devices. You can use the Avoid Clutter tool to remove apps from iTunes that you no longer use. However, it makes more sense to do this in iTunes because you'll have a better idea of which apps to delete. Although a little time consuming, it is more effective.
7. About Finder
Every time you open a new Finder window, you will see all the files in Finder? If you change it, you may encounter a small change. Performance improvements. In Finder, open the preferences of the Finder menu bar, and in the "New Finder" window, select an appropriate folder (such as the desktop), or put the "in progress" folder into the folder where the work is being saved. . In the future, your Mac won't need to calculate and display information for all files and will only open folders you define.
8. About the browser
The browser can become the administrator of the system. You can tell this by opening Activity Monitor when you open a web page in Safari and see which process is taking up the most CPU performance. You'll often find that these are pages you have open on your Mac running annoying scripts that eat up your processor. The best thing you can do is to exit your browser when you're not using it, and strictly control the number of websites/tabs you have open in your browser at any one time. You should also reduce the number of extensions you are using for your active browser.
9. About Mail
After a while, Apple’s Mail app can get a little clunky. If you get a lot of email and have been using the same account for years, when the mail kicks in it can slow down your entire system. You can try these three things:
Delete messages
Rebuild
Reindex
10. Add more memory
Increasing the RAM in your Mac is a straightforward way to get better performance. However, Apple does not make it easy for us to upgrade the memory. Before doing this, you need to know the memory your Mac is suitable for and find a way to install it.
11. Reinstall the system
When the problem becomes very bad, you might as well try to reinstall the Mac system .