Very bad performance with Tahoe

[uti Pontus hage]

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else experiencing severe performance issues with macOS Tahoe?

I typically work with five Spaces and around twelve open apps running across them. Unfortunately, the system has become so slow that it's nearly unusable—everything lags, stutters, and eventually becomes almost unresponsive. Restarting helps briefly, but the poor performance quickly returns.

I made the mistake of upgrading early this time—something I usually avoid—and now I remember why.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks?

 

[chet118]

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else experiencing severe performance issues with macOS Tahoe?

I typically work with five Spaces and around twelve open apps running across them. Unfortunately, the system has become so slow that it's nearly unusable—everything lags, stutters, and eventually becomes almost unresponsive. Restarting helps briefly, but the poor performance quickly returns.

I made the mistake of upgrading early this time—something I usually avoid—and now I remember why.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks?

What mac are you using?

 

[uti Pontus hage]

Mac mini M4 pro.
It definitely works better when having less spaces and fewer apps running though.

 

[chet118]

Mac mini M4 pro.
It definitely works better when having less spaces and fewer apps running though.

I updated my MacBook Air M1 and it works great. Check what exactly is loading your Mac in Activity Monitoring.

 

[ibookemo]

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else experiencing severe performance issues with macOS Tahoe?

I typically work with five Spaces and around twelve open apps running across them. Unfortunately, the system has become so slow that it's nearly unusable—everything lags, stutters, and eventually becomes almost unresponsive. Restarting helps briefly, but the poor performance quickly returns.

I made the mistake of upgrading early this time—something I usually avoid—and now I remember why.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks?

I'm in the same boat on an M4 Pro. Tahoe is definitely not polished - super slow on my Mac.

 

[Retroworldnews]

Hi everyone,

Is anyone else experiencing severe performance issues with macOS Tahoe?

I typically work with five Spaces and around twelve open apps running across them. Unfortunately, the system has become so slow that it's nearly unusable—everything lags, stutters, and eventually becomes almost unresponsive. Restarting helps briefly, but the poor performance quickly returns.

I made the mistake of upgrading early this time—something I usually avoid—and now I remember why.

Does anyone have any tips and tricks?

Yeah, I using iMac bought in 2024. 8GB ram only last OSX work great even I only have 8GB ram. After install, tend to feel like cannot open much tab in Google Chrome. Happen there is another new update on Google Chrome again which I come to know from one of the member here it seem ok but later I discover some misc lag still happen, that " Spinning colour ball appear " I never encounter way back the last OSX , literally never see " that spinning ball appear ever first I have this iMac. Guess surely there will be update soon for this new Mac OSX. Finger cross it fix.

 

[S.B.G]

I'm not having any issues with my 3 Mac's on Tahoe.

 

[NewOldStock]

Safari gets choked up and slow response so clear history and good for a while then happens again later.
Safari and youtube back paging goes back about 2 pages sometimes.
Scroling with track pad in finder looking thru apps track pad chokes and slow to a crawl but only while looking at the app section. Very strange things going on with Apple track pad. Been trying different settings on the track pad.
Hopefully 26.1 clears things up like the Dot.1 versions usually do.
Definitely not as good first release as some of the last few versions have been.

 

[maflynn]

Does anyone have any tips and tricks?

My suggestions is wait a period of time, as there may be background processes still running that's upgrade related. Secondly, if you're using that many spaces, why not simplify your setup initially. Take a step approach. Create a new account - measure the performance, add another space, check again, etc etc.

There's a lot of chatter about performance woes, and much of the discussion seems to be with those on M1 Macs. you have a beefier Mac, so there may be other factors and if you can identify or narrow down the cause, that will help you in the long run

 

[jonidontcry]

My suggestions is wait a period of time, as there may be background processes still running that's upgrade related. Secondly, if you're using that many spaces, why not simplify your setup initially. Take a step approach. Create a new account - measure the performance, add another space, check again, etc etc.

There's a lot of chatter about performance woes, and much of the discussion seems to be with those on M1 Macs. you have a beefier Mac, so there may be other factors and if you can identify or narrow down the cause, that will help you in the long run

OK I think let's try using Tahoe for a week to see if it improves after indexing completed.