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I have a powerful MacBook Pro M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM. I updated it to macOS 26 since that it became a lot slower than my MacBook Air M1 with just 16 GB of RAM that I left on macOS Sequoia 15.7.x… What an irony given that my MacBook Pro has way better hardware specs.

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Do you happen to have an app on this list open (https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/) ?

There is a bug in Electron caused by the use of a private API that slows down macOS 26 significantly. It’s fixed in Electron but not all Electron apps have updated to the new version yet. Apparently it’s fixed in macOS 26.2

I do know about it! I even did a few PRs in the past :) https://github.com/avarayr/shamelectron/pulls?q=is%3Apr+auth...

They do it on purpose and they're being very blatant about it now

Someone will maybe come along and tell you it's just "indexing" slowing it down and to wait a few weeks lol. That's the common gaslighting method

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