It’s only natural to exaggerate Apple’s Macs and even call them lean and fast machines. Deleting these new slim Macs will keep them physically clean. However, Mac’s performance tends to slow down and become sluggish over time. After a few months or a year, when your Mac takes too long to start up or takes a minute to launch the app, you may start looking for ways to keep your Mac running like new. This is where CleanMyMac X comes in to save time and energy.
Even though recent Macs are packing faster SSDs, there are a few reasons why the experience of using it can feel tense. Many people still use old Mac machines and you can easily imagine their frustration.
Performance degradation happens when you don’t clean junk files, app caches, unused apps, and more. You will spend several hours each week manually deleting these unwanted files and apps.
Fortunately, you can automate these tasks and reduce the hours you spend manually deleting files, folders, and unwanted apps. Whether you’re using an old or new Mac, here are 5 smart ways to get your Mac running like a new smack in a few clicks using CleanMyMac X.
Clean Junk Files
Combining different directories to manually delete unwanted files and folders is a very tedious task. Don’t you want to quickly clean up all the garbage and leftover files? CleanMyMac X offers a Smart Scan option that discovers your Mac’s storage for temporary files, browser cache, app caches, files left after uninstalling apps, mail attachments, and even files in the trash. All these unwanted files take up space and slow down your Mac’s performance.
You can clean all those unwanted junk files in one click and reclaim valuable storage space. After that, Mac apps will run smoothly just like when you first installed them. Your browser will suddenly start responding after the browser cache is cleared.
Of course, you will allow CleanMyMac X full disk access to perform a deep and thorough scan for this type of data.
Intelligently Discard or Relocate Large and Old Files
The Space Lens feature in CleanMyMac X performs a quick scan to instantly show a storage map. This means you get a view of the files and folders taking up the most space. You can then browse through these specific folders and figure out which old and unnecessary files you want to remove or move to the trash.
The Large & Old files option under the Files section is a simple way to list all the large files you haven’t used or accessed in a long time. Of course, that means it will show you the largest files by date.
The trick is this: You can use the same feature to transfer those large files to external storage. Yes, you don’t need to remove those large media files. This is really smart.
To safely remove the digital footprint of any file or folder from your Mac, you should use the Shredder feature. You can delete such data directly from the disk without leaving any traces, whether they are sensitive or locked by the Finder.
Uninstall Old, Unused Apps
Who doesn’t love to try new apps? Many apps and utilities can be fun and useful to use. However, we only use some of them regularly. Removing unwanted and unused applications can also free up some disk space.
For example, many people can barely use Garageband, and removing it will free up about 1GB of space. You may also have manually uninstalled many apps. Uninstalling such apps often leaves a few files and folders that take up some space or cause conflicts.
The uninstaller option instantly shows a chronological list of apps you haven’t used in a while. Other than that, it shows one of the coolest options: a list of all 32-bit apps on your Mac. This means that if you are running macOS Catalina or later, such 32-bit applications will not run and will slow down your system significantly.
The Extensions option can silently and efficiently remove any add-on, extension or widget you don’t use.
If you have disabled automatic App Store updates to save data or you want to update apps manually, you can always use Updater to keep your apps up to date.
Optimizing Speed and Maintenance
Reclaiming storage space by cleaning junk files is just one of several steps to improve your Mac’s responsiveness. The next step is to optimize performance by evaluating unwanted apps and services running in the background. You can disable the Login items that automatically pop up every time you log in to the Mac.
There are little ‘app agents’ that run in the background to monitor your usage and try to evaluate things like when you should use that particular app. You can disable them to free up system resources.
Many other factors also affect the speed and performance of your Mac. The Maintenance section lists several such options, from Free RAM to Repairing Disk Permissions. Run them all regularly and you will see this speed increase when launching applications and opening files.
Even running the Optimization and Maintenance section every two weeks will eliminate any speed or performance related glitches.
Protection and Privacy
Let’s get one thing clear: The Mac’s security may arguably be stronger, but it’s still vulnerable to attacks and malware. So instead of underestimating your Mac, you can protect it. That’s why it’s a good practice to let CleanMyMac X scan your Mac for Malware, especially Mail attachments.
Although it is not a standalone security application, it does a very good job of thoroughly examining every digital nook and cranny of your Mac.
You’d be surprised how the privacy feature quickly accesses different app permissions to view the app-by-app details of those permissions. This way, you can protect your data from any smart alec application that requests unwanted permissions without your knowledge.
Of course the same feature will instantly remove your browser(s) temporary files, cache and browsing data.
One Click in Time Saves Nine
With CleanMyMac X, all these activities will only take 2-5 minutes. You’ll be amazed at how fast your Mac runs after that. Of course, you will not notice the hours you have recorded with a few clicks.
Even when you close or exit the CleanMyMac X application, its icon appears in the Menu bar and gives you information about Storage, Memory usage, CPU Load and Temperature, Battery Charge and Network Speed with one click.
You can give CleanMyMac X a shot with a free trial that puts a few limitations on file sizes and other options you can remove.
The CleanMyMac X license is available with an annual subscription that will cost $34.95 for a single Mac, $54.95 for two Macs, and $79.95 for five Macs. You can also choose the One-Time purchase option, which will cost $89 for one Mac, $134.95 for two Macs, and $199.95 for five Macs. If you are not satisfied with the product, MacPaw also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee when you purchase it from the MacPaw Store.
