My MacBook is slow recently. How do I fix this?

Solution 1:

It looks like you have sufficient Disk space and RAM.

If your battery is EOL (died) or not holding charge...

Mac will cut the CPU clock speed to 1/2 of maximum that will impact all and any operations.

Install Intel Power gadget to verify your CPU, this is an example of normal speed CPU.

Use the Activity Monitor to see who is responsible. Here are my examples.

Notice the Disk activity as Data/Sec

Finally about the battery (check this on your computer)

Solution 2:

While you have 24GB left for storage on your Mac, it might still be causing it to slow down... I would recommend trying to clean it up and remove any files or apps that you no longer need. If you have things like images taking up a lot of room, it may be time to try something like storing them online, that way if something ever happens to your Mac, they will still be safe.

The true test would be to back up all your files and apps to Time Machine and then erase the storage and install a clean OS. You could then be sure the storage and speed are perfect before adding your files back or know if you get it repaired, the speed will be fixed before you add your apps.

The free space would be a concern if you had a traditional HDD - but with SSD, they have spare capacity and don’t slow down as they fill until you are really close to 2 GB free in my experience.