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Spinning wheel appears every time you open an app on your Mac

Your Mac is slow to open apps because the hard drive is busy, you're running out of memory, or the drive is getting full. Check your hard drive space first. If you have less than 10% free, that's the problem. Then check Activity Monitor to see what's using CPU.

Apps take time to launch when your Mac has less free hard drive space, your memory is full, or a background process is using CPU. The spinning wheel is your Mac asking you to wait while it loads the app from disk. Free up hard drive space, close background apps, and your launch times will improve immediately.

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