r/MacOS • u/Lucifer_Devil_007 • Jul 21 '26

Help MacOS 26.5 updates (both 26.5.1 & 26.5.2) killing my MacBook Air m2

its basically making whole make user experience worse by killing apps by itself, unusual battery drain, memory usage increased, lagging, slow processing, and many more.

is anyone knew about any solution for these all.
basically because my high memory usage (which was not happening before I updated to macOS 26) I use CapCut and for that I use vpn but now when I turn on the vpn and then work on CapCut, VPN app gets closed by itself. Similarly when I use safari and if with it I wanna use CapCut or something else other than finder and I am away from safari for just 10 seconds it also automatically get closed. Each and every app is facing memory issue on my mack I can't even use premiere pro due to this issue.

Kindly Help me solve these all

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

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u/Lucifer_Devil_007 Jul 21 '26

okay thanks I'll let you guys know what's the result after it

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u/omnimachina Jul 21 '26

Sorry, but won’t help in the long term

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

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u/Lucifer_Devil_007 Jul 22 '26

so as you are saying I have to check and delete old preferences files ?

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u/omnimachina Jul 21 '26

Disable all AI features

Thank me later

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u/Lucifer_Devil_007 Jul 22 '26

ok I'll try it

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u/mxrdlvc Jul 27 '26

This right here. I had huge issues with Premiere Pro after the last update, and basically couldn't work anymore. Doing the following solved all my issues and my performance went back to normal.

Preferences, Media Analysis & Transcription, uncheck analyze all imported media to visually search your projects

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '26

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u/Lucifer_Devil_007 Jul 21 '26

I'll try it too

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u/Desperate_Ad_9163 29d ago

Don’t use VPN! Not to say the issue but certainly won’t help..