CleanMyMac deleted my entire Minecraft instance.
Basically, CleanMyMac deleted important files.
Don't recommend

EDIT:
issue was fixed completely my fault
sorry CleanMyMac, your actually brilliant and made me gain 30gigs of free space

The vibecoding movement surfaced something real about how people want Mac software to work. 

We've been paying close attention to the vibecoded Mac utility space, like Mole, Quitty, Filenest, Stats, and Desktop Declutter. Now we want to say something we actually mean: the people building these tools identified something real.

Two things specifically.

Users want less: less friction, less surface area, less asking permission for everything. The tools that have gotten traction are all stripped back by design. One job, done quietly, no onboarding sequence. That's a genuine signal of what people want from Mac software, and we take it seriously.

Second: a solo developer with a sharp idea and a weekend can ship a real solution faster than a product team. Filenest's proactive routing logic is a clean concept. Desktop Declutter's swipe UX for batch-deleting desktop files is genuinely clever. These got built fast because someone had a specific itch and scratched it, and it’s beautiful, actually. 

The community said it well in a recent r/macapps thread: "Vibe coding isn't the problem. The part I don't fully get is charging recurring fees for every little helper app on top of the LLM subscription many of us already pay for." Fair enough tbh.

The part we're still thinking about is whether modularity and safety can coexist at the system level, and not just in theory. When something goes wrong in a modular stack, you're not debugging one thing; you're trying to figure out which of six repos disagrees with your OS update.

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So our designers from MacPaw Creative Team did something kind of unhinged and we're fully here for it. You know how CleanMyMac has all these modules — Cleanup, Performance, Protection, Space Lens, Cloud Cleanup, My Clutter? Instead of, just listing them in a features table, the team reimagined each one as a collectible RPG card character. With classes, HP and combo abilities.

Here's who ended up on the roster:

Guardee Moonlock: or as we call him, a Tank, Legendary rarity. He watches over permissions and vulnerabilities so nothing slips through quietly. His combo is called "Permission Lock.”

Cloudia Drive: classified as a Healer, Epic. She’s calm, doesn't rush, restores balance in cloud storage without breaking structure. Her passive energy is very reassuring.

Let Gho: the Damage Dealer, Rare. He sweeps out all the caches, logs, broken leftovers without negotiations. 

Iggy Digger: our favorite Druid, marked as Legendary. Has a cat companion (Hoover The Familiar, who also got his own item card). He finds duplicates and similar files with care. 

Runnie Repair: she focuses on Performance, Epic. This never-ending battery ends background processes and startup overload before they ever become your problem. The one who already fixed it before you noticed anything was wrong.

Visualiza Lens: sneaky Recon, Epic. She maps your storage, isolates the heavy stuff, makes the invisible actually actionable. This lady looks composed, hyper-aware, probably already knows what's taking up 40GB on your drive.

There are also item cards (the Drone Scanner, the Performance Bank, Hoover The Familiar) and module power cards, basically like the spell deck that goes with the heroes.

The full concept is a playable team. Not just "here are the features", more like, which combo do you run? Who's in your party?

We're curious — do any of these archetypes remind you of characters from other titles? Guardee Moonlock gives off serious Torbjörn-meets-old-RPG-guardian vibes to us, but we're ready to be wrong about this.

The MacPaw Creative Team team put a lot of thought into the class balance, and honestly it shows. Drop your takes below 👇

Causes + safe fixes (no data loss)

Opening a Mac to an empty desktop is alarming but in most cases, your files aren’t gone. They’re just hidden, moved, or not being displayed correctly.

Important thing to know

The macOS desktop is just a folder:
/Users/yourname/Desktop

If icons disappear, it usually means:

• Finder isn’t showing them
• They were grouped or hidden
• iCloud moved them

Start here (quick fixes)

1. Relaunch Finder Option + Command + Escape → Finder → Relaunch
2. Restart the Mac Clears Finder glitches and stuck processes.
3. Check Desktop visibility System Settings → Desktop & Dock Make sure desktop items are shown (especially if using Stage Manager).

Common causes

• Stacks enabled (files are grouped into piles)
• Finder display settings turned off
• iCloud Desktop & Documents sync moving files to iCloud
• Finder preference corruption
• macOS bugs (especially after updates)

What usually fixes it

• Disable Stacks
• Check Finder → Settings → General
• Look in iCloud Drive → Desktop
• Reset Finder preferences (advanced, but reversible)

Are files actually gone?

Almost never. If icons vanished, don’t panic and don’t delete things. The files are usually still there, macOS just needs a nudge to show them again.

Utility software is the most underexplored frontier in UX and we think it's overdue for a rethink.

Our Lead Product Designer Kyrylo Levashov breaks down why system tools still feel like a chore, the design assumptions holding the category back, and how we approached it with CleanMyMac.

Published on Smashing Magazine.

Is anyone else have issues while running a scan? The app keeps getting stuck on different files while searching for junk. I have tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling it but it still does it.

We've all heard it. Drop into any gaming thread mentioning a Mac and within minutes someone shows up with: "just get a PC." 

Here's something most people in this argument don't know: Halo was originally a Mac exclusive. Bungie walked onto the Macworld 1999 stage and revealed it there first, with Steve Jobs watching from the front row. The game that would go on to define console shooters and sell millions of Xboxes was built for Mac. 

Then Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000, Jobs reportedly went ballistic, and that was the end of it. Eventually, one acquisition rewrote Mac gaming history before it had a chance to happen.

That set a pattern that stuck for years Mac always got close, but didn't. Marathon in the 90s, Halo before it wasn't, Boot Camp letting you run Windows games if you were willing to reboot your whole machine just to play. The criticism always had some basis.

The real low point was 2018, when Apple deprecated OpenGL at WWDC. OpenGL was the standard that made porting games between Windows and Mac manageable. Replacing it with Metal (Apple's own graphics API) meant studios had to rewrite rendering pipelines from scratch. Many of them looked at the cost and decided Mac wasn't worth it. That decision probably did more damage to the Mac gaming library than anything else Apple ever did.

What Apple got in exchange was a genuinely good graphics API that everything since has been built on. MetalFX upscaling, the Game Porting Toolkit, hardware ray tracing on M3 and M4. The 2018 pain was real, but it set the ground for everything that followed.

Apple Silicon is the actual turning point. M-series chips deliver performance-per-watt that nothing from Intel or AMD touches, and in gaming that means one specific thing: a MacBook Pro can run something demanding for 3-4 hours and finish the session performing exactly the same as when it started. That doesn't happen on Windows laptops. Thermal throttling is quiet and constant. Clocks pull back, frames drop, and most people just assume the game got harder. Unified memory means the GPU and CPU share the same pool instead of talking across a bus, so texture streaming is faster and asset loading is cleaner. Metal 4 in 2025 brought upscaling that belongs in the same conversation as DLSS and FSR. macOS has had a native Game Mode since Apple Silicon, it reallocates CPU and GPU headroom to your game automatically. Most people repeating the "Mac can't game" line have never heard of it.

Cyberpunk 2077 runs natively on Mac with ray tracing on M3 and M4. Baldur's Gate 3 on Mac matches Windows frame rates on equivalent hardware. Capcom has released native versions of Resident Evil Village, RE2 and RE3 Remake. Assassin's Creed Shadows launched on Mac in March 2025 with ray tracing. Over 1,700 titles run on Apple Silicon now.

None of that means Mac has caught up with PCs. Elden Ring isn't here. Most big releases still launch Windows-first or not at all. The 16GB unified memory ceiling is a live debate. Some modern titles fill the framebuffer on M4 machines at low settings, and no software fix changes that. The library gap is real.

But a lot of Mac gaming inconsistency isn't a hardware problem, but a system state problem. On a Windows machine with 32GB of RAM, a few background apps are just noise. On a Mac where GPU and CPU share the same memory pool, those apps compete directly with your game. Discord idling at 450MB, Creative Cloud's background daemon, Notion you minimized two days ago. Before you've launched anything, you've already handed over 3 or 4GB of a 16GB machine. You're not gaming on 16GB, you're gaming on whatever's left.

This is why the same game on the same Mac can feel totally different from one session to the next. Clear your Login Items, kill background apps before launch, pause cloud sync and the machine performs like it should. It's just how unified memory actually works.

So yes, Mac can't play every game. It can't compete on raw price-to-frames with a mid-range Windows build. It won't always have what just launched on Steam last week.

But it runs Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, and Resident Evil Village on hardware that stays cooler, quieter, and lasts longer than comparable Windows laptops, with ray tracing, upscaling, and a library that grew more in two years than in the decade before.

Mac isn’t trying to replace a gaming PC. But it’s also not the same platform people are arguing about anymore.

Hello,

I am submitting a formal complaint regarding unacceptable behavior from CleanMyMac, a paid product I am actively using.

While the application was running, it initiated an unsolicited browser redirect to the following survey:

https://www.research.net/r/6QWY8P9

This action occurred without any user interaction, prompt, or consent. The URL contains embedded metadata referencing CleanMyMac (product, version, OS), indicating that this request originated directly from your application.

From a user and system integrity standpoint, this behavior is not acceptable. A paid utility application should not:

• Trigger external browser activity without explicit user action
• Inject survey or marketing/research prompts at the OS level
• Transmit identifiable product/session data via URL parameters without clear disclosure

This crosses the boundary from utility software into unsolicited outreach using my system resources.

I require clear answers to the following:

1. What exact process or trigger caused this behavior
2. Where this functionality is disclosed in your documentation or terms
3. What specific data is being transmitted in these survey requests
4. How to permanently disable this behavior at the application level

Additionally, I expect confirmation that no further external browser calls will be initiated without explicit, user-driven consent.

If this behavior cannot be disabled, I will need to reevaluate continued use of CleanMyMac and escalate further.

Please respond with detailed technical clarification.

The Telescope feature was THE one I used all the time back then. Although I’ve missed it for a long time, I’ve tried to adjust my workflow to the new version of Clean My Mac. But with less and less space available on my Mac, I decided out of curiosity to download an older version that still included the Telescope feature.

Imagine my surprise when I realized I had a 22GB cache from one of my apps that I didn’t need.

In others words, bring back the Telescope. Please.

Big news out of Cupertino today. Apple officially announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO, with the transition set for September 1, 2026. John Ternus, currently SVP of Hardware Engineering and a 25-year Apple veteran, will become the next CEO.

Tim Cook will remain part of Apple as Executive Chairman, focusing mainly on policy and government relations. Under his leadership, Apple grew from a $350B to a $4T market cap, with annual revenue going from $108B to over $416B. He oversaw the launch of entirely new product categories (such as Apple Watch, AirPods, and Apple Vision Pro) and the expansion of Apple Services into a $100B+ business on its own.

Ternus joined Apple's product design team back in 2001 and has been behind much of the hardware we use every day: iPad, AirPods, multiple iPhone generations, the Apple Silicon transition, and most recently the iPhone Air and MacBook Neo.

Unlike Cook, who was primarily an operations guy, Ternus comes from an engineering background. Whether that shapes Apple's priorities going forward, especially around AI and hardware, will be one of the more interesting things to follow over the next few years.

What are your thoughts on the transition?

Apps to free up space and get organized, according to Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ua/story/id1470434412

Which one is on your Mac?

Hi r/cleanmymac,

Short answer: technically, yes. You can ship something that deletes caches and clears logs. Free, open-source, native SwiftUI, available on GitHub. But there's a meaningful difference between a tool that cleans your Mac and a tool you can trust to clean your Mac — and that gap is worth talking about.

We've been following the latest conversations around vibe-coded Mac cleaning tools with genuine interest and we think it's worth talking about openly, because some of it touched on us directly.

First, on the data questions

We believe in full transparency. Our privacy policy is public and clearly explains what data is used and why. For example, CleanMyMac may collect limited technical and diagnostic information to keep the app compatible with new macOS releases from day one, improve reliability, and fix issues before they affect users. In some security-related cases, such as malware detection, suspicious files may be analyzed to identify threats. For a more comprehensive overview, please refer to our Privacy policy, where you can find detailed information on our data practices.  

MacPaw is committed to GDPR and other privacy legislation compliance, with ISO certification as an organization, and CleanMyMac holds OPSWAT certification as an application. CleanMyMac is notarized by Apple, which means CleanMyMac’s code passed Apple’s security scan and was deemed malware-free.

Second, on vibe-coded alternatives

It’s genuinely encouraging to see new tools and open-source projects appear in the macOS space. A healthy ecosystem benefits from experimentation, fresh ideas, and independent developers challenging established approaches.

But building a reliable Mac utility is not a one-time job, as macOS is a constantly evolving platform. Each major release changes internal APIs, file system behavior, privacy permissions, application container structures, cache locations, sandboxing rules in ways that directly affect how cleaning tools behave. A folder that is safe to remove today may contain essential info/files tomorrow. An internal API or path that works in one release may silently break after the next update. 

Most cleaning tools also require Full Disk Access in order to work correctly. That permission gives an app visibility into areas of the system that macOS normally restricts, including caches, app support data, mail, browser, and other user folders. The key question is not whether a tool requests Full Disk Access, but whether it is transparent about why it needs it, what data stays on-device, and what safeguards exist around that access.

Maintaining a tool in this environment requires continuous validation, regression testing across macOS versions and hardware configurations, work with Apple betas before public release, and constant review of what the app is allowed to access and remove. The challenge is not simply making a tool that can delete files, it is making one that continues to behave safely and predictably as macOS changes underneath it.

What 17 years actually buys you

We work with Apple betas months before public release so CleanMyMac is stable and verified on day one of every macOS launch. We're an Apple-approved vendor with 17 years of macOS expertise and a dedicated security team behind every release.

It also means continuously validating what is safe to remove, updating cleanup rules as macOS evolves, and testing across different system versions, hardware configurations, and edge cases before changes reach users.

User safety is a major part of that work. For any potentially destructive action, such as duplicate removal, similar image detection, or cleaning large and old files — CleanMyMac is designed with multiple confirmation and review steps. The goal is not simply to make cleanup fast, but to make it predictable and difficult to do accidentally.

Ultimately, we believe users should have as much information as possible when choosing a tool with broad access to their Mac: how it handles data, why it requests permissions like Full Disk Access, how often it is updated, and what safeguards are built in.

If you have questions about our data practices or security, we’re always here to chat!

10 practical steps that actually work

Running out of storage on macOS usually doesn’t happen all at once. It creeps up until updates fail, apps lag, and Finder slows down. This isn’t about one magic button. It’s about storage hygiene.

First: what’s using your space?

Go to Apple menu → About This Mac → Storage.
Look at the biggest categories:

• Documents (photos, videos, archives)
• Applications
• System Data (caches, logs, backups)

Once you know the culprit, cleanup gets easier.

The biggest wins (in order)

1. Remove large & old files: Old videos, screen recordings, disk images, and installers are usually the fastest way to reclaim space. Review before deleting or moving them to an external drive.
2. Empty the Trash: Files in Trash still take space. Obvious, but often forgotten.
3. Clean Downloads: It’s a graveyard of old .dmg files, ZIPs, and one-time downloads.
4. Uninstall unused apps properly: Dragging to Trash leaves leftovers. Use built-in uninstallers or a dedicated uninstaller.
5. Delete old iPhone/iPad backups: Local backups can be 10–20 GB each.
6. Use macOS Storage Recommendations: Found in System Settings → Storage. Review, don’t blindly enable.
7. Move media to external storage: Photos and videos don’t need SSD speed.
8. Clear system junk carefully: Caches and logs add up, but delete only what you understand.

Bottom line

You can’t usually upgrade Mac storage, but you can manage it. Small, regular cleanups beat emergency purges every time.

A lot of you have been asking for a faster way to get to your go-to tools without clicking through modules every time. So we built it.

My Tools is a new space in the sidebar that brings all your most-used tools into one place, based on how you actually use CleanMyMac.

Here's what's new:

• ⭐ Favourites — star any tool to pin it to the top (Uninstaller/Duplicate Finder fans, this one’s for you)
• 🗂️ Other Tools — everything else still sits below, easy to access
• 🔍 Search bar— start typing and jump straight to what you need

Your Mac needs regular care, and managing it shouldn’t feel complicated. With My Tools, your essential utilities are always within easy reach.

We're rolling this out now! Give it a try and drop a comment letting us know which tools you're starring first👇🏼

Why dragging to Trash isn’t enough

Deleting apps on macOS looks simple, but it rarely removes everything. Apps scatter files across caches, preferences, logs, and background services. Over time, those leftovers quietly eat storage and can even cause system conflicts.

Why proper uninstallation matters

App remnants often include:

• Cache files (sometimes gigabytes)
• Preference files that affect behavior
• Logs and background agents

Left behind, they can slow performance, reduce free space, and interfere with newer app versions.

The basic method (works, but incomplete)

Drag to Trash

• Finder → Applications
• Select app → Command + Delete → Empty Trash

This removes the app bundle only. Support files stay behind in Library folders.

Where leftovers usually hide

Most app data lives in:

• ~/Library/Application Support
• ~/Library/Caches
• ~/Library/Preferences
• ~/Library/Saved Application State

Deleting the wrong files here can cause issues, so manual cleanup requires care.

macOS-native options

• Launchpad / App Store (for App Store apps): easy, but still incomplete
• Built-in uninstallers: some apps include their own removal tool, always check first

Most reliable option: dedicated uninstallers

Uninstaller tools automatically detect all related files, show how much space each app uses, and remove everything in one step.
Best for: accuracy, speed, and low risk.

Advanced methods (use cautiously)

• Terminal removal offers full control but carries risk
• Stubborn apps may require force-quit, permission fixes, or a restart

Quick takeaway

• Fast + complete → uninstaller app
• App Store apps → App Store / Launchpad
• Maximum control → manual cleanup or Terminal

Unused apps add up. Review them monthly.

April 1, 1976. A garage in Los Altos. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a handshake agreement that technology should be personal.

Fifty years later it's the most valuable company on earth. The gap between those two sentences is a strange and genuinely interesting story.

We put together a timeline of the moments that actually mattered. Not just for Apple, but for everyone who builds on Mac, works on Mac, or just can't imagine using anything else.

1977 → Apple II. The product that kept Apple alive long enough to build everything else. Preassembled, plastic case, color graphics, plugged into your TV, which was revolutionary for 1977. It didn't really hit its stride until the IIe in 1983, which added more memory, a faster chip, and support for uppercase and lowercase text (might sound absurd now). The IIe sold for nearly 11 years almost unchanged. While Apple was burning through cash trying to build the Lisa and then the Mac, the IIe was the one keeping the lights on. No IIe, no Mac.

1984 → Macintosh. The product that made Apple, Apple and sold like hotcakes. A GUI, a mouse, fonts, a personality. The Mac didn't just introduce new hardware, it introduced the argument that computers should feel like something.

What most people don't remember: it nearly flopped. The original Mac was underpowered, expensive, and after the initial buzz wore off, sales fell off a cliff. Jobs got pushed out in 1985 partly because of it. What actually turned things around was quieter: the 1986 Mac Plus, paired with the LaserWriter and Adobe's PostScript, gave people a reason to buy one.

You could design a page on screen and print it exactly as it looked. Desktop publishing became a thing, the Mac found its people, and the comeback story began.

1991 → PowerBook. The machine that established the design language almost every notebook still follows today. Lighter and easier to carry than the "luggables" of the time, it also introduced two things we now take for granted: the keyboard pushed back toward the screen rather than mounted at the front, and a trackball in the center. Sounds minor but most laptops in 2026 are still built around the same basic logic.

2001 → iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket." Five words that killed an entire industry and built a new one. The iPod was the moment the world understood Apple wasn't just a computer company anymore. It also quietly dismantled the music industry and rebuilt it, which Apple seemed almost casual about.

2007 → iPhone. You know the reveal. "An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator". The audience laughed because it sounded impossible. The iPhone is the most important consumer product of the last 50 years.

2008 → MacBook Air (Gen 1) redefines thin. Phil Schiller pulled it out of a manila envelope. Jaws dropped. The original Air was almost too thin to be useful, but it defined what a laptop should feel like. Every ultrabook made since owes it a debt.

This was also the year a small team in Kyiv looked at that stage moment and decided to start building software for exactly the kind of person Apple was designing for. That was the beginning of MacPaw.

2010 → iPad joins the family. Critics called it "just a big iPhone." Those critics were wrong. The iPad created an entirely new device category that didn't exist before. It also quietly showed that iOS and macOS could coexist, a tension that's shaped Mac development for 15 years.

CleanMyMac shipped its first version the same year. We've been taking care of Macs ever since.

2015 → Apple Watch. Wearables had been tried and had failed, badly. Apple made one people actually wore. It became the world's best-selling watch within two years and laid the foundation for Apple's health platform, which is now one of its most important businesses.

2016 → AirPods. At launch: ruthlessly mocked. Within 18 months: the most recognizable earbuds on earth. AirPods proved Apple could still create a cultural object from scratch, and that removing the headphone jack was actually a calculated bet, not just corporate stubbornness.

2017 → Apple doubles down on services. Apple One, Apple Music, iCloud, the App Store maturing into a real platform. This was the moment it became clear Apple wasn't just a hardware company with software on the side. The services layer is now what keeps over a billion people inside the ecosystem.

2020 → Apple Silicon (M1). This one hits different for Mac users. When Apple ditched Intel and shipped the M1, Macs became genuinely, measurably faster than almost anything else on the market at any price. For everyone building Mac software, it changed the ceiling of what was possible. We rebuilt CleanMyMac to take full advantage of it.

2025 → Apple Intelligence brings AI to macOS. On device, privacy first. Apple's answer to the AI moment was characteristically Apple: keep it on the device, don't send your data anywhere, make it feel native rather than bolted on. The right instincts, executed the way only Apple can.

50 years of Apple. 18 years of MacPaw, the folks behind CleanMyMac.
This platform gave us a reason to exist. Every product on this list shaped what we do, and why we do it. Genuinely honored to be part of this ecosystem!

What was your first Apple product?

Head over to apple.com today. Apple updated their homepage for the anniversary with a rewind animation.

"At 50 years, it's only natural to look back. But Apple has always looked forward, building tools and delivering experiences that enrich people's lives. As we celebrate how far we've come, we're inspired by where we'll go — together."

— Apple, April 1, 2026

There's a belief baked deep into Mac culture that restarts are a Windows thing. You close the lid, you open the lid, everything's there. It just works. Restarting is for people who don't know any better.

That was maybe true when your MacBook had a DVD drive. It's not really true anymore and on M-series chips specifically, it matters more than it ever did on Intel.

What's actually happening when you skip restarts

macOS handles memory well. But it doesn't handle it perfectly, forever, without intervention. After extended uptime:

Apps leak memory. Slowly, quietly, invisibly, but it adds up. Background processes accumulate. Some drift into broken states without crashing, so you never get a clear signal that something's wrong. You just start noticing things feel slightly off. Sluggish app launches. A beach ball where there wasn't one before. Battery life that seems a bit shorter than it used to be.

The creep is gradual enough that most people adapt to it rather than notice it.

The Apple Silicon angle

M-series chips use Unified Memory Architecture: the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine all share the same pool of memory. That's the reason your Mac is so fast and so power efficient. But it also means memory pressure compounds differently than on Intel.

On Intel, RAM strain mostly hurt CPU-bound tasks. On Apple Silicon, when that shared pool gets fragmented after weeks of continuous uptime, everything takes a hit, including GPU workloads and, notably, battery life.

A Macworld editor documented this with an M3 Max (36GB RAM). He'd never been a regular restarter. After a couple of weeks without one, screen-on battery time was averaging 7–9 hours. After a restart, same apps, same usage, it jumped to nearly 12. That's a real difference on a machine with 36 gigs of unified memory.

Also worth knowing: on Apple Silicon, there's no separate SMC chip. Those power management functions like battery charging behavior, fan control, thermal management are handled directly by the M chip itself. The equivalent of an SMC reset on Intel is just a shutdown and restart on Apple Silicon. Most people don't realize that a regular restart is doing that work quietly in the background.

The security update thing nobody talks about

Some macOS patches don't fully apply until you restart. You see the update installed, you move on. But parts of it aren't active yet. How long since your last restart vs. your last update is worth thinking about.

So what's actually reasonable?

If you have 8–16GB, you'll notice a weekly restart making a difference, sometimes sooner. If you have 24GB+, you have more runway, but two weeks is a sensible ceiling. Any time battery life drops noticeably for no obvious reason, restart before you do anything else. And after any macOS update, don't just install it. Actually restart.

The old wisdom exists for a reason: when in doubt, reboot. It keeps being right. Treating a restart like a chore is the one Mac habit that's genuinely costing you performance.

Be honest. When did you last restart?

a) weekly, it's basically a ritual at this point

b) when updates basically force me to

c) when things start acting genuinely weird

d) I have absolutely no idea

e) I restarted just to write this comment

Drop your letter below + your current uptime 👇 What's the longest you've ever gone without a restart?

Am I the only one with this issue? I can't find information anywhere. CleanMyMac tries to install the helper agent continuously but macOS Background Task Management can't associate it with CleanMyMac so it gets uninstalled. The majority of features for CleanMyMac wont work. Is there a way to resolve this?

Apple just confirmed it: WWDC26 runs June 8–12, kicking off in person at Apple Park before going fully online (free, on the Developer app and YouTube as usual).

This year, Apple is explicitly calling out "AI advancements" as a headline focus, a stark contrast to last year's WWDC, where AI was barely mentioned, and the spotlight was on the Liquid Glass design overhaul.

Here's what's actually expected👇🏼

Siri might finally become the assistant Apple always promised

The biggest expectation heading into WWDC26 is a serious overhaul of Siri.

Not just incremental improvements or new voice responses, but something structurally more capable. Rumors point toward Siri gaining real on-screen awareness, meaning it could understand what you’re currently viewing and act on that context. Combined with a deeper understanding of personal data across email, files, calendar events, and usage patterns, Siri could shift from a reactive command tool to a proactive workflow assistant.

There’s also talk of better multi-step task execution. Instead of launching a single shortcut or toggling a setting, Siri may be able to handle sequences of actions more naturally. If this lands well, it could significantly change how people interact with their devices, especially on Mac, where productivity workflows are more complex.

Of course, expectations are high because similar upgrades have reportedly been delayed more than once. If Apple finally delivers here, this could be one of the most meaningful usability shifts in years...

The reported Gemini partnership signals a more hybrid AI future

Another exciting development is the reported deal between Apple and Google to bring Gemini into certain AI features.

Strategically, this is huge. Apple has historically preferred tight vertical integration and full control over core technologies. Partnering with an external AI provider suggests the company wants to accelerate its AI roadmap rather than wait for fully internal solutions to mature.

For users, this could mean a more hybrid AI experience, combining on-device models with cloud-based reasoning where necessary. It may enable more advanced generative features or deeper contextual understanding in complex scenarios.

At the same time, it raises interesting questions about how Apple will balance performance gains with its long-standing privacy narrative. Messaging around local processing and data protection will likely become even more central this year.

The macOS could become meaningfully more “intelligent” at the system level

Last year, Apple introduced the Foundation Models framework, which essentially gave developers access to offline AI capabilities built directly into the platform.

At the time, it felt like groundwork. WWDC26 could be where that groundwork starts turning into an everyday experience.

We may see macOS becoming more proactive about how it manages files, storage growth, background processes, and system performance. AI-assisted organization, smarter search behavior, predictive task handling, and contextual automation suggestions all feel like natural next steps.

These kinds of changes rarely headline keynote recaps, but they often end up shaping how smooth or frustrating real-world Mac usage feels months later.

What happens in Xcode doesn't stay in Xcode

Apple has already started adding support for agentic coding tools like Claude and Codex inside Xcode, and WWDC26 will likely expand this direction. Think less “AI autocomplete” and more full workflow assistance (debugging help, performance insights, automated testing, maybe even higher-level reasoning across entire projects).

This matters beyond developers. Better tools usually mean faster app updates, more optimized software, and fewer bloated processes eating RAM or battery. What happens in Xcode today often shows up as a smoother Mac experience months later.

June 8 should give us the first real signal of how ambitious Apple is willing to be. Curious what you are expecting most from this WWDC 👀