this can not be more annyoing...this is not what I wait of Apple, dealing with these kind of problems...
Reset your SMC, PRAM, make your discreet graphics main by switching off "automatic graphic", and still, it will keep lagging. If I connect external monitor, with "Automatic Graphics switching OFF", lagging is little better but not completely.
Even in text editors, typed keys are lagging behind. I am able to type few letters before it shows up in text editor. Is it related to some sort of excessive power saving? My Raspberry PI Linux is performing satisfactorily than this costly MBP.
Why isn't Apple even acknowledging this problem? Are they going to fix it or just shifted focus on M1 platform?
BTW, my MBP is just few weeks old, with fresh install.
MacBookPro 15 2016 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 2,9 GHz Memory: 16 GB
Same error here. Done the recommendations but it is still laggy, a little bit less. But still beach balling.
Someone wrote before me: remove the GOOGLE ACCOUNTS from System Preferances >>> Internet Accounts… and… it works for me! To be shure i reset the PRAM and SMC (did this only to be shure, like i said before).
I am waiting for you to write if you had the same result as me (elimination of the lag). Thanks!
Mouse regularly freezes for a millisecond and screens 'stutter'. Very annoying
I have the same issue. I have a Mac Book pro 13 inch, i am ready to throw it in the trash, I downloaded Big Sur and nothing works. 4 hours to download, another 2 hours before I could use it and even while typing this it is crazy hard because of the jumpyness and type disapearing. I am not super tech savy which is one of the reasons I went with Mac it was always so reliable. I don't know what to do this computer is not useable as is. I can not open or reply to an email. Also can not open about this mac???? I do not understand hope they can fix this
After update to MacOS 11.6 my Mac comes to life again, at least at the moment. Anybody can confirm also?
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 16". It had Catalina on it when I first got it, but I recently upgraded to Big Sur and was on 11.6.
I was having an issue and opted to reinstall Big Sur from scratch. I did that yesterday and made sure that 11.6 was installed with all available updates applied. Everything seemed fine yesterday, but I've noticed a lot of lag today. It seems to be largely dependent on the application.
My guess is some of the applications are making use of Metal and those are fine, but others are using a different framework and the performance is very poor. That's just an educated guess...I don't have anything scientific to back it up.
But the reality is I rebuilt and am seeing very poor video performance with a fresh instal of Big Sur 11.6. I was not having this issue prior to rebuilding the laptop.
This is very disappointing! At least I'm not alone in seeing this sort of behavior.
MBP 15' 2019
I intially noticed issues with my MBP connecting to external displays when it was not being charged. This was not big of a deal since normally I would have it being charged.
But here comes the real problem. Since Big Sur 11.6, I was not able to have stable and strong connectivity to my wifi network as well as full CPU performace.
I checked the latency and turns out that my MBP can't even keep up to a downloading speed of 300Kbps. Are you f**king kidding me? I'm a Korean and can't stand this type of lag while using the internet.
I also spent 4 hours trying to upload an app to the app store but could not succeed due to this outrage.
WHAT GOOD IS IT TO HAVE A MACBOOK PRO WHEN YOU HAVE AN OCTA-CORE CPU THAT WORKS LIKE SHIT AND WEAK WIFI CONNECTIVITY AS IF I WAS IN NORTH KOREA?
Be ashamed Apple.
I was having the same issue: MBP 16 i9, incredibly laggy when switching between applications, typing text would take a long time before accepting entries, finder was so slow I couldn’t seem to do anything meaningful without tremendous lag.
FIXED: After turning off “Allow wallpaper tinting in windows” (in System Preferences > General) everything was snappy again.
Same on my MacBookPro Late 2013. Hope to get an update soon.
Same here. I decided to update from Mojave to the latest one which is BigSur on my mid 2014 13inch 8 gb ram 256 gb ssd 2.6 GHz. My macbook pro was running just fine on mojave i was hesitating because of the 32 bit and 64 bit part however I decided I will go for it to see what Apple has done to the newer Softwares. This is a Big disappointment Sur. This was not expected of apple to release an OS which is incapable. I understand my macbook is 8 years old but this Big'headache'Sur is lagging worst than windows. Actually windows 10 runs better on it. Be careful old macbook users, this is not for old machines. Everything feels so glitched out. Thank Fully I don't have anything on my macbook so I can downgrade to Mojave whenever I want and thats what I am going to do. Its a long process but better than a bag full of lagged up Laptop. I love Apple I hope they send me a new Macbook as an apology because that sort of Apology is Approved by me.
If you are by any chance using "Turbo Boost Switcher", this is what caused the lag for me.
To solve it I did this:
The animations were not lagging anymore for me, I was able to replicate this 2 times. You can even start "Turbo Boost Switcher" again after going through those steps. But I don't know what actually causes the lags to start, because sometimes they come back.
Same here with my 16-inch 2019 macbook pro (2.3 Gh 8core i9, 16GB mem, Intel UHD 630 1536MB). I had no problems with lag associated with typing, clicking or mouse movement when I used Catalina. But once I upgraded to Big Sur, the lag is horrible and breaks my flow when trying to do anything.
Glad to hear other people have this issue. 16-inch MBP i9. Tried to have the apple store diagnose. Reinstalled all firmware and ran all the tests they have but they could find nothing wrong. Also have an M1 machine and a 2018 MBP 15-inch, neither of which have the lag issue.
Hey same problem, same computer. If anyone else has this, upgrading to Monterey worked like a dream! No more lag beyond just having only 8 gbs!
I was having the same issue on my iMac (Intel, 2019) after upgrading to Monterey. Lagging apps, UI issues, etc. I read Sherman13's solution of turning off the screensaver, and immediately after I turned that off, EVERYTHING sped back up to normal! No issues, lags or delays anymore. Nice and snappy again.
Finder was unusably sluggish since I upgraded to Big Sur. It took over a minute to open a Finder window. ActivityMonitor showed the Finder never went below 100% CPU usage. I tried all the tips I found here and elsewhere on the web, to no avail. To see whether the problem was connected to my user account, I created a Guest user account, and logged in as Guest. The CPU usage went below 4% and stayed there. Logging back into my own account, I closed all my applications, one by one, to no avail. Then I closed all my Finder windows (almost all of which had already been open in Catalina), and watched the CPU usage go down as each window closed.
Same! I tried to push the update as much forward as I could but many programs needed it.. After it everything is lagging and slow, the vent keeps regularly turning on and making a noise like my Macbook Pro is going to explode + everything freezes at that time. Also, some of my shortcuts stopped working eg cmd+c / cmd +v don't work in Finder, spotlight search isn't working anymore for Google Drive (where basically all my files are located), Photoshop barely works.. at first I couldn't even save things, edit windows were blank + some other weird stuff I didn't solve, Indesign crashes while saving large files ...and the list goes on. All those strange errors needed hours to be solved but some things I never did (luckily I can still use my other computer where I didn't make an update to use the programs that don't work). Basically I need to hire myself an IT guy to solve all this! I guess the best way to solve it is just quit using Apple. It's very hard, because I've been a Mac user almost 20 years but post Steve Jobs Apple really doesn't leave any other choice... really sad to see this kind of downfall. As a first step I just changed my phone to android during the last months :(
