TextEdit freezing

MacBook Pro i9 (16-inch, 2019), 11.2.3 Big Sur. Definitely seems like it should have enough grunt to handle a 10MB text file, but not any more. Currently been sitting for a few mins at 100% CPU, lagging out my keyboard input in my browser, apparently due to the beachball twirling in my TextEdit window. I end up force-quitting it about once an hour.

The most frustrating part is that this was never an issue - just last year I would've opened gigabyte-sized genome fasta files or various other 100MB text files and scrolled through it with no issue. Was always impressed with how much better than Windows notepad it was.

Note that I've turned off all spell checking in preferences etc., so I don't think it's related to that.

Still happening to me too @ibwoo. This is just unacceptable. Don't know if anyone from Apple monitors this forum but sure hope so. How is this not a test scenario? It's a stinking text file!!! My brother word processor was more reliable. OUCH.

Same thing happening to me.

Ya know, I just don't care about 90% of the fancy cloud and device integration that Apple is committing to in recent OSs. I just want things to WORK. And TextEdit is the epitome of simple things that should simply work. If your OS can't support a basic text editor, what the h3ll good is it?

TextEdit spinning beach ball (will continue for hours until force-quit). Happens more or less daily, when I try to fix erroneous trackpad zoom-in in plain text documents. Various documents, generally under 200K. Started a month ago when I upgraded from 10 to 11.4. Running on 2017 MacAir. Irritating and fascinating: how would one break TextEdit?

I usually use TextEdit to author like text-only content, no rich text stuff involved whatsoever (Command-Shift-T). I'm in the process of applying for a new job and, as usual, I'd write everything locally, with TextEdit. We're not talking 50mb of data but a mere 100 lines of text. All I'm seeing now is the mf spinning ball of death. It took me hours to write those few lines. *** is going on?

Edit: Well, I had to force-quit TextEdit because. I paid over 3000 bucks for this machine and you guys really want to tell me that its not able to reliably handle a text editor in utf-8 mode with 100 lines of text, like, really? (the 100 lines are really only a guess, because I can't really check, can I, because the exact program that would low-key let me analyse my num of lines of my low-key input decided to go all rainbow-of-death on me but sure, ask me all about my unusual ways of leveraging jesus ******* TextEdit for my very kinky needs)

Imagine notepad hang on Windows. Such a simple application that can hang. Apple software quality these days are heading towards crap. It's used to be known to be reliable piece of thing, but now it's very much the opposite.

100% agreed. I just want to take some simple notes, including a couple of inline images, and Apple has managed to make this a major headache. Both Notes.app and TextEdit.app both hang endlessly every 5 minutes. I just want to jot down some notes and I'm spending half my time for my computer to decide it's finally ready for the apparently high-bandwidth technologically advanced task of letting my type or paste a .png into a document. All third party solutions are either huge apps that are overkill for jotting down a note (Word) or are walled gardens that both cost money and store info in proprietary formats (Evernote, Devonthink) or both.

Preview.app is incredibly slow and freezes randomly while trying to use it, too. Apple just can't get it right anymore.

After 35 years as a Mac specialist, I am beginning not to see the point of sticking with an OS that doesn't even provide a way for me to jot down notes or save simple rich text documents without spending a half hour troubleshooting and then finally just giving up without a solution. Useless. MacOS no longer allows me to be productive, it eats my time instead of saving it.

I have same textedit app is hanging not opening old documents or itself for new docs... please advise.

What is the point to ask if no one answers the question. It is obviously a big problem, and no one is fixing it. It is almost impossible to use textedit anymore, it used to be a great tool

It is much more important for the Apple leadership to drum on their woke political agenda than work on improving their OS