How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac - How-To Geek With that in mind, let's run through how to find the app in question, and how you can get rid of the spinning wheel A spinning wheel generally means macOS has detected a problem in a specific app The good news is it also means your entire system (including the OS) hasn't crashed
6 Ways to Stop or Get Rid of Mac Spinning Wheel (2025) - Fix The spinning rainbow wheel indicates your Mac is temporarily busy or struggling to respond Give it time to catch up before force quitting apps Force quit unresponsive apps using Command + Option + Escape if the wheel persists for over a minute This usually fixes the issue
How to stop the spinning rainbow wheel on Mac - MacPaw Click Remove If the rainbow wheel keeps rolling when you use the app again, reinstall it completely by selecting the app and clicking Uninstall Remember, simply moving the app to the Trash doesn’t do the trick since its leftover files remain on your hard drive
6 Ways to Get Rid of the Spinning Wheel on Mac - Dr. Buho Keep reading this blog to learn how to stop the pesky spinning wheel on your Mac Table Of Contents What Is the Spinning Wheel on Mac? Why Does the Mac Spinning Wheel Appear? How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac 1 Force Quit Apps; 2 Clear Disk Space; 3 Free Up RAM; 4 Reduce CPU Usage; 5 Restart Your Mac; 6 Repair Disk Permissions
How to Fix Spinning Wheel of Death in Mac? – WebNots Mac users frequently experiences that sinking feeling when the cursor gets frozen, and a rainbow-colored circle keeps spinning on the screen That rainbow wheel is called “Spinning Beach Ball of Death (SBBOD)”, and some users also call it “throbber” in technical term