How to Keep Mac from Overheating

Table of Contents

• How to Keep Your Mac from Overheating
• Use Screen Corners to Put Display Into Sleep
• How to Reduce Chrome Memory Usage

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Series: Awesome Tips about Mac

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How to Keep Your Mac from Overheating

• Don’t wait to charge your mac till its power is too low.
• Close the lid to make Mac sleep as often as possible.
  • Enable and use Touch ID to quickly sign in again.
• Configure Mac to “Turn display off after x minutes” and “Put disk to sleep when possible” at Preferences -> Energy Saver
• Run less applications
  • Turn off auto startup programs at System Preferences -> Users & Groups-> Login Items
  • For some services like Docker, Jetbrains Toolbox, go to their preferences to uncheck Run at login
• Disable Siri
• Disable Dictation
  • com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond uses 960M+ memory.
• Delete Apps that you are not using nay more
  • As they may still start at login and run silently
• Configure the app to restore last session and kill apps aggressively
  • e.g. kill iTerm2 if not going to use it in next 5 mins.
  • In iTerm2: check Restore last windows after restart, same for Chrome etc.
• Don’t put it Mac directly upon your lap, put a book underneath, as MacBooks vent from the back edge

Use Screen Corners to Put Display Into Sleep

Go to System Preference -> Desktop & Screen Saver, at Screen Saver tab, click on hot corners, assign “Put Display Into Sleep” or “Start Screen Saver”.

• “Screen Saver” requires password to re-login.

How to Reduce Chrome Memory Usage

• Read here to learn how to free up Chrome’s memory usage and still stay productivity.
  • Use AdBlock, The Great Suspender, Chrome Vimium and Reader View
  • Cdm+Shift+A to suspend all tabs in current window, Cdm+Shift+R to open the current tab in Reader View.

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