![]() ![]() Hi! I'm Chris Gardner, Your Tech Coach giving you Practical Help for Your Digital Life® since 1996. I personally use CleanMyMac X on my Mac, and have found it to be a useful tool (along with the above built-in tools and capabilities) to keep my Mac lean and clean. That’s because Macs are generally less likely to suffer malware attacks, unless of course you surf the web indiscriminately or other unsafe online behavior. ![]() My previous recommendations in this space have been to use Malwarebytes Premium on your Windows 10/11 PC, but optional to use on a Mac. I try to keep my downloads folder empty.Īlso, I don’t bother to empty the trash, macOS handles this automatically as needed to save disk space. Use the Downloads folder as your “inbox” for files, then either move them to Documents, Music, Movies or Pictures (importing photos into the Photos app), or deleting them. ![]() Simple file hygiene on your part can help keep your Mac from getting cluttered up:.By the file or photo listing, look for the cloud icon. You can easily tell in Finder or the Photos app which files/photos are stored in the cloud and which actually exist on your computer. If you decide to purchase and use Cleanmymac, I would remove Malwarebytes – having multiple malware scanning tools can cause conflicts and system slowdowns. There is also a Setapp app ($10/month) that gives you lots of tools, but I consider that a pretty hefty price to pay.Gemini Photos (for your iPhone, $20/year) for finding duplicate photos in your Photos app and decluttering your iCloud Photos.Gemini 2 ($20/year) for finding duplicate files on your Mac’s hard drive.The software developer ( ) has other utilities that handle specialized utility functions, such as: The free versions are more limited.Įven though CleanMyMac is a general-purpose tool, it doesn’t do everything (which is a tad annoying). Both of these are subscription-fee apps, the paid versions provide full-time service. By contrast, CleanMyMac (current version X) is more a general-purpose optimization tool for the Mac that includes malware-prevention tools (in the paid version). If you’re using the paid version of Malwarebytes, you have an active scanner to prevent malware from getting on your Mac. With the addition of the new M1 malware detection, MacPaw has added another reason to consider trying out CleanMyMac X.CleanMyMac – not an advert: a reader asks… And, with only a few clicks, you can optimize your system, remove malware, and reclaim hard drive space. Every system optimization utility fits seamlessly into a single interface. Overall, the new CleanMyMac X 4.8.0 is a smooth and streamlined product. The Privacy tool also allowed the removal of all browsing history including tracking. We also tested a few familiar features in the interface like App Updater, which reduced updating all of our apps to two clicks, Mail Attachments, which removed local mail attachments that were duplicated on the cloud, and Large & Old Files, which allowed the removal of several forgotten product review MOV files. Space Lens, a utility made to provide a bird’s eye view of system storage, completed a full system index in 6.24 seconds. A full maintenance scan was completed in 23.14 seconds. CleanMyMac X 4.8.0 performed a full system scan of our 8GB/512GB Mac Mini M1 in a scant 25.76 seconds. Under-hood improvements also include optimization specific to the M1 chip. CleanMyMac X 4.8.0 now seeks out these unnecessary binaries and removes unnecessary code to reclaim this additional space. Unfortunately, that means unneeded code in these binaries is taking up valuable hard drive space. Because Big Sur is designed to run on both M1 and Intel chips, binaries for each chip architecture are included with every install. Universal Binaries help to dispose of unnecessary code shared by M1 and Intel macs. The redesigned interface looks very clean, and the 3D parallax animations provide just enough icon movement to show the app’s functions without being distracting.Īdditionally, MacPaw has included a feature called “Universal Binaries” in the System Junk module. MacPaw claims these features offer a more elegant overall user experience. This simplified UI design takes advantage of glass-like icons, 3D parallax animations, and interactive hover effects. These improvements include better overall performance, faster malware scan times, and speedier malware detection.ĬleanMyMac X 4.8.0 also sports a completely redesigned user interface. ![]() These new security features of CleanMyMac X 4.8.0 arrive alongside a cache of other improvements to the software. ![]()
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