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Issues with fan

Since last month my Mac book air 2018 started over heating even just searching staff with safari.when I close the browser the fan stops

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 23, 2021 3:43 AM

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Posted on Oct 23, 2021 4:49 AM

There may be clues you can monitor or effect changes by use of Activity Monitor in system utilities.


• Activity Monitor User Guide [Table of Contents] - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/toc


This can be useful to select runaway processes too; restart or shut them down.

A good range of what this can do, is available from the Table of Contents page.


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Oct 23, 2021 4:49 AM in response to Yuki00x

There may be clues you can monitor or effect changes by use of Activity Monitor in system utilities.


• Activity Monitor User Guide [Table of Contents] - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/toc


This can be useful to select runaway processes too; restart or shut them down.

A good range of what this can do, is available from the Table of Contents page.


Oct 23, 2021 4:11 PM in response to Yuki00x

..to revisit Q:

While this idea may help, to see where Sensors are; and adjust their range

to try & help cool the Mac better. The free version 'Macs Fan Control' works

fairly good in most versions of Mac hardware. You can choose from several

sensors in various locations, and adjust fan speeds. (Also: run fans Full Blast.)


• Macs Fan Control - Control Fans on Apple Macs | crystalidea

https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control


[A problem with certain MacBook Air models with cooling fans; as they had

not seemed adequate for fans within their design.. Somehow; inadequate.]


An inspection of the idea, led some to believe the 'heat sink' was not right.

Newer designs no longer use cooling hardware the same; some are fan-less.


Issues with fan

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