overheating of MacBook Pro with macOS Tahoe 26

Hi, can you please share how did you downgrade to the previous macOS version. I have the same issue with Tahoe. My MacBook started running insanely hot for no good reason. Never had any issue with the previous version. I have an M1 Air and it was butter smooth and never got even remotely hot. Now nearly doing any work and I can feel how the laptop is getting ever hotter. Installing Tahoe was a huge mistake.

I need to roll back and never look at Tahoe again.

I have excatly same feeling, after upgraded to Tahoe, everytime I folded my laptop and took it with me, I can feel the HOT, which I never have this kind of feeling compared to the previous versions.

Not to mentioned the GPU usage all the time, even I applied the electron-based app workaround hack to lower the GPU usage. I still feel the heat generated by the laptop. Obviously, the battery usage was also increased.

BTW, I am using a M1 Max mbp with 64GB memory, pretty old, but at least it worked fine and cool in the old version.

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Same issue here on 14-inch, 2021 Macbook Pro (Apple M1 Pro, 32 GB memory). I have never heard the fan or getting hot before macOS Tahoe update. It's getting warm with only 20% CPU use!

I have got a crackling sound error too (https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1njk2wn/crackling_or_popping_sound_from_speakers_on_macos/).

Please fix these major issues. Thanks

I have never experienced overheating on my mac, not once, and I have owned a mac since 2020..and I have been using this mac air m1 for over 3 years...Perfect laptop in all regards, never had problems with speed or nothing, made switching from windows feel like a breath of fresh air using it..But now after a few days after updating, I can literally feel the heat burning through my skin..this without a doubt has to do with the update..We need a fix for this ASAP.

This has happened to me also. I'm writing to this on a HOT MacBook. I've had occasional problems, but not this dynamic. I don't have any insight except that it declines slightly when I close most of the apps. But that was never necessary previously.

I hope they send out a fix, to fix this.

fengchu wrote:

I have the M4 Pro as well, but my idle temperature is always over 55 °C.

Do you have any external monitors connected?

I get 2 monitors, one 21:9 and one 1080p, on all the time.

I'm guessing that cause of the issue.

Yes, my Mac is typically connected to a 5K:2K external display. That screenshot of the temps was taken on the external display.

Thank you for saying it! I am so sick of people online who act like you have personally insulted them when all you do is recount your own experience. And in my experience, Tahoe IS a massive downgrade. So much so that, for me, it is a final straw. I'm done with Apple.

I have this problem too. I had never heard the fan on my device before macOS 26. It really became like a hair dryer after I opened two simple doc in Ps. Please fix it.

MacOS Sequoia is in the App Store for those that need it:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-sequoia/id6596773750?mt=12

My MacBook M1 Pro is hot even when not used . Planning to roll back to previous macos version.

same model, same result

Can you walk me through how to "neuter" the Spotlight Search?