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
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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
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.
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.
..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