Is your Mac running painfully slowly? Has an application just hung? Did you see a “Your system has run out of application memory” message or the dreaded spinning beach ball? All of these can be signs ...

“Your system has run out of application memory” is not a warm, friendly alert. It feels cold and dark, as if your Mac is telling you “the end is nigh.” Luckily, the end isn’t nigh, but receiving this ...

The Monterey app memory leak affecting many Mac users is being blamed by some on a specific accessibility feature – but that isn’t the sole cause … Although the ...

Free app Memory Clean lets you monitor your Mac’s memory usage and will clean it automatically or when asked. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services.

Update 11/7: Since I wrote this column, several Macworld readers have reached out with similar issues on M1 MacBooks. Some readers have had luck with disabling extensions and other have suggested it’s ...

A number of Mac users are seeing an error message: “Your system has run out of application memory.” The error is caused by an app using gigabytes worth of memory ...

The amount of memory used on your Mac computer can fluctuate depending on how memory is being managed. The term "memory," as defined by Apple, includes RAM, virtual memory and swap files, which are ...

Grab the app in the Mac App Store while it’s free to get a gauge that lets you quickly access memory information, including which apps are using more than their fair share. Matt Elliott is a senior ...

Some users who recently upgraded to macOS Monterey are experiencing a bug known as a "memory leak," a scenario in which a specific macOS process or application is bugged out and stays running for ...

In an announcement posted to Apple's developer portal on Friday, the notified app makers that all Mac App Store submissions will soon be restricted from using garbage collection in favor of the ...