{"id":2662,"date":"2026-06-03T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:18:22","slug":"mac-beachballs-or-lagging-performance-ai-photo-scanning-may-be-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/mac-beachballs-or-lagging-performance-ai-photo-scanning-may-be-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac beachballs or lagging performance? AI photo scanning may be the reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Beachballs-or-lagging-Mac-AI-photo-scanning-may-be-the-reason.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some users are experiencing beachballs or lagging performance on their <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macs<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/macos-26-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">macOS 26.5<\/a>, and it seems the culprit may be <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> photo scanning in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High battery usage also appears to be an issue for some of those seeing these symptoms \u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some users are experiencing beachballs or lagging performance on their Macs on macOS 26.5, and it seems the ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}