{"id":2799,"date":"2026-07-20T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:15:19","slug":"mac-beach-balls-and-unresponsive-trackpad-this-fix-seems-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/mac-beach-balls-and-unresponsive-trackpad-this-fix-seems-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac beach balls and unresponsive trackpad? This fix seems to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Mac-beach-balls-and-unresponsive-trackpad.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been growing complaints about users experiencing beach balls on the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> when running <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/macos-26-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">macOS 26.5<\/a>, with some also saying that their trackpad becomes completely unresponsive for several seconds at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activity Monitor typically reveals three culprits, and there does now appear to be a reliable solution to the problem \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been growing complaints about users experiencing beach balls on the Mac when running macOS 26.5, with ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2801,"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\/2799"}],"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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}