Photoshop is so laggy on my MacBook Pro 2019.

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March 30, 2026
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The spinning wheel appearing after every click and a massive delay when using tools like the brush or the eraser. Are there any possible fixes for these problems?

Note that I used to work on photoshop using this same laptop a couple of years ago and the experience was flawless, so I’m surprised that currently I’m almost not able to do anything without waiting for the loading.

I’m on the latest version of macOS running the latest version of photoshop.

mglush

Community Expert

Hi!

One of the things I have noticed on my machine—I also have the 2019 16” MacBook Pro—is that when it gets hot, it slows down to a crawl. What I have done as a work around is to keep an external fan blowing on the machine to cool it down. That is one thing that seems to be helping. The other is to close any programs or browsers running music or video, which also will speed up your machine. Having a video going while you are in Photoshop can heat up the machine and use ram and will slow it down.

If this helps, you may want to take your machine in to Apple and have them check your internal cooling fan to see if that is the main issue.

Michelle

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ExUSA

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As a data point, I am running Photoshop 27.4 on a 2019 16” MacBook Pro w/16GB of RAM, 4GB AMD Radeon Pro 5300M and Tahoe 26.4 without major issues. By far the slowest operation is Adobe Camera Raw running in Bridge. Photoshop runs fine without much lag or stalling.