Clean up your Mac

Too many files to sift through? Worse, is your Mac grinding to a halt? Let’s fix it!

Take care of your untidy Mac using our in–depth guide. You won’t have to sift through mountains of files and can begin filtering them the smart way.

We’re all guilty of it: saving files in a hurry and saying to ourselves we’ll tidy another time. Cut to several months later and those files are likely to be exactly where you left them. The longer you leave things, the more you accumulate, and the bigger the task of cleaning up gets.

With the ease of migrating from an old Mac to a new one, it’s easy to carry across years’ worth of cruft, up until the point you run out of storage space and your productivity grinds to a halt. You’ll soon discover there are plenty of ways to deal with that, using a mix of tools built in to macOS and third–party apps that provide a different perspective on what’s taking up space. You’ll also learn easy techniques useful for keeping any future chaos at bay.

Running out of space isn’t just a Mac problem, though. Your iPhone and iPad may need sorting out now and then, so we also have tips to get those devices in a good state — and stay that way.