None of these are things that should need to be run on a regular basis and doing so is likely to cause more issues than it solves. The "maintenance tools" and "optimization" features of CleanMyMac seem like a mix of useless "snake oil" and stuff that can already be done in regular macOS.Also google an app for know issues, before installing it. Combine this with not downloading updates from random sites (use App Store / developer site / auto updater). Browsers are the typical way to get malware - an ad-blocker will (mostly) remove the risk of encountering malicious ads.Also consider not using antivirus, it can add more security issues than it solves, see this article for examples. I recommend something else than CleanMyMac if you want an antivirus that actual reviews decently.I personally never used uninstallers, as I'm familiar with where macOS stores stuff. AppCleaner is a free uninstaller app, that I've occasionally seen mentioned.One of the free or paid disk usage visualizers, see here for a list.The actually useful features could be replace by: ![]() In summary CleanMyMac comes with a bunch of features that temporarily reduce performance for no good reason. This is really only a feature useful for developers when benchmarking the "cold" startup performance of an app as part of optimizing app startup times. ![]() There is no point in doing this as macOS will turn inactive memory into free memory as needed, i.e. Note: "memory cleaners" basically do the same thing as the Terminal command purge, which flags all inactive memory as free, throwing away the files cached in inactive memory. Personally I wouldn't let the current version of CleanMyMac near a mac, it comes with a "memory cleaner" for goodness sake. I can only think of two exceptions - to get rid of caches from uninstalled apps and in the very rare case that the cache has been corrupted (I've never had to do the latter in ~20 years of using macOS). There really shouldn't be any reason to clean up caches. Let me guess you used CleanMyMac to clean up some cache files? So now Safari has to re-download or regenerate them, causing it to slow down.
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