What is the Mac spinning wheel? This rainbow-colored spinning wheel appears whenever an app on your Mac needs more time to perform a particular task and becomes unresponsive while doing it. Each app on your Mac has what’s known as a window server, a system process that helps an app communicate with your screen.
Why do I keep getting the color wheel on my Mac?
Install more RAM The spinning wheel of death can appear when your Mac is using virtual memory and the storage space is limited. The more physical RAM you have, the less your Mac will need to resort to virtual memory. So installing more RAM can fix the spinning color wheel problem.
What do you do with the spinning rainbow on a Mac?
To stop the spinning wheel on Mac, Force Quit the application that’s causing it or force restart your computer. You can also stop the spinning wheel by closing background apps you’re not using. If all else fails, you might need to contact Apple support for a fix.
