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Maybe the computer actually have a reason for working hard? Make sure you dont just kill a process that are doing something important. If you want, click on that process and force quit it. You should now see the name of the process that are using up your computers resources. Now click on where it says: %CPU to sort the list. When you open this app you should see something resembling the window you see above.

Activity MonitorĪctivity monitor is found in your Applications/Utilities folder. There can be other reasons for a MacBook Overheating, so keep reading below for more tips.

Unplug your other devices, or try to spread them out on different ports.įor more information about this particular topic, you can see this stackexchange thread.

Charge your MacBook Pro using the right side USB-C port.

A solution to this problem are the following. It could be caused by increased temperatures during charging. It seems like if your MacBook Pro runs hot or if you have a high CPU usage for kernel_task. Although I would take this with a little grain of salt, however we cant just ignore the reports about this. If you have one of the new USB-C equipped Macs this could help.

This first tip is new, and fresh from 2020. Also make sure to use the right Thunderbolt port when charging… (yes I know). MacBook overheating is often caused by software that stops responding.