Mac health
(Updated: )To give you a clear understanding of your Mac overall well-being, CleanMyMac provides a comprehensive assessment of its condition. For this, CleanMyMac evaluates a number of factors that impact performance, security, and cleanliness, including disk and battery health, potential threats, system load, and other hardware and system metrics. Based on this evaluation, CleanMyMac calculates a health score for your Mac.
To quickly check your Mac health, open the Menu and view the health monitor.
CleanMyMac also provides personalized suggestions based on the key metrics to help you with additional cleanup, optimization, and security measures. It will recommend tasks for you to complete or remind you of the need for regular maintenance.
To get more details on your Mac health, explore the recommendations to keep your Mac safe and effective, and to get tips on how to use CleanMyMac efficiently, open the app and go to Assistant.
Health score
CleanMyMac assigns a health score to your Mac, ranging from 'Excellent' to 'Critical', which reflects its current condition:
Excellent means that your Mac is doing great, though regular maintenance is recommended to keep it that way.
Good shows that your Mac is in good shape, but some maintenance can help it perform even better.
Fair indicates that your Mac is functioning well, but maintenance is advised to prevent future performance degradation.
Requires Attention implies that your Mac isn't performing optimally and maintenance is necessary to restore its condition.
Critical suggests that immediate action is required to bring your Mac back to normal operation.
Health factors
CleanMyMac evaluates several key factors when determining your Mac health score:
- Detected malware
- Critical disk health
- Critical battery health
- Low disk space
- Pending app updates
- Unused apps
- Overfilled Trash
- Long Mac uptime
Additionally, CleanMyMac considers if you've granted Full Disk Access, whether you've run Smart Care or a deep malware scan recently, if the Menu is turned off, if the real-time malware monitoring is turned off, and whether you haven't run its modules for a long time.
