Performance & battery

Storage Studio is a background tidy-up tool with no deadline, so your work always comes first. Its background jobs give way whenever you're using your Mac, use only a share of what's free, and may take minutes rather than seconds — by design.

A performance mode sets how much of your Mac's spare capacity Storage Studio may use and how lively its windows are. Automatic, the default, adjusts by itself — easing off when your Mac is busy, warm or low on battery, and pausing background work under heavy load.

On battery, Storage Studio does less in the background and saves its heaviest work for when you're plugged in. It eases off further in Low Power Mode or when the battery runs low, and it only keeps your Mac awake for a backup when that's safe for the battery.

With Quiet Hours set to Smart and Pause during meetings on, Storage Studio holds its daily automatic run of your Rules while your camera or microphone is in use. It notices only that they're in use — nothing is recorded.

Check what Storage Studio is doing in Background Activity and which performance mode it's in, then choose a gentler mode or stop the job if you need to. If it isn't the cause, ask Tuhi — it can read your Mac's memory, processor load and temperature and tell you what's going on.