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Apple Mail application takes a long time to open

Ever since migrating to the 14" MacBook Pro with M1 Max, Apple Mail app has taken around a full minute to launch, even on consecutive launches. I've tried reindexing the mail database, but this makes no difference. I can see some posts here in this forum about the topic, but those have gone unanswered. Anyone have ideas how to resolve this? The exact same mailboxes on the previous Intel machine with a quarter of the CPU started in seconds.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.4

Posted on May 17, 2022 9:39 PM

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Posted on May 18, 2022 1:44 AM

Has the user attempted the Safe Start of Apple Mail ?


With Apple Mail Closed, Shift and click the Apple Mail icon. It is sort of like a Safe Boot but only affect Apple Mail and Not the whole computer


If still having issue with Apple Mail see below


1 - Suggest restarting in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.


2 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.


3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?


4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.


5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.


6 - If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents  and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance.

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May 18, 2022 1:44 AM in response to Sulka

Has the user attempted the Safe Start of Apple Mail ?


With Apple Mail Closed, Shift and click the Apple Mail icon. It is sort of like a Safe Boot but only affect Apple Mail and Not the whole computer


If still having issue with Apple Mail see below


1 - Suggest restarting in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.


2 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.


3 - Does the issue present in this mode ?


4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.


5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.


6 - If after performing each of the above steps is the order that have been presents  and still have issues - please advise for possible further assistance.

Apple Mail application takes a long time to open

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