How to Stop the Spinning Wheel on Your Mac
Your Mac hijacking your cursor and asking you to wait around is never welcome. People call it different things, including the spinning wheel, beachball, or pinwheel of death.
The good news is a spinning wheel means macOS hasn’t crashed completely. You might be able to wrestle back control.
What Is the Spinning Wheel of Death on a Mac?
That rainbow spinning wheel (whatever you might call it) is a common macOS wait cursor. It’s triggered when an application doesn’t respond for a few seconds and signals that you should wait before giving the app more instructions.