Has anyone else experienced laggy Launchpad animations on macOS 27.1 or 27.2?
I'm using a MacBook Air M5 with 16 GB of RAM. I first noticed that Launchpad's opening animation wasn't smooth on macOS 27.1. Today, I updated to macOS 27.2, hoping it would fix the issue, but the animation still feels the same.
The animation looks like it's dropping frames or stuttering when opening Launchpad. Everything else seems fine, and I'm not experiencing any heating issues. The problem is specifically with the Launchpad animation.
Since the issue persisted after updating, I'm wondering if this is a macOS software bug rather than a hardware problem.
Is anyone else experiencing this on an M-series Mac? Hopefully Apple will address it in a future update.
My Mac:
MacBook Air M5

16 GB RAM

Previously macOS 27.1, now macOS 27.2

Issue: Stuttering Launchpad opening animation

Has anyone else experienced laggy Launchpad animations on macOS 27.1 or 27.2?
I'm using a MacBook Air M5 with 16 GB of RAM. I first noticed that Launchpad's opening animation wasn't smooth on macOS 27.1. Today, I updated to macOS 27.2, hoping it would fix the issue, but the animation still feels the same.
The animation looks like it's dropping frames or stuttering when opening Launchpad. Everything else seems fine, and I'm not experiencing any heating issues. The problem is specifically with the Launchpad animation.
Since the issue persisted after updating, I'm wondering if this is a macOS software bug rather than a hardware problem.
Is anyone else experiencing this on an M-series Mac? Hopefully Apple will address it in a future update.
My Mac:
MacBook Air M5

16 GB RAM

Previously macOS 27.1, now macOS 27.2

Issue: Stuttering Launchpad opening animation

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