However, sometimes, the spinning wheel just doesn’t stop, or even the whole Mac is frozen. Sometimes, it’s lucky that the spinning wheel disappears soon, and your Mac gets back to normal in a few seconds. It is the colorful spinning wheel that takes place of your mouse cursor when an app or your whole Mac OS becomes unresponsive. If you are a Mac user, you may have not heard of the term spinning beach ball of death or spinning wait cursor, but when you see the picture below, you must find this rainbow pinwheel very familiar.Įxactly. When you think of the spinning wheel on Mac, you usually don’t think of good memories.