Local takes a minute to load (no add ons installed)

[bentalgad]

Bug Summary

The app takes a full minute to load and the ui works very slow. sites are fine.

Steps to reproduce

Open the app

Environment Info

Latest MacOs, latest local

Supporting info

Log:

Basicly the first one repeats it self a lot:
{“class”:“Process”,“level”:“warn”,“message”:“2025-07-06T11:06:23.195146Z 21619 [Warning] [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin mysql_native_password reported: ‘‘mysql_native_password’ is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use caching_sha2_password instead’”,“process”:“mysql”,“thread”:“main”,“timestamp”:“2025-07-06T11:06:23.196Z”}
{“class”:“Process”,“level”:“warn”,“message”:“2025-07-06T11:08:23.183938Z 21620 [Warning] [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin mysql_native_password reported: ‘‘mysql_native_password’ is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use caching_sha2_password instead’”,“process”:“mysql”,“thread”:“main”,“timestamp”:“2025-07-06T11:08:23.185Z”}
{“level”:“warn”,“linuxEdition”:null,“localChannel”:“stable”,“localVersion”:“9.2.4+6788”,“message”:“Electron Event ready”,“osArch”:“x64”,“osPlatform”:“darwin”,“osRelease”:“24.5.0”,“timestamp”:“2025-07-06T12:31:18.526Z”,“windowsEdition”:null}
{“eventId”:“871583923b6645bfa99b38465bef2789”,“level”:“warn”,“message”:“Unhandled Rejection.”,“p”:{},“reason”:{“message”:“network timeout at: https://cdn.localwp.com/stable/updates.json",“type”:“request-timeout”},“thread”:“main”,“timestamp”:"2025-07-06T12:31:23.521Z”}

[nickc]

Hi, @bentalgad. This could happen if you’re running the Intel version of Local on Apple Silicon.

If you’re on Apple Silicon, try downloading and installing the Apple Silicon version of Local instead:

https://localwp.com/releases/

If you then see a message about “missing Mailpit” after changing to the Apple Silicon version, try the fix here:

MailPit not starting On OSX

Thanks for sharing your sites.json, @sebastian. It looks correct to me. One thing you can try is to force Local to recopy the mailpit binary on startup (steps below assume macOS, Windows users reading this should follow these instructions instead). Stop any running sites. Quit Local. Open the Finder and choose Go → Go To Folder… Enter ~/Library/Application Support/Local/lightning-services and press Enter. Delete the folder named ‘mailpit-1.12.1+0’, but leave the Finder window open. Make sure …

[bentalgad]

Thanks you @nickc. before i try those, is there a way i can check if i’m running the intel version? (i am on apple silicon mac)

[nickc]

Here’s one easy way to check without having to launch Local:

1. Find Local in your Applications folder. (Command-click the icon in the dock.)
2. Right-click the application icon, choose “Get Info”.

You will either see “Application (Apple silicon)” or “Application (Intel)” under “Kind”.

[bentalgad]

Thanks. great. that’s the issue it is intel version installed. i will install the silicon version. thank you very much!