Timeline for Why is the accountsd process eating so much CPU?
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| Oct 5, 2020 at 7:48 | comment | added | Aad Mathijssen | Upgrading from 10.15.6 to 10.15.7 only resolved the problem temporarily, as it came back a few times since then. What I do now to, again temporarily, resolve the issue is signing out from Apple ID, restarting, and signing in again. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 13:33 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add Apple builds and updates for the fixes
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| Oct 1, 2020 at 14:44 | comment | added | Johnny Kutnowski | Just tried it with 10.15.7. Did not work for me. The moment I restarted it came back to 400% CPU. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 12:12 | comment | added | bmike♦ | This is very much confirmed that several steps can fix this and that internet accounts like google can trigger this as well as iCloud. apple.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3970/… | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 12:11 | history | edited | bmike♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add that some people get this, it’s not all iCloud. Also link to Mr. Macintosh blog
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 12:09 | comment | added | bmike♦ | I’m dropping a post notice on this. 1. Does 10.15.5 and newer have securityd taking cpu as well? Seems like a different issue if so. 2. This needs to explain passwords are lost. This procedure causes data loss - we should warn them? | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 12:07 | history | notice added | bmike♦ | Current event | |
| S Sep 30, 2020 at 11:34 | history | suggested | alper | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fix readability
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 9:22 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Sep 29, 2020 at 7:33 | comment | added | OrigamiEye | I made signing out of Apple ID it's own answer as it's less destructive than wiping all passwords and worked for me. | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 21:40 | comment | added | Tak | In my case, my Apple ID is the cause. This morning, accoundsd suddenly started using over 300% CPU. I deleted my local keychain & restarted iMac, but that's not solved. Then I happened to look at System Preferences > Apple ID, that said something like " (!) You should update Apple ID info". So I signed-out Apple ID, then, accoundsd's usage dropped to ZERO % CPU. That was super fast... | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 11:46 | comment | added | AlexHalkin | It worked for me as well. Thanks for your input. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 14:20 | comment | added | Andrew Hill | This worked for me this morning on OSX Catalina, 10.15.6. | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 1:08 | history | answered | YH Wu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |