Catalina TextInputMenuAgent and Disnoted

Interesting problem. In my case it appeared after activating the Chinese language handwriting mode for the Touch Bar. I wanted to use it for writing japanese Kanjis and it was the third language I had activated besides German and Japanese. After I deactivated the handwriting mode and only used the keyboard modes of German and Japanese, the problem didn't appear again.

Same here on Catalina 10.15.2. It must be related to second language input. I couldn't even remove the extra languages until I killed TextInputMenuAgent. Went away when I removed Russian and Greek.

Before I did that the battery was draining even when plugged in.

hey guys, I had that issue and it's been driven me crazy since I updated Catalina. I went to apple store and met an apple technician. He suggested to disable the second languages input and now it's been two days and the problem seems to be solved.

I'm not sure if you guys are using another languages on your Mac with input sources.

Good Evening,

I too have a Macbook Pro and have currently run Catalina.

I also had the same problems that you stated in your question.

I fixed this problem by going into activity monitor, clicking on "CPU", double clicked "TextInputMenuAgent" and "Disnoted" and force quitted both. The problems with the crazy fast and loud fans, excessive heat, and the battery dropping faster than usual very quickly resolved themselves, and now the computer works perfectly as a computer of this price should work :-)

I hope this helped.

Thanks

Try force quitting the offending process in Activity Monitor.

If it does it again, please run Etrecheck and post its report here.

Run Etrecheck and post its report here. Did you install “cleanmymac” or other “cleaner” or antivirus?

It looks removing then adding back again the Chinese input "Handwriting-Simplified" helps. Need more time to see if the issue comes back.

Hi Mate. You are right. the problem slows down every process, heat up the CPU and drain the battery for no reason. I disabled the multiple language inputs, problem still persist - more on Disnoted. I hate very much of keep doing the force quit things. Should you or anyone still want to enjoy the Catalina, without the problem (touching wood *smile), what I had suggested (roll back to Mojave, refresh, and upgrade to Catalina) works very well. Ever since, no such problem at all. Catalina has a lot more to offer, mate. Worth considering. advise to have at least a day off just to go through the process.

Try if you would like to use different languages input, just don’t show it on the menu bar.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the remote access applications. You seem to have philandro and cisco software. I am not familiar with those, but maybe they need to be updated. If there are no updates, perhaps you can try and see if uninstalling them helps.

I'd suggest you quit all inessential applications before letting the computer sleep in order to avoid impossibility to login and a forced restart when open the computer next time. I have observed higher frequency of this problem when WeChat is running, also I can relate one occurrence of such with VSCode. This will not solve the problem but can reduce the loss when it happens at login time. I have filed bug reports to apple but nothing has happened since. This problem is hard to reproduce and among the most difficult software bugs. If it has rendered your Mac unusable, it might be helpful to bootcamp windows. Or if you have any means to roll back to Mojave...

Same issue here. I use BetterTouchTool. Not sure if it's relevant.

Force to quit the process in Activity Monitor works. But this happened several times every day. Quite annoying...

same problem. I have to force quit these two process every time. but this happens to me like once in a several days. I've updated to 10.15.3. Seems this is still not fixed.

After I disabled language icon in the tray I don’t have any problems with logging in, but still need to kill TextInputMenuAgent every time. And I deleted WeChat. But this is temporary crutch, hope Apple fix it in the next update.

I removed this two applications and upgraded to 10.15.1, this problem still bothers me.

I have to manually kill this two process to cool down the cpu and fans.

Is there any way to solve this problem? or planning to put this issue on next os upgrade?