Catalina TextInputMenuAgent and Disnoted

After upgrading to Catalina macOS, I noticed a problem. The processes TextInputMenuAgent and disnoted starts to take like 90% of CPU and TextInputMenuAgent is not responding. Then, the mac starts to heat really fast and fans spin like crazy with only 1.4% CPU left idle. This issue happened at least twice today.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Oct 14, 2019 2:04 AM

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Posted on Dec 29, 2019 12:46 PM

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.

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Dec 20, 2019 7:37 AM in response to BambooOnFire

I didn't upgrade because I have heard that Catalina is very very unstable.


MacOS remind me to upgrade every day, and now It's OVER TWO MONTHS after the release of Catalina. so I upgrade to 10.15.2 from mojave today.


Now I meet this issue too.


I have searched Chinese forums, many people meet this issue too.


https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=1&tn=baidu&wd=Catalina%20textinputmenuagent&oq=macos%2520textinputmenuagent&rsv_pq=e34c3365000b7eb6&rsv_t=1222PKncWG1MbwVWHrO22H56pvGwNd6mGrXpZC9giuah1iipVk4qHN%2BgOiU&rqlang=cn&rsv_dl=tb&rsv_enter=1&inputT=307&rsv_sug3=15&rsv_sug2=0&rsv_sug4=486


Now the CPU fan is 90%+, the power is down quickly, the CPU fan is loud.


Please don't release unstable software. The trust of macOS / Apple software is being destroyed.


PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM.


Thanks,




Feb 2, 2020 5:55 PM in response to haonanfromchongqing

I just met this issue again with 10.15.3 when entering the desktop after recovering from deep sleep.


Another issue that 10.15.3 still cannot resolve is the occasional black screen when using an external 4K monitor.


One more issue is the high power consumption in deep sleep mode when power adapter is being connected, comparing to Mojave.


I already reset SMC & NVRAM after upgrading Catalina to 10.15.3.


All the issues go with Catalina. I never met them with Mojave on my 2018 MBP 13.


Disappointed and cannot believe Apple did such terrible software work!

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