Accountsd Mac cpu is high

This problem does not yet have a clear solution, people have tried everything, but it still arises. On one of my macs (mac mini 2018) it has appeared twice with an interval of a couple of days, although on the other (macbook pro 15 2018) such a disaster has not yet been noticed.

In fact, a regular reboot also helps, but for how long... When your computer again gets hot from "accountsd", please write!

i'm not talking about a monopoly. I'm talking about client services. If a company notice that a lot of people have problems with CPU, accountsd etc etc...normally you should react....and not wait, until some clients get their own solutions.

Someone from Apple Support should log in here and read everything. Take some notices and informations, send an internal mail with high prio to the software developer and icloud teams and tell them: cupertino, we have a problem......

I have the same issue with accountsd on a MBP 2015 (w touchbar) and 10.15.7.

I've just about tried every fix I could find on the web (keychain reset, logging out and back in to iCloud, PRAM reset) but the issue kept coming back. Removing my Exchange account and disabling mail sync from iCloud so far it seems to prevent it from happening. Please Apple, fix this annoying bug.

Try this https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html (OnyX), it may fix your problem. Although as I see, many people talk about problems in mail accounts, try to disable them and see what happens...

I#m on MBP 16, Made the update to Catalina 10.15.7 via software update. Immediately I had 400-500% cpu accountsd. Killing commerce, logout iCloud and reboot did fix the 400-500% accountsd first. I#m in the process of calibrating the battery. So battery was to 0%, connected to usb-c power supply and suddenly the 400-500 % accountsd was back again. So log out iCloud does only help once. Did then install the combo update. This helped so far...I'm watching...

Apple, please provide a fix.

The only thing that stopped the issue on two of my macbook pros was logging out form the account in the "Music.app" (old Itunes App) (and killing "commerce" process in Activity Monitor). After logging out and closing the Music.app i waited for 10 minutes and re-logged in

Not this problem on my MBP 16" of 2019 10.15.7

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model ID: MacBookPro16.1

Processor name: 8-Core Intel Core i9

Processor speed: 2.3 GHz

Memory: 16 GB

the accountsd resource is 0%.

I also had accountsd consuming all CPU. I upgraded OS from 10.15.6 to 10.15.7 and the problem remained.

What helped was to shut the computer down completely and then turning it on again (not just restarting it).

1. Apple menu > "shut down"
2. restart

hope this helps

the KeyChain removal did not work for my imac late 2012

Yesterday it thought i solved it by removing my icloud-account and adding it again. And it worked flawless afterwards.

But now it's back again :(( really annoying.

Hi

I had the same issue and it seems like commerce service is the trigger. The solution for me was to quitting “commerce” process from activity monitor .. right after doing it the cpu load of accountsd goes down and after some minutes stabilise. Restarting the system will relaunch the commerce process , but it won’t trigger the accountsd to go crazy anymore :) hope this helps ;)

best

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process back to normal for now 24 hours hope it’s now definitely fixed, what I finally tried is :

1. remove my GMAIL account from Apple Mail app.
2. reboot .
3. when backup process stay normal usage ....
4. Configured m’y GMAIL account to Outlook .

seems stable now for more than 24 hours ...

NB on top of accountsd, Mail & Intego virus barrier was also using too many CPU.

since i « removed » GMAIl from Apple Mail and configured to Outlook , all the three listed process back to a normal CPU usage . Cross the fingers and hope definitely solved ...

Log out of Apple ID helps but is by no means a durable solution (at least for me) 24h after I logged in (I actually removed my account) the fans where back up. And 500% of CPU usage.

We did the trick for me at least was removing The contents of [User}/Library/Accounts

in my specific situation: Account4.sqlite, Accounts4.sqlite-shm, Accounts4.sqlite-wal

then all reverted back to normal

Same issue here, mpro 13 2020, accountsd gets to 500%, I did not notice it and my batter went to 15% in 40 minutes :D

Spotlight was not working at all, when I killed accountds then secd and mds started to catch up and load CPU as well. Reboot did not help, in fact CPU hit maximum right on login screen. When I closed mail app, it did not help, but it did become better after I removed a local keychain

 4995  cd ~/Library/Keychains
 4996  ls
 4997  rm -rf GUID

I've always trusted apple with latest updates, now my trust is gone. Give me one more ****** update and I quit your echosystem.

I was on Catalina 10.15.7 (19H), the "accountsd" process was consuming around 500 %, I shut down the computer, switched it on again and the problem was gone. As recommended here: https://mrmacintosh.com/catalina-10-15-7-update-accountsd-using-400-if-using-icloud-mail/

This worked well:

https://waal70blog.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/accountsd-and-secd-high-cpu-usage-on-catalina/

Go into ~/Library/Keychains and delete the folder that represents your local keychain (the folder will have a GUID-style name). Restart your Mac and all should be dandy. Please note, you MAY lose the convenience of having (some) saved passwords, requiring you to re-enter those.