Accountsd Mac cpu is high

Signing out of iCloud ( > System Preferences >  Apple ID) and then sign in to it again helped me to solve the problem.

4 days ago I logged out from Apple ID. 4 days without accountsd process going crazy.

Logged out my iCloud user on the Mac, restarted, and logged in again.

It seems its solved.

I installed the combo update before, but it didn't help.

Regards,

Same problem here.

I removed the game "GARDENSCAPES" and the problem was solved.

Fixed immediately by signing out of icloud.

Get you act together apple, my icloud account was new (ie just about empty) and only 1 card - now none.

Hello, if you already have 10.15.7 running, try only sign out iCloud.

Wait 3-5 minutes and all runs well again.

Now, sign in again. It worked on my mac.

I have just run the Onyx Maintenance tasks and after the reboot, the accountsd process seems to behave nicely again. No problems sinds for two weeks.

On Catalina 10.15.6 this has been causing HUGE pain as the computer becomes unresponsive even to keyboard or trackpad.

The root cause in my case seems to be a Ms Exchange account with Office365 that due company policies has to renew its password periodically. It´s incredible this issue is still not being fixed for over a year, in my case cpu goes 100% on all cores and eats the 32GB of RAM as soon as I boot the mac. My only fix was to use another computer to renew the password

Being a developer I figured it out, but for an average user this is total lock.

Apple seems more interested on making money selling more gadgets than fixing bugs on daily bread and butter features.

I had the same problem. Fixed it (for now?) using OnyX

https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Just select Maintenance, click on Run Tasks and wait until the reboot without doing anything with your Mac (and if you see the beach ball it's perfectly normal, just let it finish).

Be sure to download the latest version.

I have the same problem on my macbook pro and My mac pro 2019 both with 10.15.7 and also my battery is drained from then: accountsd process was using 500%CPU!

I fixed it with sudo killall -HUP accountsd

It seems to last but some other processes make a huge % of CPU.

Lastly I had to kill also pkd process which used 150% CPU.

OK, just a quick thing (A POSSIBLE WORKAROUND - could someone confirm it?)

I had the same problem with accountsd hogging the CPU, on 10.15.7.

Tried all the solutions I could Google but nothing helped.

What seems to helped in the end was:

• logout from Apple ID (if you can)
• reset
• Go to Apple ID (on the web) and remove the machine from the service
• reset
• add my Apple ID again (I was asked tons of passwords)
• reset

For now the accountsd process is silent and the Apple ID status in my settings is all green.

I rollback to version 10.15.6 through TimeMachine, I disable the iCloud account only for AppStore, and I stopped using Safari (only Chrome). After that, the problem was fixed (5 days ago and counting).

Please, Apple FIX THIS ISSUE asap.

I used to "use" Windows (right from version 3.0) - or should I say it was "using" me because it has always had a never-ending list of problems, a labyrinth of settings and options and tweaks that are all over the place where logic is replaced with insanity, and you could basically use 50% of your processing power and give away all the rest to anti-virus and anti-malware software.

The list of insane problems that still exist in Windows 10 is endless. Since I switched to Apple, Macs, and OS X in 2006, for the first time in my computing life, I could actually get some work done instead and drive the "car" instead of being its mechanic, constantly opening the hood and repairing the engine every second day.

The whole problem with Windows is that its code is based on something that was never meant to be used for "personal" computers but only for corporate business computing. In simple words: it's a car that needs a mechanic, not one that is happy with just a driver.

I am aware of the problem with accountsd since the 10.15.7 update and have solved it by using Onyx's Maintenance tasks taking care of the caches and cleaning up the basic applications - without any loss of data, without any re-occurrence of the problem, even after several reboots. Give it a try.

Logical steps to prove that you are wrong:

1. I used Onyx's Maintenance tasks - after which the applications automatically reboots the Mac.
2. The problem didn't come back - even after several reboots.

So it is not the reboot which solved the problem (because in my case and in many others it came actually back after every reboot) but Onyx.

And to those who have logged out of their iCloud account: log back in and uncheck the "Find My" option in the iCloud settings. That very often solves the problem also. If not, stay logged in into iCloud, and use Onyx's Maintenance tasks.

I had the same issue. The proposals here on this "helpdesk" don`t have fix the problem definitively.

I have resolve this issue in this way:

1. Secure your data.
2. Format C: (remember me to the windows word ;-)
3. Make a clean install of MacOSx.
4. Don`t use Apple Mail (I use MSOutlook)

From that time (about 2 Weeks) the problem don´t return again...

Maybe this is the only way at the moment....

PS: If many of us don`t use the Apple mail app, maybe Apple will react to fix the problem...