Accountsd Mac cpu is high

Got same issue several times with macOS 10.15.6 on MacBook Pro 13,1 2018.

Forcing the "commerce" process to quit seems to make the "accountsd" process to calm down on my side.

Looks like a bug.

M.

MBP 16 same with accountsd with 400& cpu. Read to kill commerce...did not fix it. Logged off from iCloud and reboot...seems that solved my problem. I will keep an eye on it.

This article helped me out to fix this problem, with the "Remove your iCloud Keychain" did the job!! thank you so much! acountsd is back to 0% after scary 500%... Regards from Mexico ;)

I had the same problem on imac 2019.

I resolved it by running sos in disk utility and reboot the imac.

Thanks ClassicII. Awesome. Maybe you could add the one that worked for me and a couple of others: Preferences -> Sign out ... It's a bummer to do this, but it makes the machine responsive again.

No MS OneDrive on my machine.

4 days ago, after 500% of CPU, I logged out from Apple ID. Reboot. Then 4 days without accountsd going crazy,

I signed out of my Apple ID, restarted, signed back in, and it seemed to work.

After 2 days, again the same problem. I decided to sign out iCloud until next macOS update. Until now not happen anymore.

Yes, you are right.

For me the only solution that persist even after reboot was sign out, and not re-sign in, my iCloud account.

Sorry, originally messed with multiple threads. Safe Mode did not help. In panic (as I desperately need to work) I tried multiple things simultaneously and either repairing disk permissions or switching off iCloud Keychain (needs patience) worked.

Had the same issue on a 2014 macbook pro. Catalina running accountsd at 200%, rendering the laptop unusable. Shutting down the wifi and turning it back on calmed the situation and accountsd now at about 50% cpu (which is still a ridiculous load for such a service, but the machine is now usable)

has anyone tried whether this issue has been experienced on the big sur public beta?

Had the same issue, the only thing that solved it is logging out and in fron appleID ...

Just go to `preferences > AppleID > Overview > disconnect`

And then reconnect from the same `overview` pane.

Thanks to all previous answers, thanks Apple for ... staying quiet ...

When I had this problem - accountsd = 400% - I did several things: close wifi, close Mail. (I don't have an active iCloud account). Immediately, accountsd jumped to 50%. Then I did some maintenance with OnyX. Result attached. I cannot certify that this process will be so positive for everyone.

Yesterday, killing the process once was enough to solve the problem for the day.

And today, it comes back each time I open Safari. Not sure why...

I'm only using Chorme at the moment.

Based on my research and what worked for me, here's the process I would follow:

1. In iCloud preferences, untick keychain and mail
2. Turn off the computer completely and turn it back on
3. You might try to log out of your Apple account completely and restart the computer
4. Close all apps
5. Kill the "commerce" process
6. Wait to see if "accountsd" goes back to normal.
7. Open the apps you need to use one by one to see if one of them is making the issue come back

Hope that helps someone :)

But that is just a temporary fix, expect the issue to come back the next day or after a moment :/

Then I know why it is taking Apple engineers long to come up with a solution: The problem cannot easily be reduced to one particular configuration or setting. A large number of people have been able to make it go away by making Onyx clean up the caches and some applications, and/or switch off the "Find My..." option in the iCloud settings. Pity it didn't work for you.