Accountsd Mac cpu is high

I have tried to logout my icloud. The accountsd is disappeared. But If I login again, it is stuck at the login in page, and accountsd comes up again eating up my memory and cpu.

I think you can logout icloud until Apple can come up with some fixes...

Starting to lose faith here..

problem started when using 10.15.6. more or less out of the blue, the only thing that might be a cause is that my exchange pasword was changed.

A combo update did not solve the problem.

Deselect mail and keychain from iCloud and logout/login (so not restart) solves the problem temporary, after a shutdown/restart it is there again.

I did not du the combo install, but just let it run, only took about 1.5-2 hours for my MacBook Pro from 2019, where I did not use its how ever it did peak around 700 % usage, but since then it has not have any problems.

I just has this issue appear for the second time. The first time, nothing would fix it. I tried resetting NVRAM/PRAM, resetting the SMC, safe boot, signing out of iCloud, and more... ended up having to restore from backup. Now it has happened again for the second time, and I’ve thing I have noticed is that both this time and last time, I had been in Windows 10 (bootcamp).

i don’t know what else to do but restore again from time machine. But I won’t be going into Windows for a while.

I've had the problem on two different macs in the last 72 hours, it's been fixed (so far) with the steps I posted previously.

1. Open terminal
2. cd ~/Library/Accounts
3.  mv Accounts4.sqlite Accounts4.sqlite.backup
4. Wait 30-60 seconds....this will cause a new Accounts4.sqlite file to be generated and you should see CPU return to normal
5. cp Accounts4.sqlite.backup Accounts4.sqlite

I didn't need to restart, nor reset PVRAM etc. This has (so far) fixed it for me on two macs (an iMac and a Mac Mini).

Note, if you have more than one user account on the mac then you need to repeat these steps when logged into each account.

Killing the "commerce" process when the "accountsd" is pumping seems to work.

... sometimes for a day and sometimes for 1 minute or less.

I had to force-quit Safari and kill that process 4 times in order to be able to post this message.

Not sure how this issue has not been already fixed by Apple...

Killing the commerce process (or any other solution presented here and elsewhere) didn’t work for me. I’ll be installing the OS and applications from scratch today only moving documents and the like from backup. Going to take forever, but oh well.

Thanks !

Installing the comboupdate worked for me (mac mini late 2012)

I am tracking the issue and have included all the current workarounds here.

https://mrmacintosh.com/catalina-10-15-7-update-accountsd-using-400-if-using-icloud-mail/

Did you switch off the "Find My..." option in the iCloud settings?

I am running Catalina 10.15.7 on a 15" MBP 2017. Same issue here with "accountsd". CPU between 300 - 500

What I recognize is, serious issues with Spotlight seems one of the bugs. It does not run well.

I signed out of the Apple ID. Rebooted the mac and it seems fine. As soon as I logged in to my apple id again, the accountsd startet to work again on 300 - 500% CPU.

Following steps have been done:

• Did Onyx (optimizing) twice, no changes. Including building new Spotlight-Index.
• Removed all mail / calendar accounts (which I am not using anyways since we're using outlook in the company)
• Installed the 10.15.7 Combo Update - No changes
• Removing / Disable iCloud Keychain; No changes

I have no clue how to fix that issue. I desperately need my MBP to work properly. Does someone have an advice for me that may helps? I am not an IT engineer. That's why I am using Mac since almost 15 years. C'mon apple, wtf is wrong with you?! fix that bug!

Regarding the theories about gmail, exchange or whatsoever being the culprit, in my case that is not the issue.

This happens on my daughter's MacBook pro which only has AppleID (mail, calendar) installed. No third party services involved.

I'm not sure if anyone else is reading this thread other than the poor people involved with this painful issue, which is not new by the way! Questions about this problem in earlier versions of this amazing OS are not hard to find.

It's probably best to send feedback with the type of bug report. https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

Maybe in this case they will notice that something amazing is happening downstairs.

Same issue here on a 2017 iMac. Issue started post upgrade to 10.15.7, before that was completely fine. Logging out of my Apple ID "fixes" the issue, but as soon as I log back in the CPU spikes back up again due to accountsd.

Is anyone at Apple actually following this thread?

It has 17K views... A Google search of pages containing both Accountsd and CPU returns 60.000 hits... I would be worried by now. On topic: I've logged out of iCloud on my Macbook pro 16" until this problem gets the attention from Apple that it deserves. So fat the CPU is behaving OK.