accountsd process is eating 500% cpu and making macbook pro 15,1 useless after Catalina 10.15.7 update.
Even if you force this process to quit it comes back at ~500% CPU and make lots os apps to hang.
I have tried to disable iCloud Mail integration and other suggestions related to "accountsd" that fixed this issue in previous Catalina versions but nothing worked.
Any suggestions?
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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
OK, so this worked for me.
CPU immediately went back to normal. Didn't need to logout out of Apple ID, or restart. Just that file rename did it. Thread here - https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/j05c8e/user_reports_show_that_macos_10157_clogs_up_the/
New day...opening my Catalina and paying attention to the fans (yesterday I have tried another potential fix with multiple kill commands as suggested in this forum). Fix worked yesterday throughout the entire day.
Guess what? Problem is back. That's so frustrating. A $2,500 piece of machine ruined by a crappy update.
It seems all remedies and workarounds suggested here fix the issue for a while but it returns one or two days later.
Looks like those fixes are just interrupting something buggy in iCloud account sync and, whatever its cycle be, next time it triggers a sync or any cloud process, the accountsd process gets crazy again.
This isn't funny Apple. Considering the number of reports here, different machines, different iCloud accounts, different Catalina versions, it it a serious bug that needs to be high priority.
Not all users are skilled to open Activity Monitor and note there is something going on in this process.
I bet most of ordinary users panic with crazy fans and bring their Apple computer to the store.
The usual "Plan-B" suggestion to reinstall MacOS is really a shame since if the accountsd process is faulty a reinstall won't fix it anyway. People will spend time visiting Apple stores, reinstalling their Catalina and, after a couple of days, problem returns.
Apple, let's fix this for good!
It seems that everything it's just a temporary relief from the problem!
In my case I reinstalled 10.15.7 from scratch last sunday and everything went well until this morning, when I found accountsd running at 500% of CPU usage.
I'm really baffled by Apple's behaviour (or better say "un-behaviour"): not a single official word about the issue. But I assume that's the new way: we've already paid. :-(
Right now I'm (we are...) stuck with a machine that's potentially about to become unusable in every moment. The only way to keep working is to keep an eye on the commerce process and the other eye on the CPU load and kill the first when the latter goes beyond 100%...
Any tip to wake up Apple?
I never thought I would live to see times when Windows is faster and more stable then macOS.
Problem appear with any reason. Just like that. It's related with your great Apple ID. DO SOMETHING WITH THAT! People pay a lot of money for your devices to work on it and can't because your quality control department since few year is a bunch of amateurs.
The problem with this issue is, that it disappears almost always after a reboot. So regardless what tool or action you take, if the last step is reboot, you are never sure if it was the tool or the action you took or the reboot that solved the issue. So for the moment everything is just guessing and as long as Apple does not do anything we are stuck.
This is just crazy... we are here talking about workarounds and so on and no solution is out yet.
Being also a Windows user I never saw something like this ... it’s not a security or whatever issue ... it’s just people trying to use their Mac with iCloud or Office 365 accounts ...
OMG
Oh, and I'm not an Apple fanboy. I'm a computer user from the early 1980s, having worked with DOS, Windows, and macOS, and having been a support engineer for WordPerfect. Apart from an iMac I still have a Windows 10 laptop, the CPU of which is taken over by anti-virus and anti-malware apps, allowing me to use 50% of its power for the tasks I want it to do. Every month I have two or three problems with it. If I have one problem with my iMac per year, I'm happy to logically conclude what is the best platform to use if you want to concentrate on working instead of on de-bugging.
It has been 5 years, but the problem still exists.
Something tells me that the reason for this time can be found.
Rockets fly into space several times, but if you update your computer, it can break.
This is definitely a good level.
I don't know what they have been observing for 5 years.
Perhaps they were looking at fire or water because nothing was done. :)
I googled and found messages that were 5 years old and in there people wrote about problems with this process.
I have tried that but after a while it comes back to 450-500% CPU and the notebook fan almost make it lift off.
Same problem with a brand new 13" MacBook Pro.
Fixed it by installing the combo update.
That worked for me!
thank you very much (macbook pro 16 2019)
I have the same issue from this morning. I updated yesterday. Can’t use my Mac mini anymore. This is crazy.
Do you have a link to this topic? I'm experiencing the same issue, and it just makes my laptop unusable.
Hello.
But what does that patch do? What is it about that patch that the updates released so far don't have? I have the OS with all the updates installed...
Regards.
I just upgraded to 10.15.7 and suddenly this exact same issue appears.
This becomes a major issue because it more less makes the mac book unusable.
Urgent help needed please!
Accountsd Mac cpu is high
