Fans blowing and Mac slow performance: accountsd - accountsdaemon (CPU %%%%)

Hi,

CPU of accountsd more than ...% ?

If fans are going wild, out of the blue, intermittently, and if you see in activitymonitor.app "accountsd" taking up a lot of CPU, even more than your processor has got cores, try the following (this worked for me):

Accountsdaemon: a process connected to Internet Accounts

- Apple menu > system preferences > Internet Accounts >

uncheck all accounts (deactivate all accounts, do not delete them) except for Game Center

- Uncheck “Mail” at iCloud ;

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Sign out of Apple ID

Apple menu > System Preferences > Apple ID: overview “sign out”

(if 'spinning gear': ignore and shut down)

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Shutdown computer and reset NVRAM (Non Volatile Random Access Memory: short term memory)

Restart and activate Internet Mail Accounts. Check behaviour in Activity Monitor ("system processes)

PS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

> demons used to be invisible entities that did household chores, in the background - this demon (daemon) may have gone rogue)