What is Imagent and sociallayerd in iCloud Drive

When I was looking through my iCloud Drive I came across Imagent and sociallayerd

Anyone know what it is?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Oct 4, 2021 3:37 PM

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Nov 7, 2021 11:45 PM in response to harryjjames

Dear harryjjames I had the exact same issue, with imagent, and on my iMac I signed out of my Apple ID by clicking System Preferences-Apple ID-Overview-Sign Out. A few moments later signed in again and it was gone. I'm not an expert by any means but to me it looked like a bug...

Hope it helps.

DanMan69

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Nov 3, 2021 12:23 PM in response to harryjjames

IMAgent is a process that listens for FaceTime invitations.

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