Photoanalysisd using more than 100% of CPU

This shows as something I installed in activity monitor, but I don't see it and don't recall installing it. What is it? I just upgraded to 12.01

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Nov 6, 2021 12:48 PM

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Posted on Nov 8, 2021 9:31 PM

No, I am saying that it should have been there all along, at varying levels of activity depending on how much analysis there is to do on your photos and videos. Right after a system upgrade, Photos may need to apply new or revised analyses on your library; they can require a substantial amount of processing.


A process can show with more that 100% CPU usage because the usage is in percent of one CPU core, or one virtual core with hyper threading. Any Mac capable of running macOS 12 Monterey has multiple cores in its CPU. Most modern apps are capable on running multiple threads at the same time on multiple cores.

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Nov 8, 2021 9:31 PM in response to Jarmaracark

No, I am saying that it should have been there all along, at varying levels of activity depending on how much analysis there is to do on your photos and videos. Right after a system upgrade, Photos may need to apply new or revised analyses on your library; they can require a substantial amount of processing.


A process can show with more that 100% CPU usage because the usage is in percent of one CPU core, or one virtual core with hyper threading. Any Mac capable of running macOS 12 Monterey has multiple cores in its CPU. Most modern apps are capable on running multiple threads at the same time on multiple cores.

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Photoanalysisd using more than 100% of CPU

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