contactsd causing high CPU and memory usage

I have installed Ventura in my Mac Mini 2012 with opencore and have this problem too.

For me the contactsd stoping using the CPU after disable contact sync in the google account.

System adjust->Internet accounts-> Google accout-> turn off Contacts. (For me the mouse can't work to select the account lists an I have used TAB key to hight light and space or enter to select then)

Eu instalei o Ventura no meu Mac Mini 2012 com o opencore e tive o mesmo problema.

Para mim o contactsd parou de usar a CPU depois de desabilitar o sincronismo de contatos do google.

Ajustes do sistema-> Contas de internet->conta do Google->desligar a opção de contatos. (No meu caso o mouse não estava clicando pra selecionar, então precisei o usar a tecla TAB para ir selecionando até chegar na opção desejada e então apertar a tecla espaço ou enter para selecionar)

Running MacOS 13.2.1 and constantly show contractsd as using 65% or more of my CPU

Has anyone ever figured this out any more that the current posts on this thread? In addition suggested is a big hog as well??

Any help will be appreciated, THanks

I have had the same issue as well on 4 Macs as well as my Iwatch ever since I upgraded to Ventura. i've called Apple Support many times and they try to tell me that Contactd is 'not' one of their processes. Wrong! I have found that turning off contacts the icloud sync in all the Internet Accounts alone does not solve the problem unless you also turn off the icloud sync for Freeform. The problem is that you can't see who your imessages are from unless you look at your phone. To manage contracts from multiple platforms I switched over to BusyContact as its easier to work with, but its not integrated to any of the Apple Apps. It's odd that Apple hasn't figured out and addressed this issue yet.

I even tried disabling sync between yahoo and microsoft account to trim my cumulative 2k to 1.5k contacts but to avail...

ps Ignore the last part of my above note. Contacts are repopulating.

Indeed turning off the contacts sync in the internet accounts calms the system down, I had two gmail account and a MS Exchange account where contacts were synchronizing.

I copied the Google contacts into the Apple contacts app and turned off the contacts sync in the Google account. That solved my issues

This works. Isn't a great solution if still using an android phone though. Thankfully I don't really use the contacts in any app so I could just turn off the contacts syncing.

Same problems upgrading to Ventura 13.1

Only solution is to turn iff contact sync for Google accounts. This also fixes high cpu usage of siriknowledged

Any idea how we can get this to the attention of Apple? This seems to be quite an issue. I definitely want to see my contacts synced with my Google accounts again. But the CPU spikes are unbearable.

weird. Finder ( or any apple app ) ->Help->Send {app} Feedback has always been there for me, but maybe they changed that recently. The link will work though.

For me the issue was resolved as soon as I turned off the Google accounts contacts.

Hi wellingtonlito. thank you very much for the advice.

it worked very well. Warmest regards