Hey community,
since I've upgraded to Ventura the contactsd process utilises about 300% CPU and nearly 400GB virtual memory, blocking my Air M2 to work properly. I've tried to find similar threads, but was not successful.
Any suggestions how to get to the bottom of the problem?
Cheers,
Mike
MacBook Air, macOS 13.0
After a day of (frustrating) troubleshooting it seems that the issue, for me at least, is the interaction between gmail 'contact' lists and my mac. For my multiple gmail accounts, if I turn 'on' (in apple settings for the gmail internet accounts) the 'contacts' for these accounts then contactsd goes through the roof. If I turn these contact lists off (and I log back into my Apple ID and turn all iCloud functionality back on, include contacts) I seem to have no issues. (As a side note, once these gmail contacts have been removed from my address book, there are only 20% of the contacts on my Mac iCloud contact list then on my iPhone, in both case not considering gmail contacts etc. I am hoping they repopulate and that is just a function of all the off and on troubleshooting I did today).
I had this issue too, i have a 2020 Macbook Pro i5 and contactsd was taking 90%-130% of CPU usage. After more than 6 months I've decided to just turn off all my contacts from the internet accounts settings and it works. The process isn't there anymore but the obvious downside is that none of my contacts are on my computer.
But at least I can use my computer normally again.
if you are on the OS beta program, file the bug ! ! ! otherwise in finder menu, Help, Send Finder Feedback
just be polite - there are real people reading this stuff and filing the reports, or adding One Mores to existing bugs. the more consistent the level of complaints, the more it will get on some one's radar to fix.
FWIW only one of my 3 machines is plagued by this : the newest M1 that had user account brought over from old machine. the other two don't seem to be as bad.
My troubleshooting steps so far:
What I observed:
Whenever MacOS makes use of "Contacts", e.g. opening System Settings will crawl through my contacts due to my AppleID, contactsd peaks for some seconds with massive load, blocking my system. I don't have recognised this behaviour with Mac OS 12.
Can contactsd be debugged any further?
I have had the same issue, however it has been around for some time and even persists through different Mac OSX versions. Sometime rebooting will make it go away for a while but it has always come back. I do also have google and apple contacts lists. I'll try turning off the google contacts and see if that helps.
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.
Thanks for the hints. I tried to send feedback via Finder, but I cannot see this help menu item? Maybe it's just available for beta testers? I am using the regular release version of macOS Ventura 13.1. Mine is not an M1 Macbook, I am still using the last generation before M1 (i.e. the last Intel MacBook Pro).
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
Hey leroydouglas,
thanks for the hints.
Yes, have rebooted multiple times since the upgrade, still the same. I'll follow the other advices and revert here if required.
Thanks,
Mike
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.
Same problems upgrading to Ventura 13.1
That's way worse than it was here. Clearly, Apple has some issues in this department.
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.
contactsd causing high CPU and memory usage
