What is AKAuthorizationRemoteViewService?

I know, this has been asked before, but there have not too many answers...


So: What is AKAuthorizationRemoteViewService (Safari)?


The monitor tells me it uses about 5% CPU time. This is not that much, but I'd rather know what for, because I never noticed this before.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Nov 20, 2022 5:23 AM

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Nov 20, 2022 8:02 AM in response to pommesdeluxe

Is see an " akd " processes twice in Activity Monitor >> View >> View All Processes


refer to below image




When I dig deeper into the actual Process


see copy and paste below


It looks to me that it is using certain Native Apple Frameworks connected various things including having more than one Tab Open in Safari


/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AuthKit.framework/Versions/A/Support/akd

/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.eEYvycxf

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.bundle/English.lproj/SystemVersion.strings

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-shm

/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/en.lproj/InfoPlist.strings

/private/var/db/timezone/tz/2022f.1.0/icutz/icutz44l.dat

/usr/share/icu/icudt70l.dat

/private/var/db/nsurlstoraged/dafsaData.bin

/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenDirectory.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CFOpenDirectory.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Localizable.loctable

/private/var/db/mds/messages/501/se_SecurityMessages

/private/var/db/analyticsd/events.allowlist

/private/var/folders/x2/zr7yhzq10pg03lr2p63hqwvm0000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv/com.apple.LaunchServices-4031-v2.csstore

/System/Library/Frameworks/CFNetwork.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Localizable.loctable

/dev/null

/dev/null

/dev/null

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-wal

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-shm

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-wal

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-wal

[ctl com.apple.netsrc id 6 unit 22]

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Application Support/com.apple.akd/authorization.db

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db

/Users/p.phillips/Library/Caches/com.apple.akd/Cache.db-wal


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What is AKAuthorizationRemoteViewService?

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