contactsd is a top disk consumer in MacOs Ventura 13.3.1

I disabled Contacts sync for all accounts, iCloud, Outlook and Gmail. Didn't help -- a few days in and hundreds of gigabytes read in Activity Monitor.

A week ago I disabled "Contacts" results in Siri & Spotlight and contactsd has been sitting at 1.6MB ever since.

Hladkou wrote:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/471f04b7-8844-4f37-8043-defef8bc3627

I just cant imagine how many contacts have to be read for that amound of disk usage.

If third party Google Contacts is being used/synced try disabling and compare your results.

I *think* (fingers crossed) this may be fixed in MacOS Sonoma 14.4. At least - I was seeing "contactsd" permanently stuck at the top of the "Bytes Read" chart in Activity Monitor, with tens if not hundreds of GB (like the screenshot earlier in the thread). I don't use google contacts.

I upgraded to 14.4 this morning, and after 4 hours, contactsd is showing way down the list with only ~30MB of "Bytes Read".

Nick

edit - ah rats, I was looking at the "Bytes Written" column by mistake, which is 1.4GB (still lower than other processes though) so maybe it's not fixed it

I have this problem too, and I do not use google contacts, and all my software is up to date.