<Warning>: denied lookup: name = com.apple.contactsd.persistence, requestor = imagent[527], error = 159: Sandbox restriction

1dayumay wrote:

I see this repeated within console log reports, doing the same thing over and over again, impacting the device's performance.

There are no apps within Privacy & Security requesting access to Contacts. Any ideas what might be causing this?

Device details,

MacBook Pro

13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports

2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB

32 GB 3733 MHz LPDDR4X

14.6.1 (23G93)

2024-08-17 17:19:55.788470 (gui/501 [100002]) <Warning>: denied lookup: name = com.apple.contactsd.persistence, requestor = imagent[527], error = 159: Sandbox restriction

To trouble shoot further you can:

—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

Are the apple forums full of AI bots? Every time a user ask a very specific technical question you get this "copy and paste" answer for the same recovery actions since 20 years. Are here really no experts on the OS which know the content of log files? What about the programmers who created these logs?