Stocks app launch automatically on my MacBook Pro

You probably have the Stock Widget running. Click the time in the menu bar to open the widgets and you can either remove the widget by right-clicking (Secondary click) or use the Edit Widgets button to remove it.

Yes! This is a pain in the arse! Apple -- please fix this.

I found this advice below (which did not work for me on my MacBook Pro M3 Max, running Sequoia 15.1). There is no "Stocks" option to turn on or off in this iCloud location they've directed us to.

Check stocks on iPhone - Apple Support

• Scroll down the page to the following:

View your watchlist across devices

On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then do one of the following:

• • macOS 10.15 or later: Click Apple ID, select iCloud, then turn on Stocks.
  • macOS 10.14 or earlier: Select iCloud, then turn on Stocks.

I'm having the same exact problem with my 2023 16 inch M2 MacBook Pro, throughout the day the Stocks app launches itself about 10 times to 12+ times a day and I'm always running out of memory even though I have my MacBook Pro computer configured to the highest memory available to the laptop. It's just annoying that it's using all my memory by launching itself multiple times throughout the day,this appears to be an issue for several people out there. I don't even use the Stocks app at all, I never have, I really need to find out what the problem is with this and why the app continually does this perpetually. I have to quit it over one dozen times a day. Minimum. This is incredibly annoying and bothersome.

This is super frustrating, and exactly what I am encountering. I like being able to look at stocks now or then on my iPad; maybe on my phone; I have no desire at all ever to run it as an advisor on my laptop, where I have the full range of web services to look at my brokerage and so on.

So yeah, I want it absolutely local no matter what and NOT TOUCHING iCloud. at all. period.

I checked the laptop, it's not in login items, and the only widgets I have are varied timezone trackers for my meeting colleague's timezones.

I run unrelated memory hungry apps and the notion that this is also potentially bleeding memory is infuriating. Just got a new machine, and Stocks being pushy makes it feel like...uh... a dirty sock. The lint won't go away!

Tom Karches wrote:

The issue is the CPU usage, not the memory usage.

If you do need want or need the Stocks Widget, then remove it from the Widget page. You will still see the process in Activity Monitor, but mine is using 0.0 CPU% after removing the widget. You can still open/close the Stocks App any time you want.

Click the time in the menu bar to open the widgets and you can either remove the widget by right-clicking (Secondary click) or use the Edit Widgets button to remove it.

There are two things you can do:

1 - If the Stocks app is open at the time of shutdown make sure this checkbox is not checked:

2 - make sure the Stocks app is not listed in the System/Users & Groups/Login Items settings pane:

Mark Drumz wrote:

I'm having the same exact problem with my 2023 16 inch M2 MacBook Pro, throughout the day the Stocks app launches itself about 10 times to 12+ times a day and I'm always running out of memory even though I have my MacBook Pro computer configured to the highest memory available to the laptop. It's just annoying that it's using all my memory by launching itself multiple times throughout the day,this appears to be an issue for several people out there. I don't even use the Stocks app at all, I never have, I really need to find out what the problem is with this and why the app continually does this perpetually. I have to quit it over one dozen times a day. Minimum. This is incredibly annoying and bothersome.

Did you read the post to delete the widget?

Here's a caveat to the above; another avenue to check. Solved my issue. Two devices/computers running on the same Apple ID. Computer #1 caused the Stocks app problem. It did have the Stock widget loaded, however the Stocks app did not login on its own, so I never noticed it. Computer #2 had no widgets loaded, however the Stocks app loaded at login regardless of it not being used, ever. That's why I couldn't solve the problem...until I checked both computers for the widgets and login items, and stopped it on both.

The “Stocks” application runs under these conditions:

1. The user has interacted with the application.

2. The user has added the “Stocks” application to the “login items.”

3. The “Stocks” application was open when the computer was shut down or restarted, and the user checked “reopen windows when logging back in.”

The “Stocks” widget may appear in the “Control Center” fly-out. Click on “Date/Time” on the desktop.

To remove the widget, control click / right-click it and select “Remove” from the submenu. 

The Stocks application itself can not be removed the the computer

It, like News, Music, TV, Podcasts, Freeform and others are Hard Coded into and part of the Operating System

Well, that's good to know, but my other application is CPU hungry too, so it really doesn't change my desire to be a bit OCD and only have items running that I asked the OS to run.

Literally, my wishlist is to be able to demand that a given built-in be silenced. I don't want to DELETE the Stocks app because there are days when I want to actively request that information. I do want to not have it in the background burning resources of any kind.

Tom Karches wrote:

The issue is the CPU usage, not the memory usage.

You may reconsider your above carefully, in the future

The User to whom I was replying to and I quote

OP wrote " I run unrelated memory hungry apps and the notion that this is also potentially bleeding memory is infuriating. "

Actually I fail to any mention of " CPU Usage "

Do you ?

Follow on

Check in Activity Monitor >> View All processes >> Memory category

The Stock Widget consumes 24.3 MB

The Stock Application about 67.3 MB

The issue is the CPU usage, not the memory usage.

Bravo and 👍